BOOK REVIEWS cal information for the student me omitted. In place of this information, the reader will find a presentation of the difficulties experienced in refining the quitntitative measurement by this method. For most chemists little will he gained from the volume. For those interested in such topics as spectra-structure oorrelations, procedures and methods, and theoretical details, other works offer a far more detailed presentation. This reviewer can foresee a t best limited utility for this volume in the field. It is unfortunate that the beginner in infrared will find only the survey of laboratory techniques and basic principles of tangible educational value.
pletely rewritten and updated version of the first version which was published in 1924. I n this Dover reprint of the third edition a new preface cites pertinent references through 1962.
J. V. D.
Organic Functional Group Analysis b y Micro and Semimicro Methods
Nicholas D. Chwonis (deceased) and T. S. Ma, both of Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Interscience Publishers (a division of John Wiley and Sons, Inc.), New York, 1964. xnr 696 pp. Figs. and tables. 16 X 23.5 cm. $25.
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The appearrtnce of a hook whioh includes the wards "Mioro and Semimicro Methods" in the title always throws a shock through the academic world. Most academicians look upon micro analysis as being elemental organic analysis and The Solubility of Noneleclrolytes nothing more. This volume, written by the late Nicholas D. Cheronis and his Joel H. Hildebrand, University of Calicolleague, T. S. Ma, provides s. working fornia, Berkeley, and Robert L. Scott, demonstration that micro analysis is University of California, Los Angeles. nothing more than regular chemical 3rd ed. Dover Publications, Inc., analysis carried out on a reduced scale. New York, 1964. xiv 488 pp. Figs. From this point of view, the structure and tables. 14 X 21 cm. Paperof the hook is most interesting. Pert bound. $2.50. one is devoted to the principles and techniques of micro analysis. It includes The third edition of this basic work, a discussion of the classification and originally published as an ACS Monagraph was reviewed in TEIS JOURNAL, limitations of analytical methods as well as a discussion of the chemical bases for 29, 51 (1952). That volllme was a comROBERT T. CONLEY Seton Hall University South Orange, N m Jersey
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organic functional group analysis p r e sented in the form of tables. This method for the presentation of general summaries of extensive amounts of infarmation is useful as well as being concise. As is predictable, the methods include neutralization, oxidation-reduction, p r e cipit~tion titratians, spectrophotometry, and measurements of gases and water. There is very little to distinguish between aqueous and nanaqueaus methodologies. As would he expected, influences of moleoular structure on kinetics, reaction rates, and catalysis are emphasized where analytical effects are found. Part two is a. critical survey of anelyticrtl methods for the determination of organic functional groups on a. micro scale. The major parts are devoted to oxygen functions, nitrogen functions, sulfur functions, unsaturatian, and miscellaneous functional groups. Anyone reading the discussions in this part will become aware of the tremendous expanse of knowledge which bas been reviewed. Any student who can discuss all of the chemistry given here is extremely well informed and should he able to handle most problems which arise in connection with the analysis of organic mixtures in the lnharatary. Pert three includes 12 determinations with milligram samples using ordinary everyday hbborstary equipment and 13 determinations using milligram samples but with special apparatus of one kind or another. The selection of experiments will he very good for use in a. teaching laboratory but will leave something to be (Continued on page AS.%)
BOOK REVIEWS desired for a general andytical laboratory. There are several features in this book that make its presence in an snalytieal laboratory extremely desirable in spite of the $25. price. In the first place, it has 33 pages of subject index which provides easy access to all information in the volume. In the second place, not only the analytical detail but also the background of each method is precisely discussed so that understanding is simple. In the third place, while this book is described as being micro and semimicro methodology, the subject matter content is functional group l~nalysisin general. Finally, this book clearly demonstrates that the limitation of sample size is an artificial barrier. This book is recommended for all laboratories doing organic analysis and for laborstories in which students are receiving i n s t ~ c t i o nin organic chemistry or in analytical chemistry.
G. STONE KENNETH Michigan Slate Ufiivmsity East Lansing
Introduction to Infrared and Raman Spechoscopy
Norman B. Colthup, American Cganamid Co., Stanford, Connecticut, Law rence H. Daly, State University of New
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York, Albany, and Stepha E. Wiberky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Academic Prwa. Inr.. 511 pp: Figs: New York, 1964. xu and table. 16 X 23.5 cm. $12.
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The biggest section in our personal scientific library at the present is the spectral collection. The number of hooks on infrared alone has jumped from two in 1958 (West and Bellemy) to about a dozen (Potts, Rso, Allen and Cross, White, Davies, Thompson, Szymanski-2, Conn and Avery, Flett, Nekanishi and Cross). In addition, we resort to other books of a. general nature such as the "Advances in Spectroscopy" series and the work by Bauman. Undoubtedly, this need for reference works is typical and is stimulated by our desire as an infrared user to keep up with the phenomenal increase in both the theoretical and applied published liters, tme. Selected reviews by Gore and Evans published biennially in Analytical Cham istry tend to run to several hundred items abstrscted from the literature. The total number of spectroscopic references now runs into the many thousands each year. Users of infrared must also resort to spectral reference collections containing up to 50,000 items u,ith more to came. The increasing availability of high performance grating spectrophatometers and current developments in Laser-&an instrumentation are stimulating an output of higher quality work employing integrated absorption intensities and tlocurete frequency measurement?. A greater em-
phasis is now placed on detailed analysis and interpretation and correlation with theory. Hence the need for a lerge spectral library in laboratories depending on infrared analysis. It is perhaps necessary for a reviewer to classify a book on infrared as elementary, intermediate introductory, intermediate or ildvmced. Many of the introductory iufrared texts such as the book under review have a common plan of organization as shown by comparison of tables of contents. These are an introduction, a review of technique and instrumentation, theoretical discussion, and spectrastructure correlations. Since, in spite of the rapid growth in infrared techniques in the last ten years, the work of Jones and Sandarfy and of Bellemy has dated very little and Hemberg is still a foundation work for theoreticsl analysis, it behooves the reviewer to carefully consider the relative merits and justifice tions for new introductory texts. The "Introduction" of Calthup, Daly, and Wiberley is s. worthwhile addition to the spectral library and is also a good choice for teachers, students and chemists who wish to become acquRjnted with either theoretical or applied analysis of molecnles by infrared spectroscopy. Chapters 1, 3, 14 and 15 (vibrational and rotational spectra, classification of molecules, the theoretical analysis of molecules and the ealcnlstion of thermodynamic functions) may be read as a group for the pwposes af an introduction to molecular infrared spectroscopy. (Continued on page ASS41
