(1) The Synthesis of Benzene Derivatives (2) The Use of Solvents in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (3) Organic Syntheses: an Annual Publication of Satisfactory Methods for the Preparation of Organic Chemicals

Abstract

THE ever-growing output of research that Tmarks the progress of chemical science is reflected in the increasing size of the chemical journals; and the task of the researcher whose text-books these form becomes more onerous each year. The work is lightened by the publication of the Chemical Society's Annual Reports, and by the appearance from time to time of monographs dealing with the more important theoretical aspects of the problems under investigation, but the wealth of information ‘tied up’ in the experimental work of the original papers is not so easily rendered accessible. This difficulty has been partially solved by the compilation of such comprehensive treatises as Houben-Weyl's “Die Methoden der organischen Chemie,” or Meyer' “Analyse und Konstitutionsermittlung organischer Verbindungen,” and the first two of the three books under review are frank attempts on the part of the authors to provide for Englishspeaking chemists similar correlated information on definite problems connected with laboratory practice.

(1) The Synthesis of Benzene Derivatives.

By Stanley C. Bate. Pp. 229. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1926.) 21s. net.

(2) The Use of Solvents in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.

By Prof. Donald W. MacArdle. Pp. vii + 217. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1926.) 15s. net.

(3) Organic Syntheses: an Annual Publication of Satisfactory Methods for the Preparation of Organic Chemicals.

Editor-in-Chief: Carl Shipp Marvel. Vol. 5. Pp. vii + 110. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1925.) 7s. 6d. net.