find answers to these and other problems related to particle formation and growth in this small volume. Professor Heicklen treats in turn particle loss throueh diffusion to container walls. nartiele lois through mavitatianal settline: ~ , condenrat~on,coagulation, vaporization, particle disintegration (spontaneous fracture), homogeneous nucleation, heterogeneous nucleation and accommodation coefficients. The discussion necessarily has a strong mathematical component and the author wisely emphasizes methods of attack rather than manipulative details in solving prohlems. Readers who can respond positively to the ACS bumper sticker "Honk-if you passed p-chem" should have little trouble in following his arguments. The book has a number of special features. The science of colloid dynamics is developed from the viewpoint of chemical kinetics, an approach which is entirely new in the author's opinion. Expressions for rate coefficients of all important processes in the field are derived. Where simplifications are possible, approximate formulas are given. The hook is generously sprinkled with tables, figures, and references to the pertinent literature. It should he of interest and value to investigators and graduate students working with colloids.
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Prlnclples of Organlc Chemistry. Fourth Edition
T. A. Geissman. Universitv of California. ~. Los Angrlci. VV: H. ~ r e t m a nand Cumpany, San Francisco, 1977. x + 1035 pages. Figurer and tables. 18.5 X 24 cm. $1995. The fourth edition of "Principles of Organic Chemistry" by T. A. Geissman is a revision of the pmvious edition which appeared in 1968. In his preface, Geissman notes that "a thorough understanding of the chemical events in biological systems now requires the student to pursue a course of study in organic chemistry that pwesses much of the rigor of the traditional course for chemistry majors." This text is, in this reviewer's opinion, an ample hut awkward attempt to provide coverage for both the chemistry and biology maior. Pundamentally, this new edition is similar to the third, hut there are some hasicdifferences. The chapter on nomenclature has disappeared as has the chapter dealing with polymers. The coverage of stereochemistry has been wiselv nlaced in Chanter 6 in the fourrh editlon; i i n ~ h a b t e r16 in the uldrr version. Sermdary met3holites (terpmes and aromatic compounds) now occupy two chapters instead of one. Coverage of spectroscopy is limited in this text and d w s not appear in the new edition until Chapters 17 (ultraviolet and infrared) and 26 (nuclear maenetic resonance and mass snectroscoov). ~e&eaeoeicallv.this seeme to illuztrate principles i>f bonding, electnmegntivity, and molecular structure. Ta, little 1s provided too late. Similarly,carbohydrates (Chapters 14and 15) are discussed before earhonyl compounds (Chapters 19 and 20). This unusual ordering
of these topics was not found in the previous edition and certainly does not represent any imnrovement. The chanter on alkaloids triap&r 3% is basically a'catnlog of facts and presents little useful chemistry. Gaisrman seems more concerned with vocabulary and structure than with logical development and presentation of chemistry in these chapters. However, there are some very nice areas in this text.Oxidation is covered in a separate chapter which presents not only mechanisms hut a rigorous analysis of these reactions in terms of axidation-reduction numbers. On page 135, an interesting discussion of the historical development of sulfa drugs from a m dyes is presented. Other topics in medicinal and biological chemistry receive similar treatment. This teat is prohably not one that would be useful for a class containing chemistry majors For biology majors, the text would at best he adequate but cumbersome. ~~
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Equlllbrlum In Solutions and Surface and Collold Chemistry
Julian Heicklen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Pennsylvania State University. Academic Press, New York, 1976. xx + 132 PP. - - Figs. - and tables. 15.5 X 24 cm. $1450.
George Scatchord, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Edited hy I. Herbert Scheinberg. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1976. xxxv 306 PP. Figs. and tables. 16 X 24 cm. $30
Persons who have wondered why water droplets do not divide like bacteria, how big a particle must be before it constitutes a second phase, how fast particles nucleate from vapor, or what happens to the surface tension of a small drop as it evaporates will
George Scatchard whcndied m 1973 at the age oi81 taught physical chemistry for almmt 35 years a t the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and had a deep influence not only an his students hut on all those interested in thermodynamics of solutions of
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