General college mathematics: by W. L. Ayres, Cleota G. Fry and H. F. S. Jonah. 283 pages, diagrams, 16 × 24 cm. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1952. Price, $3.75

• Book ID: 103076517
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1952
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 97 KB
• Volume: 254
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(52)90175-0

✦ 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.

JAMES F. ROTH