Bender (Northwestern), Saul Cohen (Brandeis), Fred Greene II (MIT), George Hammond (California Institute of Technology and then industry), Daniel Koshland, Jr. (University of California, Berkeley), John D. Roberts (California Institute of Technology), C. Gardner Swain (MIT), D. Stanley Tarbell (Vanderbilt), Nick Turro (Columbia), and Saul Winstein (University of California, Los Angeles). Although this list is extraordinary, the full list of his productive scientific offspring is even more so.

Koji Nakanishi, one of the great practitioners of chemical synthesis, spent a few years at Harvard, and although he didn't work directly with Bartlett, he reports in his autobiography the revelation of learning mechanism, and of hearing such terms as Ingold's S_N1 for the first time. He carried Bartlett's teaching around the world with him, specifically to Japan. Many of Bartlett's distinguished collaborators gave courses in advanced organic chemistry based on his “105” and spread his ideas far and wide. Actually, his teaching went farther, for many of his students and postdoctorals themselves had distinguished students and postdoctorals. These scientific grandchildren—his grandstudents, so to speak—continued, and continue, his tradition in physical-organic chemistry.

Bartlett published around 300 papers in chemistry, several of which broke exciting new ground, and many supplied critical support for ongoing theory. In 1939 he and Lawrence Knox published their epic research on bridgehead halogens. In particular, they synthesized 1-bromonorbornane and showed that halogen is essentially inert to hot strong alkali or to hot silver nitrate solution.