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U.K. He was president of the Institu-
tion of Corrosion Technology. He was
chairman of a committee set up by
the British Ministry of Technology to
inquire into all aspects of the cost of
corrosion and protection in the U.K.
and of such measures as may be nec-
essary to assist the dissemination of
corrosion knowledge and to improve
education in corrosion matters. He was
also on the committee of the newly
formed Society for Electrochemistry in
the U.K.
His scientific work brought him many
honors. He received the Whitney Award
from the National Association of Corro-
sion Engineers in 1946, the Hothersall
Medal of the Institute of Metal Finish-
ing in 1962, the Palladium Medal Award
of The Electrochemical Society in 1969,
and was the first recipient of the U.R.
Evans Award of the Institution of Corro-
sion Science and Technology in 1976.
Dr. Hoar traveled widely, being in-
vited on many occasions to lecture
in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand,
Chile, Argentina, and many European
countries. He was the host organizer
of the Third International Conference
on the Passivity of Metals at Cambridge,
England, in July 1970.
In spite of the demands of his ex-
tremely active career, Dr. Hoar found
time to pursue many other interests.
Among these were his involvement in
the summer theaters run by his wife,
Joan, as a theater manager. He was
also renowned in the corrosion com-
munity for his expert knowledge of
good food and wine.
The remarks made by Prof. Stuart
Leach upon the conferring of the first
U.R. Evans Award provide a measure
of the loss that will be felt by those
both within and without the corrosion
community. He said, "Dr. Hoar has
made a major contribution to the estab-
lishment and administration of bodies
concerned with corrosion prevention. He
has made a major contribution to edu-
cation in corrosion prevention. He has
made a major contribution to increasing
the corrosion awareness of our admin-
istrators and industrialists."
Along with these major contributions,
his friendliness, his quick wit, and
his marvelous sense of humor, which
enlivened many an international meet-
ing, will be surely missed.
BOOK Rs EWS
"Experimental Approach to Electrochem-
istry," by N. J. Selley. Published by
John Wiley & Sons, New York (1977).
219 pages, price unavailable.
"Experimental Approach to Electro-
chemistry" is intended as an introduc-
tion to electrochemistry. Each chapter
ends with a summary followed by a
problem set. The problems are well
chosen to illustrate the topics dis-
cussed in the chapter. Most of the
principles of electrochemistry which
are described in the text are demon-
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strated by experiments. The experi-
ments have been chosen to require a
minimum of equipment. Each experi-
ment is placed in the text at the point
at which the principle is discussed
rather than in a section at the end
of the book. The combination of dis-
cussion and "hands on" experience
should make the book quite useful to
the newcomer.
Several topics which are especially
well described include batteries, con-
ductivity, potentiometry, galvanic cells,
and electrolysis. A full chapter is de-
voted to technological applications in-
cluding electro-winning, electroplating,
electrochemical machining, anodizing,
cathodic protection against rust, and
fuel cells.
Another chapter is devoted to elec-
troanalytical methods. Electrogravi-
metry, coulometry, coulometric titra-
tions, conductimetry, conductimetric
titrations, potentiometry, potentiomet-
ric titrations, polarography, and am-
perometric titrations are briefly dis-
cussed. Unfortunately the text makes
no mention of pulse polarography, a-c
polarography, rapid-scan voltammetry,
cyclic voltammetry, or anodic stripping
voltammetry (inverse voltammetry).
The text appears to be free of mis-
takes with the exception of several
typographical errors. The most impor-
tant of these occurs on page 40 where
the text refers to a point "D" (which
is unlabeled) in a sketch of a Wheat-
stone Bridge circuit. Perhaps the great-
est fault in the text lies in the first
chapter which would have been much
more readable had the first page been
devoted to telling the reader the topics
to be covered in the remainder of the
book and to defining electrochemistry.
Since this text is liberally sprinkled
with industrial examples of the use of
electrochemistry, it can be highly rec-
ommended as an introduction to elec-
trochemistry to persons intending to
become industrial electrochemists, and
to practicing engineers seeking an in-
troduction to electrochemistry. This
book is well suited to individual study
and provides the opportunity for con-
siderable practical experience. The text
cannot be recommended to accom-
pany those electrochemistry courses
normally taught in chemistry depart-
ments in the United States and cer-
tainly cannot be recommended as a
text for a course in electroanalytical
methods.
Robert D. Braun
University of Southwestern Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana
"Aspects of Homogeneous Catalysis," A
Series of Advances, Vol. 3, edited by
R. Ugo. Published by D. Reidel Pub-
lishing Company, DordrechtHolland/
Boston (1977). 240 4- viii pages;
$39.50.
The volume is a group of three
reviews of the literature devoted to
three different aspects of homogeneous
catalysis: asymmetric synthesis; metal-
catalyzed homogeneous oxidation; and
relations between molecular metal clus-
September 1978
ters and small metal crystallites.
Chapter One of the volume deals with
transition metal complexes as catalysts
for the addition of oxygen to reactive
organic substrates. It is a review de-
voted to presenting numerous recent
efforts to activate molecular oxygen by
coordination to metal centers in order
to catalytically transfer oxygen to a re-
active substrate. An impressive list of
524 references are cited, indicating the
intense interest in the field of the oxi-
dation of organic substances. The ma-
jority of the work reviewed is recent,
having first appeared in the past ten
years. The interested reader is di-
rected to other reviews of earlier work in
this area and to reviews of subjects re-
lated to these commercially important
and synthetically interesting compound-
producing catalytic oxidation reactions.
Chapter Two is concerned with com-
paring structure and electronic relations
between molecular clusters and small
particles and includes an attempt to
understand very dispersed metals as
used in catalysis. The comparison of
very small particles (VSP) and molecular
clusters (MC) includes an analysis of
size range and size-range characteriza-
tion, geometric aspects of the relation
between VSP and MC, electronic struc-
tures of VSP and MC, metal-metal bond
characteristics in VSP and MC, and sev-
eral electronic behavior aspects of the
two. The intent of the chapter is to il-
lustrate the similarities between very
small particles and molecular clusters.
This goal is accomplished with the em-
phasis placed on the structural and
electronic similarities.
Chapter Three reviews recent ad-
vances in catalytic asymmetric hydro-
silylation of olefins, carbonyl com-
pounds including keto esters, and ]mino
compounds using transition metal com-
plexes of chiral phosphine ligands. Par-
ticular emphasis is placed on the asym-
metric reduction of prochiral carbonyl
compounds which has received exten-
sive recent interest and has provided
an effective reduction method for or-
ganic syntheses.
The volume is a fine collection of re-
views of the three specialized aspects
of homogeneous catalysis considered. It
should find a wide range of interested
readers concerned with catalytic behav-
ior and reactions.
T. A. Roth
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas
"Trends in Electrochemistry," edited by
J. O'M. Bockris, D. A. J. Rand, and
B. J. Welch. Published by Plenum
Press, New York and London (1977).
408 4- xi pages; $35.00.
"Trends in Electrochemistry" is an
exciting collection of 22 plenary lectures
and invited papers from the Fourth Aus-
tralian Electrochemistry Conference,
which had the theme, "Electrochemistry
for a Future Society" and was held at
The Flinders University of South Aus-
tralia in February 1976. Ten of the
papers are by authors resident in Aus-
tralia, and the remainder by authors