BOOK REVIEWS framed, relating to good study habit*. against a saturation preaentabion of material without a responsible demand for understanding, leanling, and retaining! The difference between this hook and a good introductory text is that the s t w dent can he held accountable for the type of information in the good text! Perhaps t,his principal objection may be restated: I t is not ~ h v i o u s whethe]. the rtnthola have distinguished between a text on modern chemical prinriples and a hook which simply contains harder material and m ~ w hmore of it !
E. h l r ~ LIYTOK, ~ ~ n JR. Montana Slate liniveraily Boreman, Monlana 55711, Introductory Descriptive Chemistry: Selected Nonmetals, Their Propertier and Behavior
Ronald C . Johnson, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New Yark, 1966. x 144 pp. Figs. and tsblea. 14 X 21 cm. Papep
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hound, $2.45; cloth, 84.95. I t is a real pleasure to read a new textmonograph which is outstanding for two important attributes. Firstly this little hook is very well written. Secondly the nothor incorporates recent chemistry in such a way that its basis, classical chem-
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i s t ~ . ~is, uot overlouked; rather, the two appear as what they really are, parts of the whole which must be taught. The selected "on-metals are hydrogen, horon, nitrogen, and the halogens. The author has decided to cover the descriptive chemistry of these elements a t length for beginning students. The only coverage of the other non-metals is incidental to explaining periodic relationships. A familiarity on the part of the st.udent with "the electronic theory of atoms, elementary bonding theory, and the use of half-cell electrode potentials" is presumed. Thus, throughout, structures are present,ed and rationalized in terms of elementary bonding t,heory. Illustrat,ions of structures and stereochemical inierenees are excellent. A short., hut very usable, set of qnestioos follows each chapter. The chapters on hydrogen, nitrogen, and the halogens are very complete in their coverage. The chapter on boron is essentiallv on boron hvdrides. For the
ment to s. mom general int~mduetory text. I t is possible to find only two m a l l quarrels with the text. A very simple mistake has beeu made in the legend of the Periodic Table on page 2. The color scheme interchanges t,he positions of the met,als and the non-met,als. The second item is almost trivia. However for an author who appears t,o think so highly of L. Pauling, one wonders why the laller'8
system of A :and B suhgroupa designaliuu was not adopted.
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Modern Organic Chemistry
John D ,lioherts, California. Institute of Technology, Psnadedene, and Marjorie C. Caserio, Ilniversity of California, Irvine. W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York, 196i. xxi 844 pp. Fim. and tables. 18.5 X 26.5 cm. 510.75.
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This book is a shortened version of Roberts slid Cawrio'r well-known texl. "Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry." The change in the title of the book and the reduction firm 1315 tu 844 pages might lead one to expect major revisions, hut, such is imt the case. The titles of the 31 chapters are idelltical in both hooks with the exceptiau of a miuor change in the title oiChapte1.28 ("Dyes and Photochemistry" in the rhol.tened version and "Dyes, Color Photography, and Photochemistry" in the o~.iginslversion). I n fact, the books seemeddrnostidentical on casual inspection so that a suspicion occurred to the reviewer that the rednetion in pages might have been effected h?using smaller type. 9 careful mearurement of ~everalidentically worded parag r a p h ~dispelled this dark thought,. The reduction has been effected by reIContimreii on page
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etc. The were cersections and no tainly the lew be in this regard. Furfault these did not affect the the presentation. the good said the LJ. C ~ ~ MEDUC.~ . 429 17' (1965)1 pertain t,u the shortened vemion. If you want a shortened version of Ibberts and Caperin, a which has the 36% most expelldable Portions removed, 'LA1odcrn is your hook. NORMAN C. DENO
Pcnvwilvanian Stale Universilu Uniuersily pavi: Introductory Analytical Chemistry
A~~~~~~~~1, popou, hi^^^ state ~and R ~ ~ univelsity, E~~~~ T, pfinurn, ~ ~ iof I ~, , ~ ~~ , ~ ~and ~co,,~~o s t o ,,, , city, D, C, ~ 1966, ix+ 310 pp. ~ 16 X 24 cm. $6.50
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There is considerable disoossion t,oday concerning the treatment of annlytical chemistry in the imde~.graduate curricolum. The traditional two-semester course that was concerned with the classical methods (titrimetric and gravimetric) has been replaced, in many cases, by a onesemester study of dassical methods and a
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one-semester study of "instrumental" methods. Both one-semester courses vary in their nlcttionships to each ot,her and may, or may not, be taught in sequence. There is a demaud for sound and practical onesemester texts that strongly emphasiae chemical principles and have a laboratory prngram emphasizing classiosl methods or c l a ~ ~ i cand d imtrument,al methods. The latter lrtbaratory approach has been taken by the authors; and their text is a, good me, subject to the comments and limited ,,iticisms given belaw. The text is divided into three parts: Principles, Laboratory Procedures, and Appendix. Part One contains eight chapten: Introduotion (13 pages); Ionic Equilibria. in Rolntions (53 pages); AcidBsse Equilibria (41 pages); OxidatiotlReduction Equilibria ( 3 4 pages); Complex Compounds in Analytical ChemisLry (25 pages); Separations in Analytical Chemistrv " 134 ,~ nsees): ., Meesurement and Treatment of Data in Analytical Chemisof ~~try~ (40 M i pages);~ and The ~ Literature , AnalyticalChemistry(5pages). ~ i ~ , ~ PartTwo hrief statement of laboratory hcontain" safety rules and twenty-four laboratory procedures. The Appendix consists of m ~ r o o r i a t e tables of eouilibrium eonstants; standard redu~tion'~otentials, and formula. weights. The authors clearly state in the Preface that it is dificult "to part with old idols"; yet they recognize that new approaches to the teaching of analytical chemistry must he made. Some traditional material that one might expect to find in a
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one-sen~estel. bext has been omitted or else presented in an abbreviated fashion. However, t h ~loss of such material has been compensated by the i n c h i o n oi many newer and important concepts and topics. Emphasis has been placed on the principles of equilibria. The deserip tions oi activities, thermodynilmio equilibrium constants, ionic strengths, and the Debye-lliickel Limiting Law illustrate the care given to the treatment of equilib~.ia. I t is also pleasing to see the inclusion of topics such as the conducti~nceof ionic solutions, acid-base titratious i n nonaqueous solvents, the importance of complex compounds, and separation by ion exchange and chromatography. The principles of titrimetry (use of indicators, electrometric titrations, etc.) and gravimetry at? covered very well; howevel., the reviewer wishes that a. more extew sive treatment were given to a. number ni tonics snch as the six seoaratian teehniqnes, and the measurements of mass, volmne, light absorbance, conductance, and electromotive force. I t should be emphasized, however, that an excellent list of wierences is given a t the end of each chapter, most to J. C m x EDUC., and the list of literature sources eiven in Chapter 8 is quite extensivet
