Book Review: Introduction to the Principles of Heterogeneous Catalysis. By J. M. Thomas and W. J. Thomas

✍ Scribed by G.-M. Schwab

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 156 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.196804862

✦ Synopsis

need no explanation. There are 462 pages, containing almost 1000 examples selected from the literature between 1964 and 1966. The value as specifications for synthesis goes beyond that of individual cases, and can thus serve as a welcome stimulus for original work. Embraced are starting materials, products, and methods spanning the whole of organic chemistry. It is evident that the synthesis of carbocyclic and heterocyclic compounds is progressively gaining in importance. Reading the "Trends in Synthetic Organic Chemistry" (7 pages, 86 refs.) is particularly stimulating; this contains well-defined novel syntheses. A well arranged and very detailed subject index (112 pages) considerably assists orientation, especially if the classification system used is not to the readers's liking. It is necessary once agairi to consider whether the mass of information compiled between the covers of the 21 volumes would not be even more accessible with the aid of a cumulative index in the form of a punched card register.