Abstract
DR. MEYER has brought out a book of considerable value to chemists engaged in research work; it is hardly a book for students, unless working along research lines. Such a work as this is very difficult to criticise, because it is really a small dictionary of methods; such dictionaries are naturally very useful, provided they are carefully drawn up, which we consider to be the case in the book before us. Take, for example, the first chapter, which consists of 37 pp., and includes practically all the methods which may be used for determining the hydroxy-groups. One might be inclined to think this rather an unnecessary amount of space to devote to such an apparently simple matter as the determination of the —OH radicle, but as there is very little padding, it really points out that Li organic chemistry conditions govern everything; that a method which, under certain conditions, may be applied with success is quite useless when these conditions are altered or modified.
Determination of Radicles in Carbon Compounds.
By Dr. H. Meyer. Translated by J. Bishop Tingle Ph.D. Pp. xii + 162. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1903.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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P., F. Determination of Radicles in Carbon Compounds . Nature 68, 319 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068319a0
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