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IN this introduction to the study of organic chemistry, an attempt is made to interest the student in the general principles underlying the experimental work involved in the preparation of fifty carefully chosen compounds by devoting the greater part of the work to the discussion of such general reactions as oxidations and reductions, esterifications and hydrolysis, halogenation, nitration and sulphonation, diazotization, intra–molecular rearrangements and special reactions including some modern work, and inserting cross–references to the relevant paragraphs to these discussions in the directions for procedure. Relatively little attention is given to qualitative and quantitative analysis, but a few physico–chemical topics such as those involved in the distillation of azeotropic and other mixtures and in extractions with solvents are discussed.
An Introduction to the Practice of Organic Chemistry in the Laboratory
By Prof. Homer Adkins Prof. S. M. McElwain Prof. M. W. Klein. (International Chemical Series.) Third Edition. Pp. ix + 294. (New York and London: McGraw–Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 17s. 6d.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 148, 70 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148070a0
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