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THIS book is intended to suit the needs of scholarship candidates and others who have not completed their university course. They are expected to have studied the subject elsewhere, since the main facts are merely summarised without discussion. For example, we are tersely told that “on being heated dry the α-hydroxyacids become cyclic double esters (lactides) and may give lactyllactic acids”, and “a diazonium salt gives nuclear substitution products (Sandmeyer's reaction) in the presence of suitable catalysts”. Occasionally, very brief explanatory notes introduce topics such as optical isomerism, tautomerism and the structure of benzene, but the isomerism of maleic and fumaric acids has been unaccountably omitted.
A Concise Summary of Elementary Organic Chemistry.
By the Dr. F. H. Constable. Pp. xii + 149. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 4s. 6d.
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Chemistry. Nature 124, 536 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124536a0
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