Book review: The systematic identification of organic compounds. Ralph L. Shriner, Christine K.F. Hermann, Terence C. Morrill, David Y. Curtin and Reynold C. Fuson. ISBN 0–471–59748–1 Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1998, 7th edn xiii + 669 pages. £27.50
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 25 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0268-2605
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✦ Synopsis
stabilization of otherwise unstable E 2 and RE=ER species are also highlighted.
Readers of this journal might be interested in Chapter 8 on 'Environmental and medicinal chemistry', by J. Reglinski. This is a short contribution but deals with general environmental problems, and particularly ways in which arsenic is incorporated via arsenosugars, lipid arsenates etc. into living matter. Section 8.4 begins with the sentence 'The Group 15 elements have a rich if somewhat dubious history of their use as medicines prior to the turn of the century'. Indeed the medicinal uses of arsenic and antimony have been declining for obvious reasons since then, but claims are being made for antimony therapy proving useful in the treatment of some parasitic diseases where resistance has been developed to standard organic therapies. The final chapter, by H. Onishi, is concerned with analytical methods, ranging from bench-top gravimetric and volumetric methods to more sophisticated mass-spectrometric, neutron-activation and atomic-emission methods.
Price dictates that this is a book for libraries but it should be made widely available as a ready source of information on elements in which increasing numbers of chemists have interests.