1. Professors Makluf Haddadin, who retired this year at age 85, and the late Costas Issidorides were exceptional organic chemistry teachers. Together, they discovered the Beirut reaction (see: Haddadin;M J Issidorides;Heterocycles,1976
2. Basking in the Shadow of a Great Chemist: Happy Times with Sir Derek Barton;S Z Zard;The Bartonian Legacy
3. The Art of the Soluble: Synthetic Problems from Industry as a Springboard for the Discovery of New Chemical Reactions. A Personal Account;S Z Zard;Synlett,2009