Laboratory Methods of Organic Chemistry

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THIS is one of the classic textbooks of the organic chemist; there can be few who have not made use of it at the beginning of their manipulative training even in Great Britain, and the reviewer can plead guilty to struggling with the first edition, dated Heidelberg, August, 1894, in the original German in his student days. In issuing the nineteenth edition from Freiburg in 1925, H. Wieland, the successor to Gattermann, emphasized the fact that the equipment which sufficed during the last three decades has now become insufficient for those who desire to work at present-day problems, so that in rewriting the book the theoretical and practical requirements have been deliberately increased. We now have the twenty-second edition dated from Munich in July, 1930, with the English translator's date of April, 1932, which shows many changes, all directed to place the student in contact with modern fields of inquiry. Thus, two enzyme preparations have been included, and a biochemical flavour, showing the trend of the times, is also imparted by the preparation of natural compounds, such as furfural, glucose, arginine, nicotine, haemin and the constituents of bile. Laboratory Methods of Organic Chemistry. By L. Gattermann. Completely revised by Heinrich Wieland. Translated from the Twenty-second German Edition by Dr. W. McCartney. Pp. xvii + 416. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1932.) 17s. net.