book vontil~uesthe use of "rertrliou ro-
~ d
ordinate diagrams'' ilk wlrivh the rbsrissa
has uu mealliug.
The typography seems dear and I
found no typogritphieal errors. Tlrp
figures are generally well drawn and illum-
iuating. I found unly one trivial error ill a
figure.
All iu all, this book should significantly
enrich most beginning orgsnir. chemistry
courser, alld it should uot he beyowl the-
abilities of their students. I inlend to use
it for my course.
.\I.AI.KICE A l . KHEETDI
I'nivrrsil!, of Minncsolrr
.Ilinnmpolia
Physical Methods in inorganic
Chemistry
Russell S. D m p , 1:niversily of 1llinui.-.
Urbarm Reillhold Publishil,g C o q . ,
New Ywk, I ! . sviii +430 pp.
Figs. aid tables. 16 X 2 3 5 rm,
14.50.
111 a prefatory stat,ement by the ?on-
culliug editors the reader is reminded that
there are numerous books whivh provide
the baser for applirstion of physirnl metlr-
nds to illorgallir. or organic chemistry, hot
that, "There are, however, few hooks
whirh within a single vnlume, treat the
more imporla~tt physiral methods in a.
manner which makes it convenient for ihr
student or p r a r t i v i ~ qrhemist t o lean, how
to use ~ a v hmethod and t h e kind of iufor-
rnatiuu which can he ohtained h o m each."
This book and the course for (or f t ~ r n )
whirh i t was prepared are dearly addressed
to that admirable goal.
It is 1101 usual for many universities to
present a raurxe of thii type al present for
the seuior 01. first year graduate dudent,
hut granted the existewe of such a pro-
gram, the11 Professor Ilrago's test appears
lo be well considered both with respect t o
content and to level. There are three
int~ndurtot.yrhapters on atomic structure
and bondiug, induding inlrodurtiour t o
ligand field and molerulrr orbital theory,
whirh serve as a basis for the resl of the
material. No1.mal1.v the :;tudeota should
have been exposed lo wrlr material in the
more usual sort of senior or heginning
graduate course in inorgmir chemistry,
but the iwlusin~lof these chapters would
make it possihle to present a self-contained
course, with little prior k~mvledgeof ill-
organic chemistry (aside from a hit of
knowledge of some of the farts of inorganic
chemistry) being required.
The physiral methods whirh are rotr-
sidered can all be classed xi;spectroscopic
methods, including mass spectroscopy.
The topic.; are, in order, symmetry,
character tables, etc., leading t o a general
introduction t o spectroscopy and then t,o
electronic spectroscopy (visible and ultra-
violet absorption spectrometry), vibra-
tional and rotational (infrared, Raman,
and microwave), nuclear magnetic res-
onance, electron spin resonance, hIBss-
bauer, and mass speetroscopy.
222 / Journal o f Chemical Education
11, ad, chapter the fundamentel
principles are introdured and then the
kiuds of i~lformat,iont o be obtained, the
iimiratiow of the method, aud same ex-
amples of xppliretions (drawn heavily
from Prafessol. Drsgo's own rnwan.11) of
each method are desrribed. The level a1
whirh the presentation is aimed seems t o
be well chosen. The student or rhemict,
uninitiated ill a particular mdlrod, ought
to benble to reed this text (perhaps eveu ill
bed) a ~ i d determine whether a given
m ~ t h o dwould be suited t o his needs. FIR
n.uuld probably learn enough about the
method to read further or ronsult with
wme expert and pursue a solution l o hi.;
o s u problem.
I n gel~eralthe orgallisation and a-riting
i . ~good, hut there are places where strings
<,f thoughts or sentenres, begiming ill
. t h i s " ur"that," leave one in douht about,
the auteredents and henre the memings.
The1.e are also some unfortnimte typo-
graphiral errors, particularly in formnlas.
The uninitiated student will rerlainly uot,
pi& out these errors and may yet some
ax,og ideas, whirh are or(v wrrerted after
mow intelwive study.
01,the whole Professor llrago has put
togel her a well cunreived and useful hook,
whirh .should he of service to the sludenl,
;ind the prwti~.inginorganir rhemist, who
n-nnti to ?heck on physical methods which
msy lie heyolcd his personal rompetenw.
I expect that it will be found on the hoak-
..helve. of most it~wgenir rhemists, hut
~ . i i t w predict
~t how widely it may fiwi use
a s a lesthook.
CARL11. B I L T . B A IJw. ~ ? , paper chrrmntography. The next two
d l irhiyan Slate l~nitw..~il!, elmpters rutltni~lexperimenls designed to
Easl I.on.sU,q
Steady-State Applications in
Enzyme Kinetics
Chnrlo. l,ValtP~.,U~~iversit~y of Tennessee,
3lernphis. The Ronald Press Co.,
Sen- york, 1965. vi + 263 pp. Figs.
and talk*. 16 X 24 rm. $12.
This hook represents a u~tified treat-
ment of t h r steady-st,at,e equations in
enzyme kiuetirs. The emphasis is on the
m a t h e m a t i d relabionship between me&--
wed rates and kinetic aoust.ants rather
tlran on the vhemistry of enzyme react.ions.
The book opens with three introductory
vhapters on nomenclature, a stimulating
short historical account and therma-
dyanmirr. Startiug from Chapter 4, the
author gives an admirable disnwsion of
produvt conrentrat,ion as a. funrtiolr of
time. Dim!! and Wehh's treat.ment of the
nothor's own contributions t o more com-
plex euzyme mechanisms, ordered se-
quences, and reversible enzyme react,ionr.
The last rhapt,er gives a brief discosrion of
integrated rate equations and a list of
same useful integrated expressions.
Some of the examples could be made
more interest,ing by illustrations s i t h
actual experimental data instead of
hypothetiral reaction curves. There are
occasional misprints where equations are
inrorrectly numbered, 4 and [A) are r ?
indiscriminately, etc. On the whole this
hook is very well written, and in spite of its
title which naturally limits the scope to
the more rlasieel asioect of enrvme
kinetics, stndent.~and researchers alike
d l find the hook a ronvenient and ,wef~ll
Advanced Practical Inorganic Chemistry
D. hl. A d n m arid I. B. Rounor, Uni-
versity of Leirester, England. .John
\\'iley and Sons, Inc., New \.-ork, 1965.
niv + Ifi" pp. Figs. a~hd tables.
15.5 X 23.3 cm. 36.
This book rolwhts oE a coller.tion of
experiments illu-;trating strilctural,
snelytieal, nlcd preparative aspects of
inorganic rlremizlry. Tire experiment,^
in the first chapter illvolve the nra~lipnlsr
tion of balls and polyhedra L x the $Itldy
of solid state i;trwt,tmes. Tlip secnud
chapter gives dirertions for eapei.irnentally
determining the itoirhiometry of vario~ls
reactions, m r h s i that betweell ironiII)
ions and perrnangsnate ions. The lhi1.d
,:hapt.er gives very hrief d~seription*of,
and experinwtti involving, techniqoesmch
as flame photometry, ion esrlia~>ge, and
aequaiut the sttldeut with the chemistry of
selected elemwts from the periodic tahle.
Among the experiments are ornny syn-
theses, mostly laken from t,he ' I ~ m r g a n i r
Syntheses" series, \V. G. Palmer's ''h>x-
perimental Illorganic Chemistry'' (Cam-
bridge, 1954), strd IT. F. Walton'i "In-
organic Pr~pamtions" (Pwutiv-IIdl,
1048). The f i t d frmrteen c1raptel.i are
short expositions of variotw advanced
techniques s ~ a% ~ infrared
h spe~~lroscopy,
high-temperature preparations, vaeuim-
line preparations, and narr-sq~~eo~ls id-
vents. Some wdl-rho.ien syutheses are
incl~~ded to iIlit*trate these i d ~ n i q u e s ,
h ~ l ti ~ rmmly ra-e.: the directiwr.; are so
abbreviated t h a t most studeuti n-crdd
have difficult>-in ohlaining good yieldn.
The authors lrave not given r d i l to
all their sources of material. 3lill.h of
their disc~~ssion, on pages 25-28, of the
~chararterisalion of sodium t~~iphasphr~te
and Lriphosphoric acid has hren lifted
from pages .5G and 147-148 in my lexl,
"Syuthetic Innrgauir Chemirtv?' (Prew
tire-Hdl, 1960).
Some of the experiments (sllrli as those
involving the qualitative study of the
chemistry of the elements and the h i -
rhiometry of reactions) wollld be ap-
propriate for freshmen. Other esperi-
rnents (mch as the syntheses of the phos-
phonitrilic halides and bis(~-eyclnpeota-
dienyl)titaoium(IV)dichloride) r o t d d be
appropriate for seniors and graduale
studeuts. T h e discusions of synthetic
techniques and methods of characlerisa-
tion are generally too brief to be of much
use. Thus it is hard to imagine where t,lii.;