BOOK REVIEWS and methods that arc included are d c scrihed or explained in rome detail. Topics oavered in turn are the nomeaelatwe, clnasifiastion, st,ructore determination and ~ynthesisof fatty aeids; the chemical nature of fats; the ph,vaicd properties of fats and fatty acids; the chemical reactions of fats i d f&ty acids; the synthesis and utilization of iat,s in living organisms; and thr principal technical application8 of fat^. On the wh&, this orderly exposition of material, along wit,h appropriate comm~nts and explanations, gives the hook hnlsncc and intrrent, wen for the morc gmcml reader. H o u v e r , cvrn t,hough morc import,ant
:Ispects of the suhjeot are givcn grealer emphasis, such shortromings as the rzt,her ~ k e t r h yand very ineomplet,e survey of presrnhlay methods for t,he synthesis of fatty saicls and the faihlro to ineludo any mention of the current importance of nuclear magnet,il: resonanoc to structural studies in this field seriood~-detract from the intended usefulncs~of thr lmok. In certain ncrtions only slight help is given to the reader for developing practical or critical insight into t h scope ~ and limit.stions of a given rhomiml or phyairal method. I t wo~lldalso have heen rlerirnhle to have morc than n total oi 4 pages devotod to the discussion of ester-%,axes, glycrrophosphnt,ides, and sphingolipids. lhponding on how thc hook is to he used, t,hc abovc critk:isma will be of re-
stricted importance. Otherwise, cspecially because so much basic information has been incorporated into the various tables and other classified listings of rompounds which artre included, the text has considrrahle value as a handy reference volume, although i t certainly cannot in any sense replace the existing works of this nat,me which are alrewly available, nor waa it intended to do so.
Elementary Practical Organic Chemistry. Part 3: Quantitative Organic Analysis Arlhw I. Vo'oyel, Woolmich Polytechnic, London. Longmans, Green and Co., New York. 1958. xiii 645 sraii pp. 14.5 X 22 cm. $4.50.
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Arthur L. Vogel's "Quantitative Organic Analysis" is the third (Part 3) of rr series of three hooks on Elementary Practical Organic Chemistry. Part 3 like parts 1 and 2 is intended mainly for use as a texthwk hut will $so be found t,o be invaluable for use by graduate students and industrid research chemists. The hook is well organized and includes procedures for the qunntitative determination of selected elements found in organic compounds. However, the text deals largely with the quantitative andysis of campounds through the medium of functional groups. It is quite evident that Dr. Vogel and his associates have expended murh time and effort in cherking many experimental procedures found in the recent literature. Tho author does not claim t o have dealt. with all of the functional groups which may he enooontered in orgsnie chemistry. The tod dent may seleot one of a number of met,hods for the quantitative debermination of mans of the functional groups. For cxample, the following methods are given far the determination of the equivalent weight, of x carhoxylic acid: (1)With standard alkali solution in aqueous, :tqneoos-alroholir, or alcoholic solution. (2) Ry titr.ztioa with standard sodiummothoxide solution in a non-aqueous medium. (3) By the iodometric method. (4) By analysis of its silver salt. A discussion of them selert,ed methods preceeda t,hc experimental procedure, which is followod hy sample methods of rdculat.ion. Inrlndrd xlro are a group of determinations using ion exchange methods, some applications of the Karl Fischer reagent and a nnmhcr of miscellaneons determinations. GERRITVANZYL
Hope College Holland, Michigan EDITOR'S NOTE: The 1n.o previous volumes, "Part I: Small Scale Preparations" and "Part 2: Qualitative Organic Analysis" (reviewed in J. CHEM. Eouc., 34,521 (1957) and 35,368 (1958)), have heen reoently published together wit,h Part 3. The complete volunw, 890 pp., is W.75. (Cmlinz~erlon page A480)
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