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AT the present time organic chemistry is enjoying one of its recurrent periods of profuse activity: an activity manifest in two main directions. In the first, great and impressive advances are being made in the difficult task of unravelling the molecular structures of complex compounds of profound physiological and biological significance. A second characteristic feature of modern organic chemistry is its growing concern with the mechanism of reactions, and great efforts are being made to reach an understanding and eventual solution of this group of problems. In their elucidation the methods of physical chemistry and of physics find as much, if not more, application than do the classical methods of organic chemistry.
Modern Theories of Organic Chemistry
By Dr. H. B. Watson. Second, edition. Pp. viii + 268. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1941.) 17s. 6d. net.
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KENYON, J. MODERN THEORIES OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Nature 149, 121–122 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149121a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149121a0
