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amino mono and polycarboxylic acids, oximes and nitroso compounds, Schitf's bases, biguanide, and ligands containing sulfur. Literature in this portion is covered to the end of 1960 with some especially important references UP to
U h e author is interested; those which fall outside the area which excites the author, and; those which were included to "round 1966. out" the book. Both an empirical formula. and name T h e introduction and the chapters on index are included to facilitate the use of treatment of .experiment,al techniques this +olume. data. fall into the latter csteaory. I n some ways, it is too bad that a-bobook needs to JANETB.VAN DOREN have' an introduction; in this csse, the inCollege of Wooster troduction is followed immediately by the Wwster, Ohio techniques and data treatment chapters, such that one needs to be persistent in Gmelinr Handbuch der Anorganirchen &ding from the beginning to get to the Chemie. 8. Auflage, System Nummer really good part of this book. The situation is not alleviated, very 3. Liekrung 7, Warrerstoffperoxid much by Chapters 4, 5, and 6 on &s kiEdited by E. R. E. Pietsch and netics, which fall into the second category. the Gmelin Institute. Verlsg Chemis These chapters are passable, but they do 1966. GMBH, Weinheim/Bergstr-, not compare with the rest of the book, xxxvii 478 pp. Figs. and tables. largely taken up with oxidation-reduction 17.5 X 25.5 cm. $99. and displseement rertctions in aqueous solution. These chapters are an excellent This volume is 8. comprehensive monoexposition of the field current as of the . graph an hydrogen peroxide with a comwriting of the book snd more than redeem plete literature review through 1962. the slower going encountered earlier. Section One covers the formation and I n Chapters 7-15, the book wvers, in a properties of the vapor and its chemical fine way for such a smsll volume, isotopic reactions. The second portion deals with exchange, reactions of metal ions, reactions water-peroxide solutions and their p r o p of hydrated electrons, substitution reacerties, electrochemiod behavior, and chemtions in complexes, and acid-base reactions. ical reactions. Smaller sections on soluOnly one chapter is devoted to non-metal tions in organic solvenb, detection and containing ions, but the examples are well determination, and deuterium peroxides chosen. This portion of the book is most conclude the work. worthwhile and makes it a. "must" for anyJANETB. VANDOHEN one with an interest in the area. College of woosler The aooendices seem out of dace and of Womter, Ohio little i~ie,lmr rlw vr.lume 1s well indexnl, . ~ ~ r ~ ~ ~ d I ~ , t haccordiw I < >~ ~ ~ t l>uhjwr*. Thc Imok rwdd well Ire wrd a. s s8lpplr:. .. mental text in inorganic coumes and probD. H . WhiiTen, National Physical Labably will be read by many students a t both undergraduate and graduate levels in preoratory, London. John Wiley and Sons, Ine., New York, 1966. vii 205 paring for comprehensiveexaminations. pp. Figs. and tables. 14 X 21.5 cm. R. DUKE Paperbound. $4.25. FREDERICK Purdue Univenitu ~ ~ , rndian; ~ ~ ~ t tDue ~ to, the rapidly increasing uses and varieties of spectroscopy in the sciences, there is need for another introductorv work. Gmelinr Handbuch der Anorganischen I n this brief volume, a careful attempt is Chemie. 8. Aufloge, System Nummer made to survey the fields of spectroscopy 60, Kupkr. Teil B, Liekrung 4, of primary interest to chemists and physiKoordindionr-Verbindungen mit cists. The topics covered include NMR, Neutralen und lnnerkomplexbildenden NQR, EPR, Mossbaner, microwave, inLiganden frared, Raman, and electronic spectrosEdited by E. H. E. Pietsch and the copy. Within the chosen limitations, the Gmelin Institute. Verlag Chemie, author is successful. The closest compariGMBH, Weinheim/Bergstrasse, 1966. son work is Barrow's "Introduction to viii 534 pp. Figs. and tables. Molecular Spectroscopy," (McGraw-Hill, 17.5 X 25.5 cm. $121. 1962), which covers fewer topies but in greeter depth. This supplement concludes Gmelin's By the author's statement the book is treatment of the compounds of copper. addressed to "beginning" undergraduates. The first portion of this volume compiles Here the term "beginning" refers to the the data on complexes with neutrd ligandv student's level of understanding of specand updates the literature through 1965 troscopy. The author assumes that the for sections 1 through 3 for "Copper" student has had solid preparation in physiPall B. Emphasis is placed an the Cu(I1) C~LI chemistry, including some treatment of complexes with water and ammonia, hut elementary quantum mechanics, beesuse sections also deal with complexes with such terns as "normalized wavefunction" amine and heterocyclic ligands and ligmds and "dipole moment operator'' are introthat contain sulfur, phosphorus, or duced without explanation. In addition, arsenic. Eleven pages are devoted to a good physics background is taken for Cu(1) complexes. granted as illustrated by the mention of The larger part of the book covers Fabry-Perot etalons for interferometry. copper compounds with ligrtnds which form inner complexes. These include the (Continued on page A552)
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