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THIS is an expensive introduction to organic chemistry, which does not offer any particularly novel features. The type of treatment is indicated by the first few chapter headings, which run as follows: introduction, methane and related com pounds, alcohols and ethers, halogen derivatives of the paraffins, unsaturated hydrocarbons, alde hydes and ketones. The descriptive work is well done, and the accompanying graphic formulæ are set out very clearly. Some of the space devoted to the accounts of individual substances might have been used to greater advantage in a fuller exposition of such general matters as the fundamental principles of stereochemistry and the nature of cyclic compounds. Thus, the constitutions of quinoline, isoquinoline, and more complex hetero-cyclic substances are presented without explanation before benzene has been discussed; and even when benzene is reached, its constitution receives scant attention. The final chapter contains laboratory directions for twenty-eight simple experiments in organic chemistry. The book contains fifteen diagrams, mostly of apparatus.
An Introduction to Organic Chemistry.
Prof.
Ira D.
Garard
By. Pp. ix + 296. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1932.) 16s. 6d. net.
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An Introduction to Organic Chemistry . Nature 131, 420 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131420c0
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