BOOK REVIEWS careers are discussed in a clear and precise manner. The advantages and rewards, hoth tangible and intangible, are likewise clearly presented. Educational requirements are stated in terms of definite courses and years of training in order to qualify for the opportunities whioh may be available in the field a t the various levels. A very important chapter i~ devoted to the opport,unities for women in the sciences. The contributions of women to science, hoth past and present, serve as illustrations of the definite and increasing
place of women in this field. The author does not overlook the unique problems which will he encountered, but hastens to discuss the changing view of society toward women scientists An extremely helpful appendix contains tables of average salaries which presently prevail in the field. The tables are speoifio for the various fields. Sources of additional information concerning each field are listed. Another unique service is s. listing of colleges and universities which train persons in the various speoifio fields.
Organic Andyris.
Volume 4
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This book is number four in a series of collective volumes which eventually will cover tho entire field of organic andysis. ROBERTL. SILBER The first of the series appeared in 1953; it, American. Chemical Societv and two subsequent volumes, dealt largely Washington. D.C. with functional group analysis. The hulk of volume 4 is devoted to instrumental analytical techniques. It contains six chapters: 1) Determination of Organic Peroxides, 2) Enzyme Analytical Reactions, 3) Gas Chromatography, 4) Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Organic Analysis, 5) Crystxllographie Methods of Analysis: X-Kay Diffraction and Microscopy, and 6) Application of Differential Thermal Analysis to High Polymers. The treatment of organic peroxides is comprehensive, covering volumetric, colorimetric, and instrumental methods of peroxide estimation and concluding with recommendations for specific types of peroxides and comparisons of available methods. An extensive bibliography is provided, and, as in previous volumes, critical evaluation and comparisons of methods are made throughout the text. In some cases, improved procedures, differing somewhat from those in the original literature, are described. The discussion is written with authority. The chapter on eneyme analytical r e actions is a very brief survey of enzyme reactivities with a few specific analytical applications. The important and rapidly developing field of gas chromatography is treated extensively in the longest chapter in the book. Although "the purpose of this chapter is to acquaint chemists with the potential of gafi rhromatography for organic analysis," the authom accomplish more than this. A considerable amount of general information is provided, in addition to the analytical applications. The concluding pages contain a series of tables in which are tilholated diverse specific applirntions, ranging from the aceumulation of thermodynsmic and kinetic data through application to foodstuff rhemi t . Iksrriptions of work and instrumentation done in the authors' laboratory augment the abundant recent literature in the field. There are avnilahle R number of hroad treatments of therelativelynew technique, XMIt spectroscopy. In the present chapter the stress is an applications of high resolution speetroscap? to structure determination of organic molecules; neither the theory nor instrumentation are discussed as fully as in some of the other treatments. C ~ a t doptics and morphology, X-ray diffraction analysis, and fusion methods of analysi~are the subject of Chapter 5. Disrussiona of principles and techniques (Continued a page A6401
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