tion counters (including differential and integral methods) and liquid scintillation counters. Radiochemical separation techniques considered are, precipitation methods, solvent extraction, chromatography, and ion exchange. Among t h e experiments dealing with radioisotopes in analytical, organic, and physical chemistry is a brief treatment of neutron activation analysis. The appendices include: (1) Constants and Conversion Factors, (2) Glossary of Symbols, (3) Glossary of Nuclear Terms, (4) Table of Exponential Functions, (5) List of Reference Books, Periodicals, and Annual Reviews. The earlier edition of this text was, everything considered, a clearly written and informative volume which was particularly useful to colleges and universities offering laboratory instruction in nuclear and radiochemistry courses. In this edition minor errors have been eliminated, the style smoothed out, and important additions made (for example, differential pulse height analysis). All in all Chase and Rabinowitz have done an admirable piece of work in the revision of this manual.
andysis by mema of radioactive isotopes and emissions; activation analysis. Each of these broad fields is discussed in an exceptionally clear manner; little mathematics is used and only where its inclusion is obligatory; exceptionally good diagrams are provided; data are assembled into tahles. References to the literature are adequate and include a number of languages. Though the titles of the Russian references are given in Cyrillic, the corresponding authors' names are printed in Roman and hence the nbstracts can be N n down without difficulty. No directions are given for carrying out the various analvses but the nperator should have no difficulty in devising a set of working procedures to fit the individual problems from the information provided by the text and the cited original articles. This is an excellent hook and can he recommended for practieine chemists and advanced studmts. The price is reasonable. RALPAE. OEGPER University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio
It is particularly gratifying to see that this gargantuan effort of Dr. Rodd and his coll~homtors,begun well over a decade ago, has proceeded on schedule to full and successful fruition. The painstaking editorial care which has gone into the preparation of these volumes is attested by the total of a mere 174 corrertions listed in the "Corrigenda" sheets which have accompanied the individual parts of Dr. Rodd's series. The sheet accompanying the present Volume 5 lists only 17 corrections to Volumes 4B and 4C. In past reviews of earlier volumes in this series [.I. CHEM. EDUC., 30, 158 (1953); 33, 416 (1956); 34, A242 (1957); 35, 582 (1958): . .. 37.. 163 (1960): . . . 38. 588 (1961)l this reviewer has exmessed unaualificd admiration for the welilorganized, infomative, well-documented and u p t o d a t e chapters in Dr. Rodd's volumes. The present volume deserves a full measure of similar praise. There is no question that the "Chemistry of Carbon Compounds" series will remain the outstanding mediumsized compilation of organic chemistry for many years to come. Sta7lford Uniuersity Stanford, California
DONALD S. ALLEN State University of New York Albany Chemistry of Carbon Compounds. Volume 5,Miscellaneour. General Index Radioaktive Isotope in der Analytirchen Chemie
L. M . Miehejeva and N . R. Michejeu (Moscow). Translated into German from Russian by Hermann Jaqer, Merseburg. Edited by Gisbert Grossmann, Technical University, Dresden. Akademie Verlag, East Berlin, 1962. 100 pp. Figs. and tables. 16.5 X 24 em. DM 13.0. Quantitative analysis has long since evolved beyond the stage a t which it employed only gravimetry, titrimetry, simple electrodeposition, and a few physical determinations such as density, refractive index, ete. Modern chemical analysis is eharrteteriaed by the catholicity of its procedures; it gladly accepts techniques from any source and skillfully adapts them to its own needs. "The development of individual fields in chemistry and physics constituted the impulse for the creation of modern electrochemical and optical analytical procedures. The present vigorous growth of physics and engineering oonfronts the analyst with new problems but a t the same time it provides him with a new aid-the radioactive isotopes." "This hook presents a study of the most important fields of application of radioisotopes and radiations in analytical chemistry." The principal topica included are treated in five main divisions. They are: determination of the solubility of slightly soluble compounds; copreeipitation processes and development of gravimetric andyticd methods employing radioactive isotopes; quantitative methods based on the use of radioactive isotopes; physical methods of quantitative
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H. This volume concludes Dr. . Rodd's comprehensive five volume series (actually ten separate books) on the "Chemistry of Carbon Compounds," publication of which was commenced in 1951. Organic chemists familiar with this serie-as by now all must be-will recall that Volume 1 (two parts) treated Aliphatic Compounds, Volume 2 (two parts) ALieyelie Compounds, Volume 3 (2 parts) Aromatic Compounds and Volume 4 (three parts) Heterocyclic Compounds. The present and final Volume 5 consists of four miscellaneous chapters plus a 679-page general index to the entire series, totalling well over 55,000 separate entries. All in all, the ten parts to the complete series comprise almost 6000 . pages of textual matter. Each separate part of the series, of course, has its own separate index, which totals over 670 pages far the first four volumes (nine parts). There is no Author Index to m y of the volumes in the series. The four miscellaneous chapters of the present volume treat the subjects of The Preparation and Use of Isotopically Li~belled Organic Compounds, Natural Acetylenic Compoundrr, Developments in Carbohydrate Chemistry and The Structure of Proteins. The content of the first two chapters is self-explanatory from the titlea. The last two ohapters bring up to date the material published in 1952 in Chapters XX, X X I and X X I I of Vohme 1B of the series, summarizing new developments in these fields during the last decade.
Advances in Organic Chemistry: Methods and Results. Volume 3 Edited by Ralph A . Raphael, Glasgow University. Scotland; Edward C . Taylor, Princeton University, Princeton, S e w Jersey; and Hans Wynberq, Gronigen University, The Netherlands. Interscience Publishers (a division of John Wiley and Sons, Ine.), New York, 1963. 333 pp. Figrr. and tables. vii 15.5 X 23.5 cm. $13.75.
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I t has been said that success in organic synthesis, a t least when a complex polyfunctional structure is the goal, lies largely in the management of "blocking groups." As the structure is elaborated, various reactive sites are "blocked" by simple reactions which convert them to unreactive iunctions from which the latent reactive sites can easily be liberated when needed. The challenge is to choose "blocking" or protective groups which can be installed or removed selectively. In view of the importance of this problem, it is remarkable that no comprehensive review of protective groups had been published. This gap is now amply filled by two chapters in the present volume: Protective Groups, by J. F. W. McOmie, and Selectively Removable Amino Protective Groups Used in the Synthesis of Peptides, by R. A. Boissonnas. These complementary articles are both well done, and will be of great value to the professor as background for lectures and to the graduate student studying for cumulative examinations, as well as to the synthetic chemist. D. M. Brown's chapter on Phosphorylstian is a critical and comprehensive review of an important subject. Despite the recent appearance of other reviews on the same topic, i t will have permanent value.
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