Bibliography of Chemical Reviews

B13. Bibliography of Chemical Reviews, Chemical Abstracts Service, (1958—1962). 

Three new publications are currently being evaluated for their usefulness in locating new published literature which has not yet appeared in the abstract journals and review articles abstracted in Chemical Abstracts Chemical Titles, Bibliography of Chemical Reviews, and Index Chemicus. The first two are new services provided by Chemical Abstracts and it is hoped that they will bridge the gap between the publication date of an article and the appearance of the corresponding annual index of Chemical Abstracts by means of which the abstract of the original article may be found in Chemical Abstracts. Index Chemicus is a compilation of new compounds disclosed in the current literature and the corresponding references. This new journal is published by the Institute of Scientific Information, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Bibliography of Chemical Reviews, later known as Bibliography of Reviews in Chemistry. Special bibliographies are occasionally published, such as the Bibliography of the Stable Isotopes of Oxygen and O s by D. Samuel and F. Steckel (Pergamon, 1959) which is complete to 1957 and has author and subject indexes. 

A brief review is Recent Developments in Inorganic and Organic Analytical Chemistry by T. S. West (RIC Lectures, 1959(1)). Others can be found in the Bibliography of Chemical Reviews, later entitled Bibliography of Reviews in Chemistry. A very useful German source is Fresenius Zeitschrift fur analytische Chemie... 

The material in this section is divided into three parts. The first subsection deals with the general characteristics of chemical substances. The second subsection is concerned with the chemistry of petroleum it contains a brief review of the nature, composition, and chemical constituents of crude oil and natural gases. The final subsection touches upon selected topics in physical chemistry, including ideal gas behavior, the phase rule and its applications, physical properties of pure substances, ideal solution behavior in binary and multicomponent systems, standard heats of reaction, and combustion of fuels. Examples are provided to illustrate fundamental ideas and principles. Nevertheless, the reader is urged to refer to the recommended bibliography [47-52] or other standard textbooks to obtain a clearer understanding of the subject material. Topics not covered here owing to limitations of space may be readily found in appropriate technical literature. 

Because the electrochemistry of pyridines has not been reviewed before with regard to industrially significant processes, this review will therefore cover the period 1801-1983. Citations from 1801-1975 have been compiled in Swann s bibliography.1 These citation listings were broken down into six indices author, patent, product molecular formula, synonym, product name, and product type. A computer-aided search of Chemical Abstracts and the World Patent Index covered the period 1967-1983. Other sources such as the reviews on heterocyclic electrochemistry by Lund2 and Nelson3 contained useful citations. Nelson s review has a valuable table that summarizes the synthetic work by indexing the parent heterocycle. 

Chemical literature of the review type consists of collections of articles or chapters on specific topics written by presumed experts. The introduction to these reviews usually specifies the period of time covered. Ideally the reviews include critical evaluations of the work and progress in a specific area of research together with a rather complete bibliography of the important original research articles pertinent to that area. However, it should not be assumed that every reference to a particular subject is given or that aU of the author s critical interpretations are necessarily correct. A selection of the review hterature that is of special value in physical chemistry is hsted below. 

Thomas, A. (1985). Effects of chemical warfare a selective review and bibliography of British state papers. In SIPRI Chemical Biological Warfare Studies No. I, pp. 1, 20, 22. Taylor Francis, Philadelphia, PA. 

Patents. C. A. indexes U. S. document indexes analysis of an actual patent. Miscellaneous searches. Dictionary card catalog bibliography on given topic chemical biography review of chemical technology. 

Any doubts concerning the significance of patents as sources of chemical information will be dispelled on perusal of recent annual reports on Chemical Abstracts, which during 1949 listed 11,390 patents, distributed among 29 of the 32 sections (3). The bibliography section of recent books and review articles in various chemical fields generally carries a goodly proportion of patent numbers. 

Items under this category are too numerous to attempt an extensive listing herein, especially in view of the existence of excellent bibliographies such as the one by von Hohenhoff (18) and the List of Periodicals Abstracted by Chemical Abstracts [50, 1J-314J (Nov. 25-Dec. 10, 1956)1 and annual Supplements [51, 1T-27J (Nov. 10-25, 1957), 53. 1J-32J (Dec. 10, 1959)], 52, 1J-40J (Dec. 10, 1958). Valuable review articles have appeared in Chemical Reviews and the volumes of Annual Survey of American Chemistry. Outstanding reviews, in some cases an annual feature in the January issue, have been published in the following journals. (Those marked with an asterisk regularly feature a patent abstract or patent list section.)... 

Many chemical patent references are to be found in books, which in turn are usually readily located through bibliographies, publishers catalogs, or abstracts of book reviews. Many of the American Chemical Society monographs contain abundant patent references. The following list is illustrative of the variety that is available both as to breadth of field and the scope within the field. 

In reviewing the literature for the present paper, about 600 references were considered. These were located by checking Chemical Abstrax ts Indexes, bibliographies prepared for the use of our research men, clipping files maintained by our library staff, and perusal of the tables of contents of recent issues of chemical engineering and oil journals. It is also helpful to check the author indexes for the names of the principal contributors to a given field and to look into the publications of private companies which are available in some libraries. 

This chapter covers only some of the ways in which activated carbon can offer utility in this field. Other possibilities are suggested in References. For a complete review the reader is referred to Chemical Abstracts where all items dealing with the subject can be readily located in the index under Carbon, active and Charcoal, active and also to Deitz, Bibliography of Solid Adsorbents, which contains a section on biochemical, medical, and pharmaceutical applications. 

Comprehensive review and bibliography The Chemistry of Acrylonitrile (Am. Cyaoamid, New York, 2nd ed., 1959) 272 pp L. T. Oroet in Kirk-Ottimer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology vol. I (Wiley-Interscience, New York, 3rd ed, 1978) pp 414-426. 

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