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city, while in the other arc procedures for the preparation of compounds of specific interest in many fields of organic chemistry. This trend toward an emphasis on the first category reflects the continuing development of new general synthetic methods in the current remarkable upsurge of synthetic organic chemistry. This volume contains
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Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 4th ed. I. M. Kolthoff, E. B. Sandell, E. J. Meehan, and Stanley Bruckenstein. xii + 1199 pages. Macmillan Co., 866 Third Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022. 1969. $14.95
This book is the fourth edition of an internationally renowned text which provides students with both theoretical and practical aspects of analytical chemistry, quantitative analysis, and instrumental analysis. This text is suitable for use in both elementary and advanced courses in analytical chemistry. It provides an excellent supplement for courses in chemical equilibria, optical methods of analysis, and electroanalytical chemistry. Advanced treatments of all types of chemical equilibria, errors, separations, precipitates, and other theoretical topics of analytical imThis
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Chemical Encyclopedia of Industrial Analysis, Vol. 8. Foster Dee Snell and Leslie S. Ettre, Editors, xvi + 737 pages. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Ave., New York, N. Y. 10016. 1969. $35.00 subscription, $45.00 single copy This volume of the Encyclopedia is devoted to industrial chemicals. The main entries are divided into four major groups: (1) Individual Compounds—certain compounds, by virtue of their commercial significance or the complexity of the analytical chemistry involved, have been selected as subjects of separate articles; (2) Elements and Their Compounds—these articles compile information related to the element itself, its alloys if any, and those compounds which do not warrant treatment in a separate article; (3) Compounds of Similar Chemical Structure—articles of this nature deal with organic compounds containing the same functional group; (4) Compounds with the Same End Use—articles in this category are intended to aid the analyst who is called
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Crystal Structures, 2nd ed. Vol. 6, Part 1. Ralph W. G. Wyckoff. viii + 455 pages. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Ave., New York, N. Y. 10016. 1969. $27.50
This sixth volume deals with the structure of benzene derivatives. The single volume that W'as given over to structures containing cyclic organic molecules in the loose-leaf edition of this book has been expanded into three volumes. This, the first of these volumes
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Handbook of Analytical Toxicology. Irving Sunshine, Editor, xiv + 1081 pages. The Chemical Rubber Co., 18901 Cranwood Parkway, Cleveland, Ohio 44128. 1969. $26.00
This handbook collates many data that are essential to scientists concerned with the analysis of drugs, economic poisons, industrial chemicals, and environmental hazards. In addition to collating the physical and chemical properties of drugs and chemical hazards, summaries of published methods for their detection in biological specimens are presented. The reader is given an insight into the analytical approach to the analysis of many compounds and a specific reference wherein the essential details can be found. The result of a quantitative analysis is usually interpreted by comparing it with
