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WITHIN the limits of this treatment the authors have undertaken a survey of the vast field of organic chemistry at the level of students reading for an honours degree in the subject. This ambitious project has been carried through with conspicuous success in a single volume of forty chapters and a little more than a thousand pages. The book is written in a clear and easy style, flowing naturally from one topic to the next. The dual authorship is so effective that it shows little sign of the numerous joints indicated in the preface; nor would the reader suspect, apart from the statement in the same place, that a large part of the writing of the senior author was done "in trains, planes, hotels, and army camps in the course of more than one hundred trips".
Organic Chemistry
By Louis F. Fieser Mary Fieser. Pp. xii + 1091. (Boston: D. C. Heath and Co.; London: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1944.) 30s.
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READ, J. Organic Chemistry. Nature 156, 96 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156096b0
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