An Introduction to Organic Chemistry

THE book provides an admirable general introduction to the subject and will commend itself both to student and teacher for its simplicity of approach. The latter is achieved by concentrating attention on the structure, reactions and interrelationships of the more important groups which continually recur in organic compounds by a study of the simplest members containing them. This restriction of scope undoubtedly has great advantages, but it inevitably deprives organic chemistry of what is, to many students, one of its most attractive features, its association with naturally occurring coin-pounds of biological significance. Excellent detailed accounts of some fifty-six experiments, illustrated with clear line drawings, are included at the end of each chapter.An Introduction to Organic ChemistryDr.J. W.BakerBy. (Dent's Modern Science Series.) Pp. vii+177. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1941.) 3s.