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Chemical applications of infrared spectroscopy
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Chemical Applications of Infrared Spectroscopy. Academic Press, New York, 1963. xiii + 683 pp. $19.50.
By
The Preface states that “This volume aims to present the basic ments and techniques of infrared spectroscopy and to survey, as sible, its chemical applications.” It further specifies that “This designed for students, technicians and research workers as a work. . . .” In the opinion of the reviewers, the author, in the goal, although a considerable portion of this treatise is devoted updated, that is in fact available in other books.
C. N.
R. RAO.
concepts, measurecompletely as posvolume has been text or reference main, achieves his to material, albeit
Thus, the first chapter (118 pp.) deals with the basic concepts, instrumentation, and techniques of infrared spectroscopy. It includes a bibliography on the location of infrared data. The next six chapters (225 pp.) contain a discussion of the usual group frequencies of hydrocarbons; oxygenated organic compounds; organic nitrogen compounds; organ0 derivatives of boron, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, halogens, and, briefly, organometallic compounds; and inorganic compounds, including transition metal complexes. Specific applications in organic chemistry including conformational analysis, steroids, steroidal sapogenins, terpenic compounds, carbohydrates, lipids, alkaloids, flavones, flavanones and flavanols, antibiotics, and a few miscellaneous examples of the use of infrared spectroscopy in structure elucidation are covered in Chapter VIII (98 pp.),. Specific applications in biochemistry, including amino acids, peptides and proteins, chelates and enzymes, nucleic acids, steroids, lipids, carbohydrates, bacteria and viruses, and a few miscellaneous examples such as vitamin K homologues are incorporated in Chapter IX (36 pp.). The final three chapters comprise high polymers (18 pp.) including polypeptides and proteins; quantitative analysis (22 pp.) dealing with organic and inorganic compounds; and miscellaneous topics (50 pp.) covering specialized areas such as charge transfer complexes, adsorbed molecules, and the matrix isolation technique. There is an appendix of correlation charts for group frequencies in organic substances and an interesting summary of spurious bands that occur at specific frequencies or that might occur at any frequency. The book concludes with an author and a subject index. Students may adjudge the cost of the book prohibitive, and technicians will probably find only part of the first chapter of any practical use to them. Although each chapter contains an abundance of references and the author covers the near, medium, and far infrared regions wherever possible, the paucity of complete spectral curves detracts from the utility of this volume as an independent reference work. Nevertheless, for those who desire a survey of the chemical applications of infrared spectroscopy, particularly in the specialized areas mentioned above, this book presents a new and very valuable compilation of spectral dam. U. S. Vitamin
MARVIN J. KAFCTENAND JAMES R. SEROFF, & Pharmaceutical Corp., Yonkers, New York
BOOK
REVIEWS
Chemical Applications of Infrared Spectroscopy. Academic Press, New York, 1963. xiii + 683 pp. $19.50.
By
The Preface states that “This volume aims to present the basic ments and techniques of infrared spectroscopy and to survey, as sible, its chemical applications.” It further specifies that “This designed for students, technicians and research workers as a work. . . .” In the opinion of the reviewers, the author, in the goal, although a considerable portion of this treatise is devoted updated, that is in fact available in other books.
C. N.
R. RAO.
concepts, measurecompletely as posvolume has been text or reference main, achieves his to material, albeit
Thus, the first chapter (118 pp.) deals with the basic concepts, instrumentation, and techniques of infrared spectroscopy. It includes a bibliography on the location of infrared data. The next six chapters (225 pp.) contain a discussion of the usual group frequencies of hydrocarbons; oxygenated organic compounds; organic nitrogen compounds; organ0 derivatives of boron, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, halogens, and, briefly, organometallic compounds; and inorganic compounds, including transition metal complexes. Specific applications in organic chemistry including conformational analysis, steroids, steroidal sapogenins, terpenic compounds, carbohydrates, lipids, alkaloids, flavones, flavanones and flavanols, antibiotics, and a few miscellaneous examples of the use of infrared spectroscopy in structure elucidation are covered in Chapter VIII (98 pp.),. Specific applications in biochemistry, including amino acids, peptides and proteins, chelates and enzymes, nucleic acids, steroids, lipids, carbohydrates, bacteria and viruses, and a few miscellaneous examples such as vitamin K homologues are incorporated in Chapter IX (36 pp.). The final three chapters comprise high polymers (18 pp.) including polypeptides and proteins; quantitative analysis (22 pp.) dealing with organic and inorganic compounds; and miscellaneous topics (50 pp.) covering specialized areas such as charge transfer complexes, adsorbed molecules, and the matrix isolation technique. There is an appendix of correlation charts for group frequencies in organic substances and an interesting summary of spurious bands that occur at specific frequencies or that might occur at any frequency. The book concludes with an author and a subject index. Students may adjudge the cost of the book prohibitive, and technicians will probably find only part of the first chapter of any practical use to them. Although each chapter contains an abundance of references and the author covers the near, medium, and far infrared regions wherever possible, the paucity of complete spectral curves detracts from the utility of this volume as an independent reference work. Nevertheless, for those who desire a survey of the chemical applications of infrared spectroscopy, particularly in the specialized areas mentioned above, this book presents a new and very valuable compilation of spectral dam. U. S. Vitamin
MARVIN J. KAFCTENAND JAMES R. SEROFF, & Pharmaceutical Corp., Yonkers, New York