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THE chemist in industry is far more interested in the reaction, mechanism and technique of the processes employed than in the countless new carbon compounds which are synthesised; hence a textbook of organic chemical engineering which deals with the unit processes. Those chosen are nitration, reduction, diazotisation, halogenation, sulphonation, animation, oxidation, hydrogenation, alkylation, esteriflcation, hydrolysis, Friedel and Craft's reaction, polymerisation. There is little doubt that this is the way to teach the subject, and that the new method will in time prevail.
Unit Processes in Organic Synthesis
By P. H. Groggins. Editor-in-Chief. (Chemical Engineering Series.) Pp. xii + 689. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1935.) 30s. net.
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Unit Processes in Organic Synthesis. Nature 136, 8 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136008e0
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