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As an introductory text-book for the classes of students indicated in the title, this should be very useful. It is clearly written, and provided with exercises. One might have wished for a little more experimental detail; beginners in organic chemistry are liable to get into the habit of “removing hydroxyl groups,” or “adding halogen atoms to double-bonds,” or similar hypothetical operations, when they are asked to describe some simple laboratory operation. Chap, xviii., on “Schematic Representation,” should be found helpful by students, as the subject is not usually dealt with in text-books. Slight weakness in physico-chemical theory is sometimes detected— e.g. on p. 5, with reference to fractional distillation, one finds only the misleading statement that “the more volatile vapour passes on to the condenser, and a sharp separation is effected.” The elementary facts of fractional distillation are not often explained in text-books on organic chemistry.
Organic Chemistry for Medical, Intermediate Science, and Pharmaceutical Students.
Dr.
A. Killen
Macbeth
By. Pp. xi + 235. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1920.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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Organic Chemistry for Medical, Intermediate Science, and Pharmaceutical Students . Nature 106, 241 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106241a0
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