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acts as selective
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carboxyl
that
the
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only
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tive to allow for the
formation of such a
B. Belleau and
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in
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manuscript preparation.
rapid
the
be
data should
Correspondence concerning
pharmacological
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However,
linkage.
IV,
compounds
addressed to
this author.
similar
are
both sensitive to air
oxidation.
they may
activity,
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G. Lacasse
Martel,11
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N.
L.
This
suffer in
observation favors the
that
hypothesis
oxidation to
M.
Y. G. Perron
Ménard,
Weinberg,
activation
structure
Model
a
common
vivo
by
Bristol Laboratories
of Canada Limited
to
the
with
Canada
pseudo-base-like
receptors.
prior
interacting
compound
Candiac,
P.Q.,
II
suggest
studies with
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1967
21,
September
Book Reviews
III.
Molecules.
Molecular
and Molecular Structure.
Electronic
By
National Research
Section
1(c)
III
to
me
in its
of
seems
Spectra
misleading
to the
implication
rules for
Chapter
and Electronic
of
that
strict selection rules
Structure
Division of Pure
Polyatomic
Physics,
Canada. D. Van Nostrand
Spectra
analogous
widely applicable
molecules from atoms or
Wigner-Witmer
the formation of
Gerhard
diatomic molecules are
to
Herzberg,
poly-
Council of
atomic
It seems to me
collision, pre-
rigidly
of atoms.
Canada, Ottawa, Ontario,
120 Alexander
St., Princeton,
groups
xviii
745
a
N. J. 1966.
that such rules would be valid
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only if, during
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formed were
can
cm.
scribed orientations of the
of the molecule
X
pp.
being
parts
parts
whereas
the
maintained,
actually
approach
approaching
from the
is
“The book aimed at
of this
Quoting
the serious student
mathematical
preface
volume,
molecular structure. Without
and from all directions.
one another with all sorts of orientations
of
into
going
long
subject
experiment.
A.
K.
J. Chem.
The matter has been discussed in a
Schuler,
in
bibliography
paper by
a
deal of the
of the
developments, good
theory
624
not cited
(1953), by Herzberg.
the discussion and
to date than
up
the author has
Phys.,2\,
In
less
is
As
tended to
and
is laid on the
with
treated,
emphasis
preceding
feeling
number of
comparison
numerous
III are
On
pages
the
in the
Chapter
chapters.
too much credit
general
complete
in
in-
are
the two
volumes,
spectrograms
basis of the
subject,
and
other
a
for the
energy
to make the theoretical
experimental
diagrams
give
in
is
336 and
the reviewer
344,
given
while a
should
alizadle ....
level
and other illustrations
visu-
large
help
The reviewer
on
connection with the
method.
self-consistent-field
of
the review
hydrogen bonding
more
easily
in 1965.”
completed
developments
"421-
not
about
pages
very
happy
The
of the book was
densely
manuscript
used the term “molecu-
426. Also he wishes that the author had not
In
this volume is
filled with
information
and forms a
fact,
empirical
relevant theoretical
ideas,
H
3
lar
of 2 or
orbitals" for certain
orbitals
atoms)
how-
presented
orbitals
LCAO
III is
(e.g.,
group
building complete
a matter of taste.
with
correlated
climax to
beautifully
magnificent
in
molecular
The author
which can be used
orbitals;
has
well-known volumes on “Molecu-
Herzberg’s
this is
ever,
perhaps
the
lar
brings
tremely
It
ex-
and Molecular
of which this is the third.
Spectra
Structure,”
and
orbitals
group
of molecular
in which
building
symmetry
very clearly
can be used in the
way
to the
a
of the
comprehensive survey
experimentalist
in
orbitals
simple
varied and
of the
electronic-vibra-
often
details
needs to be
complicated
In
of the few critical
comments,
Chapter
matter
approximation.
spite
he
with if
which
tional-rotational-spin theory
acquainted
which
the re-
an
review of the
subject
perspective.
concentrated
useful
extremely helpful
he is to deal
tra of
with
states
the excited and electronic
intelligently
spec-
On
it
covers and
405-411,
in its
pages
gives
a
molecules. To the theorist it
polyatomic
present
brings panorama
viewer is
to see
proper
theory” placed
pleased
“ligand-field
of our
state of
of
electronic
knowledge
polyatomic spectra,
a
is
there
one,
On
Wigner
under molecular orbital
352,
page
theory.
from
perspective
delightful
an
on the
of the
of
through
85-page chapter
interpretation
spectra
of details
and
which no
and
wise
quotation
very
individual molecules and an
table
(Appendix VI)
88-page
in
should miss.
what is
particular no
chemist,
step beyond
on
is
these
there
of 1334 references.
a bibliography
spectra.
of its restriction to
more than 12
Finally,
of
second volume
in the
of
A
valuable
presented
In
of molecules with not
more wisdom and
spite
spectra
vapor-state
in
I and
is
in the first
the series the discussion
Ap-
Chapter
including
part
eigenfunctions
one could
atoms,
to be
hardly
single
includes recent
expect
book.
elec-
I
of
of the
classification
use of extended
other
pendix
tron
species
more
into a
knowledge
coverage
packed
theory
The
appendices
groups.
point
tables.
useful
spin, making
also contain several
and
re-
The
of the
developments
of the sub-
full
are
Valuable also
very
in
finements and will be valuable
the future
development
of situations which
types
of
and
and
Jahn-Teller
of the Renner-Teller
effects,
of interactions.
expositions
some new
its
even if
theoretically,
of
ject by
one can
briefly,
many
coverage,
various
types
by Hougen on
developments
but
few or no
of which
examples
anticipate
which
data
tables,
to new features
is made in the Introduction
Brief reference
have
been found. As in its two
a con-
volumes,
yet
predecessor
In
the
molecules.
obtained
Raman
data
subject
in the
levels of
nonrigid
occur
on
energy
siderable amount of
is included
the
beyond
discussion
title of
which
goes
how the same or
from electronic
even when not
or
spectra,
brought
states,
microwave,
to date as
ground
strict
related
utilized
confines of the
theory,
in
the
volume,
knowledge gained
by showing
been
have
but from
infrared,
spectra,
and how
can be
of chemical
from
spectra,
particular
on in-
volume
transitions
rotation
in the earlier
of forbidden
Magnetic
with similar
up
compared
the
in
field of
general
chemistry,
of the
is
The
very
frared and Raman
spectra.
reactions.
Although
of structured
but
rather
discussed
spec-
usefully.
briefly
is on the detailed under-
the
book
and the tables are
major emphasis
spectra
are discussed
effects
and Stark
Zeeman
tra are discussed
briefly.
devoted to
standing
empirical
mainly
of such
on these effects
have
done
been
has
yet
molecules,
little work
polyatomic
since
briefly,
very
of
only
obtained from the
analysis
spectra,
quantities
references
even
in
electronic
they
though
spectra
abundant
are
for molecules where continuous
given
only
spec-
and
the
microwave
subjects,
resonance
in
utilized
been
spectra
as
ground-state
extensively
tra
served.
some
a
of
4
of
ob-
have been
number
Chapter
cases
continuous
(in
spectra)
of the
exposition
well as
latter
These
molecular beam
fields of nuclear
spectroscopy.
with
is devoted to an
theory,
in
the
and
ground
paramagnetic
scope
indispensable
magnetic
Predissociation and Recombi-
examples,
“Dissociation,
book.
for
of the
book
the
outside
are considered
summary,
on the electronic
states,
In
nation: Continuous and Diffuse
it includes some instruc-
Spectra”;
is an
this
working
everyone
tive
on
for
surfaces
pages,
molecules.
diagrams
potential
polyatomic
and all chemists
of
molecules,
polyatomic
acquaintance.
spectra
its
make
150
is
devoted to
some
III,
Chapter
the correlation of
molecules and of
up
in-
has
in-
building
principles;
atoms
are
We
tremendously
at
should
least
electronic states with states of united
or
espe-
of a
the
he
of some
which
hard work
and
the
chemical
for the
enormously
debted to
devoted to so
patience
enhancing
Herzberg
electron
atoms;
separate
configurations,
accessibility
in
terms of molecular orbitals
the discussion
cially
(illustrated
by
science.
important areas of
creasingly
number of
use of the
molecules
as
molecules
molecular
the valence-bond
method;
examples);
Mulliken
R. S.
Chicago
University
of
orbital
ground
and
the structure of
method for
describing
states;
The
in
of
elec-
their
and excited
intensities
Physics,
Department of
60637
Illinois
a
tronic
short section on intermolecular forces.
Chicago,
transitions;
Journal
1968
of the
Society
American Chemical
90:3
31,
January
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