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A First Course in Computing and Nu­merical Methods. J. A. Jacquez, xvi + 365 pages. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., Reading, Mass. 01867. 1970. $11.50

Reviewed by Ζ Ζ. Hugus, Jr., Head, De­partment of Chemistry, School of Physi­cal and Mathematical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Box 5247, Raleigh, N. C. 27607

Although this book is avowedly of utility in a junior-senior level course— it was devloped from the author's class notes in such a one-year course—it is also quite suitable for use in inde­pendent study by a chemist with a background of calculus plus an intro­duction to differential equations. For that purpose, it is warmly recom­mended as a clear introduction to both numerical anlysis and the casting of such an analysis into a procedure-oriented language, such as FORTRAN.

Linear algebra, a previous knowledge of which is not presumed, is treated in approximately 100 pages and ends with a chapter on linear programming including the simplex method. Of par­ticular value are the flow charts in these chapters which bridge the numerical analysis to a specific com­putation scheme.

Exercises at the end of the chapters are generally well conceived, but would be more valuable, certainly to the lone reader, if answers were provided to some of the examples. Since the author is a physiologist-biostatistician, many of the applications are biological. For a chemist, preferable applications are certainly available; however, this criti­cism is not intended to be a harsh one, and the examples do serve to give ap­plication to techniques which have been developed.

For the proper utilization of digital computation there are essentially three phases: (a) numerical analysis of the specific problem, (b) translation of the necessary steps of (a) into a user-oriented language—e.g., FORTRAN— utilizing subroutines that are locally available—e.g., matrix inversion and eigenvalue-eigenvector determination— and last, but by no means least, (c) debugging and running the program using a particular computer at a par­ticular site.

It should be remarked that (c) can

be vexing in the extreme, and, as if debugging were not enough trouble, merely running an operational program at some computing centers presents formidable difficulties on occasion. However, Jacquez's book, in conjunc­tion with one of the excellent program­ming manuals that is readily and in­expensively available, provides a fine introduction to using digital computa­tion in the sense of (a) and (b) above.

There are more advanced numeric-analytic techniques that one may have to apply to a particular computation, but this book will serve to orient one and—through the references given at the end of chapters and references— enable one to find if the problem in numerical analysis has in fact been solved. The only difficulty here may be that the references given mostly date from the mid-60's or earlier, and some of the recent achievements in numerical analysis will not be found.

Infrared Band Handbook, Vols. 1 and 2, 2nd ed. Herman A. Szymanski and Ronald E. Erickson. xii - f 1491 pages. Plenum Publishing Corp., 114 Fifth Ave., New York, Ν. Υ. 10011. 1970. $115

Reviewed by Walter W. Morris, Jr., De­partment of Health, Education, and Wel­fare, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D. C. 20204

These volumes generally follow the format in the first Handbook. The number of band positions tabulated has been increased to approximately 28,000 for more than 3200 compounds. The region of the infrared spectrum has been expanded to include frequencies from 4240 to 29 cm"1.

The primary aim of the Handbook is to aid in the identification of un­known organic or inorganic compounds by a novel method. The principal band position of a large number of compounds is listed. Each band posi­tion has a coded designation indicating the relative intensity. Another item indicates the physical state of the ma­terial when the spectrum was recorded or, if applicable, the solvent used. In some cases the concentration and cell thickness are given. An item called special information may, for example,

list the dispersive element used or the prism material. Where appropriate, the structural group to which the vi­bration was assigned in the original reference and the mode of vibration are given. Reference numbers for pertinent literature are listed.

Among the reasons for compiling this second edition of the Handbook are to make possible the searching of specific wavelength regions for com­pounds having absorptions in the region and to assign vibrations for a compound by noting assignments for similar compounds. This Handbook is also useful for obtaining literature references. Seemingly optimum sam­pling conditions are given for many compounds, and there are many possi-bilties for finding new group frequen­cies for small groups of closely related compounds. There is also the index of bands using the molecular formula.

The Handbook of expensive, but for researchers engaged in interpretation of infrared spectra, it is very well worth the price.

Ion Exchange in Analytical Chemistry. William Rieman III and Harold F. Walton, xiii - f 294 pages. Perga-mon Press, Inc., Maxwell House, Fair-view Park, Elmsford, Ν. Υ. 10523. 1970. $17.50

Reviewed by James S. Fritz, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010

This book was written to provide analytical chemists with " . . . a broad survey of the role that ion exchange can and should play in chemical analy­sis." Chapters on the following topics are included: Introduction (mostly synthesis of ion exchange resins), gen­eral properties of resins, ion exchange equilibrium, kinetics, nonchroma-tographic applications, theory of ion exchange chromatography, technique, applications of ion exchange chroma­tography, salting-out chromatography and related methods, less common ion exchangers (macroreticular resins, ion retardation resins, ion exchange mem­branes, inorganic ion exchangers, ion exchange resin paper, and cellulosic ion exchangers), and study of complex ions.

The chapter on "Aplications of Ion-

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Four-Language Technical Dictionary of Chromatography. Hans-Peter An-gele, Editor. Pergamon Press, inc.. Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elms-ford, Ν. Υ. 10523. 1970. $13.50

This multilingual dictionary of chro­matography serves as an essential sup­plement to the technical dictionaries and reference works already in exis­tence. I t contains some 3000 specialist terms in English, German, French, and Russian.

Perspectives in Structural Chemistry, Vol. 3. J. D. Dunitz and J. A. Ibers, Editors, ix + 259 pages. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Ave., New York, Ν. Υ. 10016. 1970. $14.95

Nearly all chemistry is in a sense structural chemistry, but the authors in this series have taken a more restrictive point of view and rather arbitrarily de­fined structural chemistry as that part of chemistry which deals with the met­ric aspects of structure. The articles presented in this volume include: "Crystallographic Shear and the Nio­bium Oxides and Oxide Fluorides in the Composition Region M X „ 2.4 < χ < 2.7," by A. D. Wadsley and Sten An­derson; "Molecular Crystals: Inter-molecular Potentials and Equilibrium Structures," by R. Mason; "Structural Studies on Transition-Metal Complexes Containing σ-Bonded Carbon Atoms," by Melvyn R. Churchill; and "Stereo­chemical Aspects of Organophosphorus Compounds," by J. J. Daly. This vol­ume also contains an author index, as well as a cumulative subject index for Volumes I, II , and I I I .

Dictionary of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. German/English. Vol. 1. Louis De Vries and Helga Kelb. vii + 708 pages. Verlag Chemie, GmBH, D-6940 Weinheim/Bergstr., Postfach 129/149, Germany. 1970. DM 135

This German/English technical dic­tionary has a comprehensive vocabulary of chemical and technical terms suitable for students of science, practicing sci­entists, particularly chemists, and for engineers and technical translators. The areas of inorganic, organic, physi­cal, pharmaceutical, and electrochem­istry have been dealt with thoroughly, and many new terms have been listed. An alphabetical list of the chemical ele­ments, a tabulation of German weights and measures, as well as a table and rules for temperature conversion and calculation, are given in the Appendix.

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