Modern Organic Chemistry

Abstract

THIS is a comprehensive text-book planned on a somewhat rigid classificatory basis. The historical introduction is limited to three pages, and except for an equally brief note on the evolution of organic chemical formulæ, most of the remaining historical allusions are confined to a bare mention, usually undated, of names of leading investigators in the various fields which come successively under review. The treatment of aliphatic compounds (including methods of molecular diagnosis) occupies the first 361 pages; of carbocyclic compounds (including pyrones, indigotin derivatives, and certain other heterocyclic types), 342 pages; and of heterocyclic compounds, 137 pages. In a series of tables, filling the final 17 pages, a good deal of information of statistical and scientific interest is summarised. Useful bibliographies are appended as footnotes to leading sections of the book.

Lehrbuch der organischen Chemie.

Von Prof. Dr. Paul Karrer. Pp. xxi + 884. (Leipzig: Georg Thieme, 1928.) 34 gold marks.