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Fleas, flukes and cuckoos: by Miriam Rothschild and Theresa Clay. 304 pages, plates, 16 × 22 cm. New York, The Philosophical Library, 1952. Prices, $8.75

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1952
Tongue: English
Weight: 97 KB
Volume: 254
Category: Article
ISSN: 0016-0032
DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(52)90173-7

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✦ Synopsis

The discussion of acid-base catalysis is concerned largely with the quantitative relationships which have been experimentally observed to govern the kinetics of reactions subject to general catalysis.

Consideration of the mechanism of acid-base catalysis is brief and limited, in the case of keto-enol tautomerism, to the familiar Pedersen concept of a duality of mechanism.

Complete omission of Swain's recently proposed mechanism (involving concerted electrophilic-nucleophilic attack on the substrate) is somewhat regrettable because of its possible significance to the general theory of homogeneous catalysis.

The book serves, however, as a valuable introduction to the Bronsted-Lowry concept of acids and bases and utilizes prominent experimental evidence to illustrate the various subjects under discussion.

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