book reviews Flur,~.csrctxc, and Phoaplio~~imet~ry a q a .\leaus of Chemical Analysis by Wehry and by JIcCarthy and Winefordner, respectively, arc both very thorough and well written. To this reviewer, i~rclusionof a chapter discnssing A Corrected Spectra Instrument of commercial manufacture without reference to, or comparison with other such instruments seems to add little to the book. A chapter by Kasha discusses several new aspects and intriguing aleas of molecular spectroscopy. The disrussion concerned with 1 a, transitions and with "vibrationally deficient molecules" will be of interest to both theoreticians and plact,itioners of molecular Inmineseenee. Theehapter by C. E. White, Fluorescent Metal Cholntes in Analyt,ical Clremislrv. discusses ~ r i m a r i l vnew chelat-
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of the ligand. Selected areas in which fluorescence is employed are discossed by a variety of authors: C. B. Moore, Laser Excited Vibrational Fluorescence and its Application to Vibratim-Vibration Energy Transfer in Gases; G. G. Guilbault, Kinetic Methods of Analysis; S. Udenfriend, G. Guroff, and P. Zaltsman-Nirenberg, Use of Fluorescence as a Probe into Mechanisms for Concentrative Transport of Amino Acids in Living Cells; R. F. Chen, Extrinsic and Intrinsic Fluorescence in the Study of Protein Stroctnve; and Govindjee, G. Papageorgiou, and E. Rabinuwitch, Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Photosynthesis.
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The increasing use of fluorescence techniques in biochemical and biophysical research is excellently illustrated in the last three chapters listed above. Guilbault includes, perhaps unnecessarily, a discussion of the theory pertaining to kinetic methods which could have been as easily referenced. However, the inclusion of advantages for fluorescence methods as compared to other detect,ion methods in kinetic studies are helpful as are the listing of fluorescence methods of analysis for various classes of enzymes. Three chapters concern topics which are externions of the tra.ditional concept of flnorescence: Fluorescence Polarization b y modulation Techniques, by W. Kaye and 11. West; Atomic Fluorescence Flame Spectrometry, by J. Winefordner and J. M. Mansfield; and Electrogeneratedchemiluminescence, by A. J. Bard, K. S. V. Santhenam, S. A. Crnser, and L. R. Faulkner. Winefordner has been largely responsible for t,he interest in atomic fluorescence flame spectrometry and this chapter is a n excellent and thorough review of the theoretieel and practical considerations of this relatively new area. The last chapter, Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence, reviews a very new topic and one which has received considerable attention in the last few years. This book was published within eight months of the symposium, and the authors, editor, and publisher rare to be congratulated, for providing this rapid dissemination of information. The book is easy to read and only afewerrors were apparent. To this reviewer, the cost of the book is high, perhaps in part due to the layout
used (25 lines per 9 inch page). "Fluorescence" deals with many interesting topics related to fluorescence a t a relatively advanced level. However, as expect,ed with a compendium of research papers, a novice in the field of fluorescence (or luminescence) will have a very diflicrllt, time gleaning from this book arlrwetH to elementary questions. T o workers already in the field and to individuals pursuing research in related areas, this book can be recommended strongly. DAYIDW. ELLIS Universily of New Hampshire Durham Chemical Proeerr Industries
R. Norris Shreue, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, Purdue versity. 3d ed. McGraw-Hill Comoanv. New York. March xvi / 91% pp. Figs. and tables. 24 cm. $18.50.
UniBook 1967. 17 X
In these days when emphasis is placed more on transport phenomena, kinetics and reactor design, and mathematical aspects of chemical engineering, it takes courage to undertake a major revision of an established boak which features the characteristics of industrial processes and their attendnut unit opelxtiona and unit processes. However, Dr. Shreve has done just that and, in so doing, has given the profession a. boak worthy of consideration as a text or reference in same eowse in all chemical engineering corricnla. (Conlinued on page A446)
book reviews \Vhilr 1 . l ~new crliliotr nf "Chemirnl Pt.occss Ind,~stries" ~.clninsthe fol.mnt of previous edit,ions, t,here has been n major revision of the text, material. l l o s l , if not all t,he chemicd process indnstry d o scriptions incarparnle new data on nse and eosl statistics in broad fovm, show the correlstiou of unit aperntions and m i t processes, and present energy, power, and raw material reqoirements. Many of t h e flow sheets have been revised and brought, up-to-date and are easier to read than those in previous editions. Throughout the book major emphasis is placed on the chemical conversions which are basic t o the indust,ry. Literdly thousmds of references are cit,ed, many a? late 3s 1006. Few if any readers will agree completely with the author on the space given or not. given to this or that pnrticulnr industry. For example, this reviewer feels i h a t t,he twent,y-eight pages devoted to The Petrochemienl Industry is not a t all indicative of its scope or relative importance. Nevert,heless, one earl only bo impressed wit,h both qrmntitative and qunlitnt,ive aspects of Dr. Shreve's overall preaent,ation. Some chapters have been condensed and combined; new chnplers have been added on such important and growing indus1,rie xs one finds in the nuclear, agrichemicd, petrochemical, and pharmace~~t,ical businewes. All other chapters have been thoroughly revised and lipdnt,ed.
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There is n u qnoslion but t,hat n copy of this t,hird edilion of "Chemical P~.occss 1ndui;tries" will be a worlh-while addition to the libmsy of st,rdertt, prnfessur, and cunsult,nnt. I t will not give anyono full infotmmtion about any industry hut i t gives mtich in lit,lle space-no words are wasted. Arleqrmte and up-to-date refel.. errces are given fnr those who want more dctnilcd infotmstian.
ftd dealer in chcrnical pmdurts, bnt ihc Iwo did not see eye t o eye, nnd some months Inlev the elder ITnber told his son: " C h 10 a w,iversit,y. You do not belong in l~~aines*." Aftev a sray a1 the Universit.y of Jenn, where he did not. implws his supel.im., he t t m s f e l x d t o Karlslrthe where he really began hi.; career. TIis st,udies of the elmking of oils led t,o his first bnok and habilitation as P~.ivntdnsent, ( = ~lnsalariedinsttuetor). He then took W. A. C O N N I N G H . ~11p physical chemical studies, a field in The Uniwsil?, of Texas which he was vil.tually self-taught though at Austin, 78719 eve~ltirallyhe became one of the t,wo lending physical chemisls (especially in elecThe Story of Fritz Haber trochemistry and thermodynamics) in Germany. The other was Walter Nemst, Mowis Goyan, Iloosevelt University, wibh whom he feuded until they both were Chicago. University of Oklahoma well along in yeam, when they decided t o Press, Norman, 3067. xi 212 pp. relinqnish w~chimmalure feelings. Habet. Photogr~phs. 14 X 21 em. $4.95. in time became head of the department. a t Karlsruhe and then in 1912 moved to This biography is most timely; Fritz Ilahlern, n srtbnrh of nerlin, whwc he Flabel. was horn a t Breslau on I)ecember!l, headed t,he newly created national vesenrch 1868. He was trained in chemistry at, institute. IIere he t ~ ~ r n eout d firnt-c1as.i va~.iousuniversities and in 1X!l1 t,oak his research and trained many physical doctorate 11nder Karl Liebemmnn, i.e., chemists. IIe was forced into exile in 1933 he was well grounded in organic ehemist,ry. hy t,he lliller regime and died in Swi1.mThough his thesis was excellent,, he harely land on Janmwy 20, 1934. passed the f i n d oral examination, showing This biogvaphy was written for the a vast igno~.nnee of physical rhemist,ry. genelxl public rather than fov chemists. His application t o entor Ostwsld's depart,. This is as it should he, heenne Haher wm ment a t Leipsig was inrned down. After also an ndminishatoi, soldier, eeonomi.;l, completing' his.rnilitnry service he t,ook a and poet. Ile lect,wed flnently in Freuch number of industl.inl pnsilions and also and English and was well aeqoainted with spent a semestgr. xl: Zurich where he lenmed al,out. teehvicnl chemist,ry. He (Continued on page A450) thuu went to work lov his fnthw, a sllrcess-
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