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pages. Cornell University Press, 124 Roberts Place, Ithaca, Ν. Υ. 1953. $9.75. Reviewed by F. MARSHALL BERINGER, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. HITAIN'S most eminent chemist in the Geld of mechanisms of organic chemical reactions has written a comprehensive, upto-date, critical, and indeed monumental survey of the paths by which ionic organic reactions proceed in solution. The first three chapters (valency and molecular structure, interactions between and within molecules, and physical prop erties of molecules) have much wellorganized material of interest to organic chemists and arc well illustrated by struc tural formulas, graphs, and tables. The reviewer found the chapter on the aro matic nucleus especially interesting for its historical perspective. In the chapter on classification of reagents and reactions, the definitions of nucleophilic and electrophilic reagents are so broad as to be in convenient, including as they do oxidants and reductants acting b y electron transfer. The reviewer prefers the recent definitions by C. Gardner Swain, in which nucleo philic and electrophilic are both terms for types of bond-forming reagents. It is in the next three chapters (electro philic aromatic substitution, nucleophilic aliphatic substitution, and olefin-forming eliminations) that the extensive research contributions of Prof. Ingold and his co workers stand out. For example, the de tailed mechanisms of aromatic nitration were brilliantly worked out by this group, and the story is well told here. As a per sonal preference, in the discussion of elec trophilic aromatic substitution, the re viewer would have liked to see the transi tion state considered more fully, in con junction with energies and entropies of activation. The author might then have approached the problem of the influence of substituents by considering the different ways in which they affect the energies and entropies of the ground and transition states. Also, in the chapter on nucleo philic aliphatic substitutions, a fuller treat ment might have been accorded the con tributions of H. C. Brown dealing with steric effects. The three stimulating chapters on re arrangements should dispose finally of the aura of abnormality that has clung to these interesting reactions ever since they con fused our chemical forefathers last cen tury. The final chapters (additions and their retrogression, acids and bases, carboxy 1 reactions, and nucleophilic aromatic substitution) are competent and modern in treatment. Prof. Ingold uses the 3ritish symbols I, M, T, and Ε to describe various elec tronic effects. Putting aside the temporary frustration of seeing an effect described as —I, -|-T when one has forgotten the
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