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DIVIDED into three sections, this is essentially a textbook for the student who has had already a good grounding in the principles of organic chemistry. After a consideration of theories of valency and of atomic structure, the author then proceeds to the study of the aliphatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives. The nitroparaffins, the amines, and the ketones are dealt with before even the simple monobasic acids. The inclusion of a chapter on “the ammonia system,” showing the analogies between water and ammonia, is unusual in a book devoted to organic chemistry.
The Carbon Compounds: a Text-book of Organic Chemistry.
By Prof. C. W. Porter. Pp. ix + 494. (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1924.) 21s. net.
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A., F. The Carbon Compounds: a Text-book of Organic Chemistry. Nature 113, 887 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113887b0
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