using this method unless there is very good reason for doing so, especially since it is very sensitive to impurities in the estracts and to moisture, making it difficult to get reproducible results”, This sentence occurs opposite to a very valuable unpublished chart of an “equieluotropic series”. Truly, NENER’S work deserves better treatment than that.
E. HEFTMANN(Pasadena)
Io~ze~zaa~stazcscIt-C~~~~o~~~a~o~~a~~~~e, by ICo~r
DORFNER, Altademie-Verlag,
Berlin,
This book is a descriptive account of ion escllange chromatography and is divided equally into sections on techniques and inorganic and organic applications, Though it is the third account of ion exchange that has appeared of late (the others are by 0. SAMXELSON and by J. INCZED\-) it has neither the personal touch of the first nor the descriptions of complete analytical methods which make the latter so valuable. The literature dealt with (946 references) contains few papers published in rg6o and none later than IgGo while SAM:UELSON’S book which appeared earlier in 1963 includes papers published in 1961. Most fields of application are mentioned in the various chapters, but the unclerlying principles are not well explained in all cases nor are numerical data given. The book can be recommended as an introduction, perhaps also as a text book. It falls somewhat short as a work of reference and handbook. It is attractively produced and only minor printing errors were noted. .J.
Cl~m~ac~tog.,
IS
(1905)
202
A.~zn&tiscke A~~we~dzc?z~e~~ ~101% lolae?za,tsstnzcscl~er7t, by J.&OS INCZ~I>Y, Verlag der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Budapest, 1964, 365 pp., price Dfl. 160. The author has written what at fir& sight appears to be only another orthodos account of ion eschange. There are, however, a number of attractive features in this book. The most important of these for the analytical chemist is that numerous complete analytical methods are reported in full and that the author and his collaborators have checked most of them personally. Org&ic applications of ion es&angers are briefly but adequately discussed in about 40 pages, again with numerous complete methods. Two final chapters deal with miscellaneous topics such as the purification of water, of rejgents, and the concentration of ions, both with ion exchange membranes and ion eschange papers. The book is attractively produced, and the reviewer found only unimportant errors. J.
Clwomalog.,
x8
(1965)
202