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Analytical chemistry of phosphorus compounds
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Analytical Chemistry of Phosphorus Compounds. Edited by M, HALMANN, Willey (Interscience), New York, 1972. X + 850 pp. $39.95.
Phosphorus, like carbon, occurs in a wide range of compounds, many of which have a strong influence on man’s life and health. Phosphorus-bearing pesticides, lipids, fetrtilizers, detergent builders, sugar nucleotides, 0x0 acids, etc., often require elegant slnd sensitive analytical methods for their determination. This book reviews the techniques and methodology for such analyses and should ,appeal to anyone doing any type of work in the area of phosphorus chemistry. The broad scope of subject matter is especially impressive. Twenty-two chapters are divided into four sections covering separation methods, identification methods, compound groups and specific materials. Techniques ranging from gravimetric determination of rammonium molybdophosphate, to homonuclear decoupling of a1PNMR spectra, to palper electrophoresis of sugar phosphates are treated by expert authors, many of whom have pioneered the development of a particular field of chemistry. Except for high-pressure liquid chromatography, practically every popular analytiical technique is discussed in relation to phosphorus compounds. The older, more established techniques such as chromatography, NMR, and ir receive extensive coveriage in chapters dealing with the individual techniques and in chapters concerned with compound groups and specific materials. Extensive tables of NMR and ir data are presented for a wide variety of compounds and functional groups. Wet chemical methods for analysis of total phosphorus in many different matrices are detailed in one chaplter. Of interest to many workers will be the review chapters on phosphorus halidles, phosphorus oxides and 0x0 acids, phosphorus-nitrogen compounds and cyclophosplhazenes, phosphorus-sulfur compounds, phosphoranes and organophosphorus ins;ecticides. For convenience, discussions of technique as applied to a particular compound group are referenced to the chapters dealing with the technique in detail. Literature treferences for all chapters are abundant and up-to-date. As Volume 37 in a series of monographs on analytical chemistry and its applicatisns, edited by P. J. Elving and I. M. Kolthoff, this book succeeds in its stated objective: of covering the most predominant aspects of phosphorus analysis, and typifies the intterdisciplinary nature of analytical chemistry. One can easily see this text becoming a source book for phosphorus chemistry to be used by analytical chemists, inorgamic chemists, and biochemists. HOWARD SIEGERMAN,Princeton Applied Research Corporutiion, Princeton, Carbon-13 NMR Spectroscopy.
New Jersey 08540
By J. B. STOTHERS.Academic Press, New York,
1972. xi + 559 pp. $24.00. Among the number of different volumes appearing in recent years on the topic: of nuclear magnetic resonance, this book has a clearly defined goal and it fulfills this goal admirably. There is a brief description of the techniques of carbon magnetic resonance measurrements which description is somewhat outdated since with the recent proliferation1 of fast Fourier Transform instruments many of the problems posed by the low natural abundance and low sensitivity of the 13Cnucleus have been eliminated. (The book mientions but does not describe the Fourier Transform approach which topic, however, is adequately treated in several other recently published books.) There follow two major segments of the book, one concerned with 13C chemiical
BOOK
REVIEWS
Analytical Chemistry of Phosphorus Compounds. Edited by M, HALMANN, Willey (Interscience), New York, 1972. X + 850 pp. $39.95.
Phosphorus, like carbon, occurs in a wide range of compounds, many of which have a strong influence on man’s life and health. Phosphorus-bearing pesticides, lipids, fetrtilizers, detergent builders, sugar nucleotides, 0x0 acids, etc., often require elegant slnd sensitive analytical methods for their determination. This book reviews the techniques and methodology for such analyses and should ,appeal to anyone doing any type of work in the area of phosphorus chemistry. The broad scope of subject matter is especially impressive. Twenty-two chapters are divided into four sections covering separation methods, identification methods, compound groups and specific materials. Techniques ranging from gravimetric determination of rammonium molybdophosphate, to homonuclear decoupling of a1PNMR spectra, to palper electrophoresis of sugar phosphates are treated by expert authors, many of whom have pioneered the development of a particular field of chemistry. Except for high-pressure liquid chromatography, practically every popular analytiical technique is discussed in relation to phosphorus compounds. The older, more established techniques such as chromatography, NMR, and ir receive extensive coveriage in chapters dealing with the individual techniques and in chapters concerned with compound groups and specific materials. Extensive tables of NMR and ir data are presented for a wide variety of compounds and functional groups. Wet chemical methods for analysis of total phosphorus in many different matrices are detailed in one chaplter. Of interest to many workers will be the review chapters on phosphorus halidles, phosphorus oxides and 0x0 acids, phosphorus-nitrogen compounds and cyclophosplhazenes, phosphorus-sulfur compounds, phosphoranes and organophosphorus ins;ecticides. For convenience, discussions of technique as applied to a particular compound group are referenced to the chapters dealing with the technique in detail. Literature treferences for all chapters are abundant and up-to-date. As Volume 37 in a series of monographs on analytical chemistry and its applicatisns, edited by P. J. Elving and I. M. Kolthoff, this book succeeds in its stated objective: of covering the most predominant aspects of phosphorus analysis, and typifies the intterdisciplinary nature of analytical chemistry. One can easily see this text becoming a source book for phosphorus chemistry to be used by analytical chemists, inorgamic chemists, and biochemists. HOWARD SIEGERMAN,Princeton Applied Research Corporutiion, Princeton, Carbon-13 NMR Spectroscopy.
New Jersey 08540
By J. B. STOTHERS.Academic Press, New York,
1972. xi + 559 pp. $24.00. Among the number of different volumes appearing in recent years on the topic: of nuclear magnetic resonance, this book has a clearly defined goal and it fulfills this goal admirably. There is a brief description of the techniques of carbon magnetic resonance measurrements which description is somewhat outdated since with the recent proliferation1 of fast Fourier Transform instruments many of the problems posed by the low natural abundance and low sensitivity of the 13Cnucleus have been eliminated. (The book mientions but does not describe the Fourier Transform approach which topic, however, is adequately treated in several other recently published books.) There follow two major segments of the book, one concerned with 13C chemiical