book reviews mntiol~nlminlysis via nmr (15-3). These are not sufirient,, however, to ~.ecommend this book. A decent breat,ment of "chemical dynamics" can be given s t the freshman level; in our own introductory course, we build on the physics that the student,^ have had to give a proper, though elementary treatment of kinetic theory and molecular-beam kinematics, and then go on t,o discuss chemical kinet,ics from bhis basis. The t,ext to go with this subject material, we feel, still remains l o be wribten. ~assaehusttts~~nslitl~te qf Tcchnolog?l Boston Problems in Advanced Organic Chemistry
Toshio Ooto and Y . Hirata, both of Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan and George H . Stout, University of Washington, Seattle. Holden-Day, San Fran328 pp. Figs. cisco, 1968. viii and tables. 19 X 25.5 em. $9.75.
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This is an unusual hook which provides advanced students in organic chemistry with a. set of practice problem3 complete with answers. With the exception of a few (good) introductory questions, they are of the order of complexity of those found on graduate cumulative exams or "preliminary" examinat,ians. The great majority are drawn from the literature
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and references are aiven. Because the answers me, in my- opinion, unusually complete, this hook should be immensely valuahle for self-studv " bv " all eraduate students in organic chemistry or the exceptional senior. Although there are nominally 162 problems in the 10 chapters, many have several parts so that there are a total of nearly 400. More important than the number is the quality of problems and the helpfulness of the answers. Both rank high in that there is a minimum of the trivial and a. maximum of thoughtprovoking, current, questions and of discussion of alternatives, analogous situations, and other related references in the answers. The questions are arranged in two introductory chapters-General Prohlems (resonance, dipole moments, acidity, hasicity, sterwchemistry), and Spectral .Problems-and eight chapters organized by reacbion type: Suhstitut,ion, Addibion and Elimination, Miscellaneous (including the foregoing types of reactions), Condensation, Rearrangement, Radical and Photochemical, Oxidntion-Reduction, and a final Miscellaneous Reactions chapter. Of course, everyone would prefer to have many more of his favorite or "most significant" type of problem, hut I believe t h a t the authors have done an excellent job of cross sectioning the field. Despite t,he very brief indices (one of types of problems, and another of eompounds and reaction t,ypes), the price
seems very fair for such a complex typesetting praduct,ion.
FRINK1,. L IMRERT Occidental Collrge Los Angeles, Cakfornza Introduction to Qualitdive Analysis
Durward C . Layde, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Daryle H . Buseh, Ohio State Univeristy, Columhus. 2nd ed. Allyn and Bacon, Ine., 267 pp. Figs. Boston, 1968. ix and tables. 16 X 23.5 cm. $9.25.
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The first edition of this book appeared in 1961 (see THIS JOURNAL39.656 (1962)); most of the material presented in the first edition can be found in the present one. The number of chapters, as well as the number of pages, has been reduced by a judicious combination of topics and elimination of material usually taken up in an earlier course. A new chapter of some 35 pages on the compounds of the metals has been added. Bonding in the representative metal compoundq, crystal field theory, charge transfer processes, bonding in the metal carbanyls, and bonding in metals in high oxidation states are some of the topics dealt with in this short chapter. The treatment of these topics is justified by the authors on the basis that they are "not given much coverage in freshman texts." The treatment given here is (Continued on page A986)
