JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
ORGANIC SYNTHESES. COLLECTIVEVOLUME 3
volume retains the five previous indexes: Type of Reaction, Type of Compound, Formula, Illustration, and General, and Edited by E. C. Homing, Secretary to the Board. National Heart adds a. very useful sixth on Preparation or P d c a t i o n of Solvents Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New and Reagents. Increased publication costs are reflected in a Yark, 1955. r 890 pp. 28 figs. 15 X 23 cm. $15. list price of $15, while the corresponding Volume 2 sold for $6.50 THISthird and latest collective volume of "Organic Syntheses," when released in 1943. However, this still represents a subin bringing together the contents of volumes 20 to 29 inclusive, stantial saving over the individual volume cost of $3.50. The editor-in-chief, the editorial and advisory board, as well also brings the material and organization up to date. Errors found since the original printings in single-volume form have as the publishers are to be congratulated on 'continuing one of been corrected, and there has been a. careful reohecking of ealcu- the most valuable series in the organic chemistry field. Future lations. Modifications and improvements in procedures have chemists and additional lihrarieries will not only find it more been incorporated. In the many eases where industrial chemical economical and convenient to purchase the colleotive volumes, progress has made the products described in the annual volumes but essential if they desire complete collections, since already avdilsble cheaply, this fact is indicated although full details for six of the first nine annual volumes, eight of the next ten, and preparation me still included. The references have been re- three of the 20 to 29 series are already out of print. checked and brought up to date. The literature has been reviewed thoroughly through Chaieal Abslracls, Volume 46, for 1952. To aid in making a. complete search of the literature, there has been added as a subtitle to each preparation the Chemical Abstracts indexing name for the compound when the name differs from the commonlv " used name. In the 34 years of its existence the "Organic Syntheses" series has h d y established itself as the authoritative reference ELECTROCHEMICAL CONSTANTS on the preparation of organic chemistry reagents. As long ago 0 as 1932 the advantage of having a large number of preparations National Bureau of Standards Circular 524. Edited by Walter I. in a, single volume was recognized, and the need was met with Homer. U. S. Government Printing Office,Washington, D. C., the publication of the first collective volume of 580 pages eover- 1953. iv 310 pp. Many figs. 15.5 X 23.5 cm. $2. ing the first nine volumes in the series. The second collective volume of 654 pages, covering Volumes 10 to 19, was issued in THISis a e~llcetionof 30 short papers contributed by 42 authors 1943. The current third volume is by fm the largest to date, including three from Great Britain, one each from Canada, Belwith 890 pages. Tho organization, quality, snd appearance are gium, The Netherlands, and Malaya, and three from the Bureau essentially the same as previous annud and collective volumes. of Standards. The longest of the papers consists of 20 pages; However, what appears to be lighter weight cloth binding has the shortest, a brief abstract, of only two pages. All of them, now been used. Time will tell if this will wear equally well. however, furnish important and interesting results of recent There is also a slight change in the appearance of the printed thought and experimental work in physical chemistry. cover which, while equally attractive in itself, does not match In his Foreword, Dr. A. V. Astin, Director of the Bureau of the two previous collective volumes of the series. This latest Standards, states: "The papers in this volume present some of 0
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