Laboratory first aid (Guy, K.)

Abstract

Although Volume 2 of this work is no doubt likely to be very useful to biologists, the reviewer believes that it will prove to have limited interest to most chemists. Volume 1, which was reviewed earlier in this Journal (42, A691 [September, 1965]), laid the foundation of surface and colloid chemistry on which the author proposes to explain a wide variety of cellular behavior described in Volume 2. The titles of chapters six through twelve are as follows: Factors Inducing Movement of

Salt effects on the reactivity of the base‐catalyzed hydrolysis of some novel low‐spin hydrophobic Fe(II)–amino acid azomethine chelates

“…The data depicted in Tables II and III show an abrupt increase of the rate constant upon adding salts with low concentrations. This behaviour is in accord with suggestions presented by Brønsted–Bjerrum and Livingston 15, and also to the suggested mechanism 14 that the slow step involves the formation of negatively charged complex conjugate base (the complex in which one hydroxide ion is added to the electrophilic azomethine carbon atom) and OH − ions as follows: …”