BOOK REVIEWS named renetions with a hrief descriptinn of each. These arc classified according to the structural change prndured. An index here would have heen helpful. The American student who desires a prohlem hook would prohahly be better advised to buy that of Hansch and Helmkamp, which was reviewed in THIS JOURNAL, 37, A486 (1960). For the advanced student who wishes additional review, and is willing to overlook the ohjectionahle features which have been point,ed out, this book will he found useful. I t is perhaps inherent, in the nature of such s. hook that i t deals mostly with t h e factual and rlassicel aspects of the subject, and leaves almost untouched the thwretien1 concepts which are taking a n ever increasing proportion of the time of the student of organio chemistry. FLOYD L. JAMES A k m i Universitg Oxford, Ohio
Treafira on Analytical Chemistry. Part 2, Analytical Chemistry of the Elemenfs. Volume 7
Edited by I . M. Kolthoff, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and Philip J . Elving, University of Mirhigan, Ann Arhar, wit,h the assistance of Ernest B. Sandell, University of Minnesota. Interseience Publishers, Division of Jahn Wiley Rr Sons, New York, 1061. xxiii 567 pp. Figs. and tables. 17 X 24 cm. S18.50.
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For reviews of ci~rliervolumes of the treatise see THIS JOURNAL, 37, 108 (19601; 38, A 842, A 844 (1061); 39, A 52, A 132 (1962). This, tho fourth volume of Part I1 t o appcsr, continues t h e orderly consideration of tho analytical chemistry of the elements. The treatment and organiza tion follow the plan notedinearlier volumes of this section. The present valume includcs a 135-page chapter on the analytical chemistry of Sulfur, written h y B. J. Hoinrieh, M. D. Grimes, and J. E. Puckett, and a chapter (68 pages) on Selenium and Tellurium hy Thomas E. Green and Max Turley. Fluorine is accorded a 127-page rhapter written hy Charles A. Horton, while the remaining halogens (Chlorine, Bromine and Iodino) are considered in the $$page chapter h y G. W. Armstrong, A. H. Gill, and R. F. Rolf. A chapter (77 pages) on Manganese by M. 11. Cooper and Paul K. Winter and one on Rhenium (29 p n g ~ s )h y Charles L. R d f s conclude the volume. The present volume continues and extends certain features noted in earlier volumes. The several rhapters are remarkahly consistent in their organization and each contains considerable information not usually encountered in a n nnalytiral reference. Thus the rather eomplete tahles of physical constants of the dement and of its more important compounds are a real convenience, the section devoted t o the uses and industrial proresses of the element provide important harkground material for an annlytical
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chemist faced with a. problem involving that element, and the selected laboratory procedures which conclude each chapter should indeed be helpful. Some chapters, such as that on Fluorine, are particularly strong in their treatment of the inorganic chemistry of the element. As the treatise continues to develop and to occupy a longer section of the book shelf one notes that it would be a convenience if the individual vdnmes were to desimate. the correlation between volume number and periodic group is not perfect.
JOHN R. HAYES The Pennsylvania State University
University Park
Advancer in Electrochemistry a n d Electrochemical Engineering. Volume 1, Electrochemirtry Edited by Paul Delahay, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. IntersciencePublishers, Inc., NewYork, 1961. ix 326 pp. Figs. and tables. 16 X 23.5 em. 812.
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The work being reviewed constitutes the first volume of a new series of authoritative artirks in pure and applied electrochemistry. The first volume is concerned with the fallowing topics in academic electrochemistry by the indicated authors: the electrical double layer and its influence in electrode kinetics (Parsons); hydrogen overpotential and adsorption phenomena a t mercury (Frumkin); problems in oxygen evolution kinetics (Breiter); electrode reactions a t semi-conductors (Cerisrher) and relaxation methods in the study of fast electrode reactions (Ilelahay). The second volume will cover nome general prohlems in electrochemical engineering inrluding applications of mass transfer theory and design of fuel cell systems. The new series is evidently aimed at the specialist in fundamental electrochemical research and the professional technologist in its applications. The chapters in Volume I are presented a t a.high standard and presume familiarity with the field. Volume I covers the type of material treated in the related series "Modern Aspects of Eleetraehemistr,v" of which the first two volumes are currently available. Chapter I, by Parsons, gives an u p t n date and competent review of double-layer effects in electrochemistry with special reference to kinetirs and thermod.~amicsof adsorption and the role of the structure of the double-laver in the kinetics of eleetrochemiosl reactions: in this r e s ~ e e ct h a ~ t e r
count of B special aspect of the role of adsorption in electrochemical reactions, name1.v widh regard to hydrogen evolution. Frumkin, has, of course, himself contributed much of the essential theory and neerasarv exnerimentnl data, in this
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