which was the opportunity to review in a emphasis in current surface chemistry.
Var-
book reviews
culus is used in this section.
The hook is well illustrated both with line
drawings illustrating the experimental
methods for making many measurements and
with photographs of actual equipment. Many
of the descriotions are well done t i w a student
teat and problems a t the end.
The author states that this hook is "in
that would translate into"primarily meeting
the requirementsof persons needing aquick
review of a modern general chemistry
course."
HalbeR H. Carmichaal
Norfh Caroiina State University
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Physical Chemistry
Gordon M. Barrow. MeGraw-Hill. New
~ork,~1979. +
v 832 pp. Figs.andtables.24
X 16.5 cm. $23.00.
Earlier editions bf this text appeared in
J. Chem. Educ. 1980.57:A22.
1961,1966,and 1973. The second edition was
reviewed in this Journal (43,A1006 (1966)).
In common with its predecessors,this edition
integrates the macr~scopieand atomic-mo-
lecular aspects af phenomena, and those who
liked this feature of the earlier editions will
find it here also.
About 50 pages of new material has heen
added. The mast significant is a 28-page
chapter on symmetry and group theory,
covering symmetry elements, point groups,
transformation matrices, and character ta-
bles, with examples of appliiations to mo-
lecular vibrations and crystal fields. Other
additions include s discussion of intermo-
lecular forces using the Lennard-Jones ap-
proach; a moie detailed derivation of the
hydrogen atom wave functions, including use
of complex functions (but without a clear
statement about the relationships of the
complex exponential functions to the real
trieonometric ones. which are also riven): a
a h m discuspion d nrutron diiiraetim with
applirnticm lo the rlructure ( 8 1 a monlt0tnic
liquid; and an expanded section (now given
the .rntus v i a srparatr rilnpler, on ~'hc,ro-
I hrmiitry. The numl,er ufpr.hlrms hm w t een
suh~tanriallvincreased. frum 44.I inthetllird
edition to 6?9 in the fourth.
To keep the number of pages from in-
creasing excessively, some material has been
rearranged and consolidated. Chapters 18
and 19 of the third edition, which contained
discussions of the thermodynamics of solids
and liquids, have disappeared, the material
being incorporated into earlier chapters on
thermodynamia and thermochemistry. Also,
the chapters on phase equilibria and ther-
modynamics of multicomponent systems
have been moved forward, without major
revision; to follow the chapter on free energy.
These changes permit a more unified pre-
sentation of thermodynamics. On the other
hand, these changes have diminished what I
considered one of the advantages of the text,
A22 1 Journal of Chemical Education
natural manner the principles presented
early in the text as various applications are
brought up.
SI "nib were introduced in the third edi-
tim,schnngr rhnt led t < ,many small e r n r i ,
starting wirh inwrrrct units for I'lnnrk'%
wnstnnt un the inside from awer. 4l<r\r'oi
the errors have been corrected in the fourth
edition, although anew one has appearedon
the cover-the standard molar gas volume is
given as 24.414 liters. Cgsunits are stillused
for magnetic quantities, which contrasts with
the treatment of electrical properties in SI
units earlier in the same chapter. The phys-
ical appearance and readability of the book
are good, hut theuse of color in headings and
diagrams, a feature of the second and third
editions, has been discontinued.
Gordon B. Linner
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
Chemistry of the Metal- as Interface
M . W . Roberts and C. S. McKee, Oxford
+
University Press, NY, 1979. xiv 594 pp.
Figs. and tables. 22 X 14 em. 965.00
As noted in the statement on the cover,
surface chemistry has been revolutionized by
recent advances in experimental techniques,
particularly the various electron speetros-
copies. These techniques have become so
diverse and specialized that noone can hope
to be an expert in all of them, yet, any worker
in the area of surface chemistry should be
aware of all of them and be able t o under-
research papers are presented in a positive
fashion, unless a reader is aware of the limi-
tations of a technique himself, a false im-
pression that all problems have been solved
mav be eained. I believe this book will be
some of their results.
In the preface it is stated that the authors
hope to provide a basic picture of gas-metal
interactions and aim t o put recent develap-
ments in the context of earlier endeavor. T o
this end, traditional studies including kinetic
and thermochemieal approaches are inelud-
ed. In general, the hook is successful in
achieving its stated aims.
In keeping with the authors intent to pro-
vide a book useful to students and those not
already experts in surface chemistry, the first
chapter reviews basic concepts of electrons in
solids, adsorption, surface characterization,
reactivity, thermoehemistry, and kinetics as
applied to surface. At the end of this chapter
as well as a plentiful supply of references to
specific paints in the chapter there is a list of
recent hooks dealing with various aspects of
surface chemistry.
The next two chapters deal with the crys-
tallography of metals and the use of low en-
ergy electron diffraction to determine surface
structure in about 120 pages. The devotion of
this much space to surface crystallography
reflects the current high interest in t h ~ rap-
s
idly developing area. This is an area that a
surface chemist cannot afford to remain ig-
norant about because of the mierosco~ic
ious spectroscopic techniques have been de-
veloped to determine the nature of adsorbed
species on well-defined surfaces. Chapter four
describes the numerous electron spectros-
copies with the emphasis on photoelectron
and Auger spectra. The next chapter deals
with the application of infrared and Raman
spectroscopy to surface problems and a brief
section on eleetron-stimulated desorption
and secondary-ion mass spectroscopy.
The next two chapters deal with macro-
scopic measurements. Chapter ~ i discusses
x
the kinetics of adsorption and desorption.
These kinetics follow from pressure mea-
surements of gases over clean metal surfaces
made possible by reliable high vacuum sys-
tems and reveal a variety of binding states for
chemisorbed molecules. Chapter 7 empha-
sizes the forces responsible for physical ad-
sorption. The next chapter describes the
physical models used to explain the kinetic
adsorption data.
Chapters 9 to 11are devoted to describing
the interaction of the four most studied small
molecules, CO, Hz, N) and 0%. on metalsur-
faces as revealed bv all techniaues. There has ~ ~~~
brm su much da&de< ted on rhesp systems
that it i~ wrtxinly gwxl to ser 11 all pulled
together.
The adsorption of alkalie metals on tran-
sition metal surfaces is covered in chapter 12.
I have not seen this topic reviewed elsewhere
recentlv. The interest in alkalie metal ad-
.
sorotion stems from their ornrtical uses and
~~~~ ~ ~ ~
the'assumption that the theoretical inter-
pretation should be relatively straightfor-
ward. This chapter also contains a very brief
introduction to quantum mechanical de-
scriptions of chemisorption.
The last chapter proposes t o discuss the
impact of the new techniques on heterage-
m a u s catalysis. This chapter is quite short
because there seems to me to he relatively
little impact on catalysis as such, however,
this book really does not intend to deal with
catalysis. For students and those wishing t o
know more about the area, this hook is an
excellent introduction to the many recent
develonments in surface chemistrv. For the
aperinliit it providers y ~ o doven iew d the
uholr men tu pur aprrialkd work in per-
spective.
George Blyholder
Univemity of Arkansas
Fayeneviiie, AR 72701
Organometallic Mechanlsms and Catalysis
Jay K Kochi, Academic Press, New
York, 1979. v + 623 pp. Figs. and tables.
23.5 X 16 cm. $59.50.
Professor Kochi's new hook affords a
thorough treatment of the mechanisms of
catalytic and some paradigmatic stoichio-
metric processes involving orpanometallic
species. The oiganization departs consider-
ably from that of many monographs in the
field by not being based on the reaction type
or the metal involved. Rather the subject is
divided into three supporting and overlap-
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