as many topics plus author and subject indexes. The author index is exhaustive, including the names of each author in each reference. The subject index is much less solution of their structural problems. As comprehensive. In most cases the chapthe author notes, UV spectre. are not as ter commences with n review of the subpowerful as infrared and n.m.r. spectra stances being considered, continues with far structure assignment but UV spectra a, critical recapitulation of the methods often reveal subtleties of structure not which have been used to make the subunmasked by the other techniques, and stances, and concludes with actual laboraUV spectrophatametry is oft,en more contory directions for the syntheses of reprevenient for analytical determinations. sentative compounds. Each chapter has LLOYD FERGUSONits o w n bibliography. Howard University Chapter 1, entitled Coordination PolyWashington, D. C. mers, is written by John C. Bailar, and consists of 29 pages. The major emphasis is upon polymers involving organic ligsnds. Preparative Inorganic Reactions. Chapter 2, Optically Active CoardinaVolume 1 tion Compounds, is written by Stanley Kirschner, and consists of 30 pages. I t Edited by TVilliam M. Jolly, University starts with rtn excellent, brief int,raducof California, Berkeley. Interscience tion to the idea of molecular trsylnmetry Publishers (a division of John Wiley and and concomitant optical activity. PolarSons, Inr.), New York, 1964. ir 271 imetry and optical rotatory dispersion pp. Figs. and tables. 16 X 23.5 cm. phenomena are reviewed. Methods of 89. resolution of raeemic mixtures w e covered The publication of this book inaugurates in depth, as is asymmet,ricsynthesis. The another "series" of volumes covering some chapter concludes with experimental details far the resolution of a raeemie minaspect of inorganic chemistry. The numture, 11,L-~is[Cc,(en)~(NO.)?1 + ion. her of such series is rapidly approaching a plethora. Interestingly enough, a deseripChapter 3, Metal Derivhves of Ketition of the series printed on the jacket of mine and Aldirnine Compounds (Sehiff the volume credits physical chemists with Bases), is written by Dean F. Martin, and the conversion of inorganic syntheses from consists of 18 pages. (kneral methods of the status of art to one of science. I s m preparation of metal derivatives of Schiff still wondering a t the significance of this Bases are reviewed. Laboratory details statement, having read and digested the or a reference to Inorganic Syntheses are entire volume. given for an example of each type. The volume consists of ten chapten an Chapter 4, Metal Csrbonyls, is written
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by Jack C. Hileman, and consists of 44 pages. It confines itself to the simple met.81 carbonyls. The discovery and history of the substitnces are reviewed. Several pages are devoted to details of apparatus used in carhonyl work, e.g., autoclaves, dry boxes, specisl vacuum line components. Syntheses for the carbonyls of iron, cobalt, technetium, manganese, and vanadium me given in careful detail. The chapter eunrludes with a section on the identification of cerbonyls. Chapter 5, Halide and Oxyhalide Complexes of el en lent,^ of the Titanium, Vanadium, and Chromium Subgroups, is written by G. W. A. Fowles, and consists of20 pages. The properties and structures of the known compounds of t,his e l a s itre discussed briefly. Experiment,al details are given for the preparation of representative compounds. Chapter 6, Anhydrous Metal Kitrates, is written by C. C. Addison and K. Logan, and consists of 24 pages. The preparation and handling of S?O,, X20j, and CIXOi are ravered cpite n-dl. Then de-
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BOOK REVIEWS means what some would call "pseudohalogen." The methods of forming B-X bonds are reviewed. Organosilicon chemistry is not included except where an organosilicon compound is a starting material. For enample, the "best method for making SiHsBr would appear to he through the reaction of excess HBr with CeHsSiHa a t -iX0C.," CsHsSiHa HBr = SiRJ3r CeHs. Rather more experiment,nl details are included in this chapter than are to he found in the other chapters. Chapter 8, Saline Hydrides, is written by Charles E. Messer, and consists of 22 pages. The chapter eomiders a t some length the obtaining and handling of high purity hydrogen gas as well as the hydride phases. Much detail on the preparation and handling of LiH, NsH, and CaHl follows. Adequate references are included to the other saline hydrides. Chapter 9, Sulfur-Nitn~gen-Fluorine Compounds, is written by Oskar Glemser, and consists of 10 pages. This chapter is unique in that it covers in considerable det,ail six specific substances, NSF, 8.NPs NSF*, N&F,, NIS~FI,and SINIF. . Chapter 10, Hypohditos and Compounds Containing the -OX Group, is written by Stanley hl. Williamson, and consists of 12 pages. A brief review of alkali metal hypohalites is followed by a somewhat more detailed account of the molecular hypohalites, such as, the oxygen fluorides and the hypofluorites of
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strong acids, FON02, etc. Next, oxide hypofluorites are considered, such as C h O F and S h O F . Halagen(1) oxides, nitrates, fluorosulfonates, perchlarates, alkoxides, and csrboxylates concludes the chapter. I t is mv " minion that each author has been well-chosen to consider experimental details in his o m specialty. Furthermore, each has done a. very good job. While I cannot honestly see this volume taking its place as either textbook or lahoratory manual, I do feel that it will be an excellent place to which one can refer students for up-to-date, expert coverage of the ten topics.
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S. YOUNG TYREE,JR. University o j h'orlh Carolina Chapel Hill Organometallic Chemistry
Eugene G. Rochow, Harvard Selected Topics in Modern Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1964. ix 112 pp. Figs. 13 X 18.5 cm. $1.95.
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Organometallic compounds are not new, even though they have not been customarily mentioned in introductory courses. They have been known since the sc~eneeof chemistry developed out of alchemy, but the present century has witnessed a t,remendoua expansion in their number with attendant appheatians in medicine, biology, agriculture, the physics1 sciences, and the chemical industries. The branrlr of science now known as organometallic
chemistry was originated in the 1x30's byRobert Bunsen. This hook contains 104 pages of textual material in addition to a. complete index and a preface that is well worth reading. The first chapter is a n introduction in which the term organometollic is defined as applying only to those compounds in which organic groups are linked directly to metal atoms. Nomenclature is eonsidered here also. The second chapter deals with the nature of the carbon-metal bond. The structures of ionic and covalent arganometallic compounds are discussed, and the "sandwich" compounds such as ferrocene and hisbenzenechromium are described. The t,hird chapter deals with methods of preparation (usuall,~from snother orgmametallic compound); the Grignard reagent is discussed at some length in this connection. Typical reactions of orgmometallic compounds are described in the fourth chapter. The fifth chapter is devoted to Some Sigma-bonded Compounds, the sixt,h to Some Ionic Compounds, the seventh to Some Ddocalized-eleetronbonded Compounds, and the eighth to carbonyls. The student reader will probably be surprised by the many applications of organometallic compounds presented in the ninth chapt,er. This chapter contains 23 pages, which is more than twice the average length of the other chapters. Here the student will discover the chemical identit,y of suhst,ances wit,h m,hich he is (Conlinued on prior .4 6.9)
