book reviews of quantum chemistry are discussed such as the many-electron atom, the HartreeFoek self-consistent-field method, electron correlation, spin-orbit interaction, molecular symmetry, the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, valence-bond and molecular orbital treatments of diatomic molecules, the SCF MO treatment of polyatomic molecules, valence-hond treatment of polyatomic molecules, semiempirical MO treatments of planar conjugated molecules and nonplanar molecules. The viral theorem and the Hellman-Feynman theorem are also presented. The topics chosen me of interest to chemists and the presentation is clear to the average chemist. Current literature references in quantum chemistry are widely quoted throughout the text. The author introduces the necessary mathematics as the physical and chemical considerations require. However, the a& tempt is not quite successful. Sometimes it interrupts the flow of thought on the physical questions and makes for a disconnected presentation of the msthematics. Some mathematics and some steps of derivations are presented in an unnecessarily detailed manner. I t may he useful for self-teaching but it may bore the student with a better mathemsticd hackground. Some important topios are presented in a terse style (e.g., comparison of the variation and perturbation methods, techniques of perturbation theory, the SCF MO treatment of polyatomic molecules, semiempirical MO treatments of nonplanar molecules, computer and quantum chemistry, the future of quantum chemistry, etc.). Despite these minor shortcomings, I still highly recommend this hook for use as an introductory quantum chemistry textbook far advanced undergraduate students and first-year graduate students with relatively poor mathematical backgrounds. I also recommend it as a reference for self-teachine. But I
backgrounds. YUHKANGPAN Boston College Chestnut Hill. Mass. 0,9167
Introduction 80 Quantum Chemistry
Jay Martin Anderson, Bryn Mawr College. W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York, 445 pp. Figs. and tables. 1969. xiv 16 X 23.5 cm. $14.95.
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This text represents a significant contribution to the new generation of quantum mechanics texts for senior m d graduate students in chemistry and chemical physics. It has a number of very attraotive features such as the extensive use of exercises and problem. These form an integral part of the development and suoceed in their purpose because the suthor has provided a remarkable 90 pages of answers, including a large section on ~olutionswith a digital computer.
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Because both matrix mechanics and wave mechanics are developed from a fundamental postulate basis, the reader must possess a good grounding in linear algebra, and matrix manipulations. For those without this background a 30 page appendix on the subject is provided (taken largely from the author's 1966 hook "Mathematics for Quantum Chemistry"). After a brief semi-historicel introduction to the need for quantum mechanics (13 pages of Chapter 0) and an even briefer review of classical mechanics, the following topics are covered (pages are given in parenthesis): the postulates (16); application to particles in potential wells, rigid rotors and harmonic oseillatars (75); hydrogen atom (12); perturhation theory and variation methods (40); polyelectronic atoms (17); molecules (27); spectroscopy (23); scattering (10). Some of the treatments w e novel and interesting and many lecturers and students will undoubtedly find the text a pleasure to work through. The word "Introduction" in the title is well chosen since the hook does provide . a rigorous and well written introduction to thelanguage and techniques of quantum mechanics. Some readers may, however, consider that the author hasn't quite made it to the "Chemistry" in his title since few applications are discussed in detail (only 8 pages are devoted to polyatomic molecules). However, such criticism is somewhat unfair. This hook does not attempt to review current work on molecular structure calculations which was done so well in a similar hook by F. L. Piler ("Elementmy Quantum Chemistry," McGraw-Hill, 1968). It does not present group theory either. However, other books do cover these topics well and there is no need for them to appear under a single cover. What is important is that Anderson has written an excellent text on the more fundamental aspects of quantum chemistry.
parstus is diagrammed, and the more than a few instrumental descriptions. However, there are some inoonsisteneies and omissions. Far example, there is no mention of KBr pellet preparation in the initial ir discussion; this is found in the appendix. In thin layer chromatography, no mention is given of the visualization procedures, though this is one of the key steps in this technique. In most quslitative organic schemes, the clsssifieation of the substance by solubility is the first step. Swinehart places this in Chapter 32, though there are several chapters devoted to the subject of qualitative analysis befare thia. The most surprising omission is that no mention of nmr occurs. There are no references to the literature in the entire hook. In view of the extensive use of ir, the fact that there is no discussionof the essential steps in analysis of ir spectra is a surprise. The book has much to recommend it if the instructor is willing to make some essential additions.
J. D. REINHEIMER College of Wooster W~osler,Ohio An Introduction to Modern Experimental Organic Chemirtry
Roysta M . Roberts, John C. Gilbert, Lynn B. Rodmald, and Ahn S. W6ngrove, all of the University of Texas, Austin. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 388 pp. Inc., New York, 1969. xii Figs. and tables. 18.5 X 26 om. $7.50.
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The authors state their intention that the book has been designed to provide the basis for a lahoratorv course which empha-iiree both the thrrnetirsl a d pntrtical uqkcti of wuuuic drcnii,rry, nhilr at the snmc t m r iutnducinl: : I I ~ernp1uyi1.gthe more recently developed spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques. E. A. OQRYZLO The hulk of the hook, 246 pages to he University of B~itishColumbia exact, concerns itself with specific lahoraVancouver, Canada tory preparations which cover a wide range of resction types and includes free radical halogenation, elimination to and addition of dkenes, electrophilic aromatic substitution, the Diels-Alder reaction, S N ~ and S N rextions, ~ earbenes and arynes, Organic Chemirtry: arganwnetallics, oxidations, the reactions An Experimental Approach of carbonyl containing compounds, as well James 5.Swinehart, Perkin-Elmer Corp., as three multistep sequences leading to Appleton-Century-Crofts (educational polystyrene, sulfathiasole, and l-hromo-3division of the Meredith Corp.), New chloro-5-iodobennene. The section con599 pp. Figs. York, 1969. xiv cludes with a. prepamtion of tropylium and tables. 22 X 28 cm. Softbound. iodide and some carbohydrate chemistry. $8.95. Each experiment is preceded by a, detailed discussion of the theoretical prineiThis book, witb a plastic ring binder, is pals relating to it and an outline of the a laboratory manual which contsins both practical aspects which the experiment is synthetic and qualitative organic experidesigned to convey. I n addition to this a ments. The techniques of gas, thin layer, series of well conceived exercises after the paper and column chromatography and experimental write-ups insures that the ir spectroscopy are discussed, as well as student has thaueht about and understood the classical techniques of distillation, thr t1teor.v HMI prn(.tm c-onrkin~dill the extraction, etc. The hook is well-illuscxpc~imer.t. Both i r nnd i l m r spectra of trated with diagram of apparatus, stxrting tnarrriul-. a r d produet* arr rlmrly schemetics of instruments and a. large presented for each synthetic sequence, number of ir spectra. There are quesand this innovation presents the instructor tions with each experiment and answers (who for pedagogical considerations, or^ to selected exercises in an appendix. lack of student. time or instruments, does The strengths of this book are its versatility, the care with which special ap(Continued on page A598)
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