Tabellarische Uebersicht der künstlichen organischen Farbstoffe

Abstract

DR. SCHULTZ is well known to “tar chemists” as the author of “Die Chemie des Steinkohlentheers,” the most exhaustive work on coal-tar products which has hitherto been written, and of which the first edition appeared in 1882, and the second, enlarged to two thick volumes, in 1887–1890. His colleague Dr. Julius is the author of a useful little work on the same subject published in 1887. The volume before us is a remarkable production from every point of view, and well worthy of the reputation of the two authors who have collaborated in its production. Although nothing more than a tabulated catalogue of coal-tar colouring-matters, as it professes to be, the work is in reality a complete index to the literature of this rapidly growing branch of industry; complete, that is to say, to the date of its publication; but development is taking place even now at such a pace that a single year has sufficed to render a supplement necessary, and many of the most recently added colouring-matters are not included in the lists. The first edition of the “Tabellarische Uebersicht” was published in 1888 and contained 278 colouring-matters; the present edition contains 392 colouring-matters—a fact which speaks for itself with respect to the progress of chemical discovery in this direction. The volume is dedicated to the late Prof, von Hofmann, whose labours in this field in the early days of the industry will render his name inseparable from that band of pioneers who were the first to penetrate into the new regions opened up by the discovery of mauve by Dr. W. H. Perkin in 1856.

Tabellarische Uebersicht der künstlichen organischen Farbstoffe.

Von Gustav Schultz Paul Julius. R. Gaertner's Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hermann Heyfelder. (Berlin, 1891.)