Reviews—Continuing Series

Several review publications are concerned with organometallic compounds in general (C1-C3) or with specific Main Group elements (C4, C5 see also A27, A44, A74, A121). 

Organometallic Chemistry Reviews, Elsevier, Amsterdam, vols. 1, 2 (1966-1967) Series A, Subject reviews, vols. 3-8 (1968-1972). Beginning in 1973 subject reviews were incorporated into the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 

Becker and M. Tsutsui, eds., Organometallic Reactions, Wiley, New York, vols. 

International Quarterly Scientific Reviews Journal, Reviews on Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb compounds, Freund, Tel Aviv, Israel, vol. 1 (1972). 

Articles of direct relevance to organometallic chemistry of the Main Group elements are also published in various series devoted to inorganic (C6, C7) or organic chemistry or polymer chemistry (C19, C20). 

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Gold forms a continuous series of solid solutions with palladium, and there is no evidence for the existence of a miscibility gap. Also, the catalytic properties of the component metals are very different, and for these reasons the Pd-Au alloys have been popular in studies of the electronic factor in catalysis. The well-known paper by Couper and Eley (127) remains the most clearly defined example of a correlation between catalytic activity and the filling of d-band vacancies. The apparent activation energy for the ortho-parahydrogen conversion over Pd-Au wires wras constant on Pd and the Pd-rich alloys, but increased abruptly at 60% Au, at which composition d-band vacancies were considered to be just filled. Subsequently, Eley, with various collaborators, has studied a number of other reactions over the same alloy wires, e.g., formic acid decomposition 128), CO oxidation 129), and N20 decomposition ISO). These results, and the extent to which they support the d-band theory, have been reviewed by Eley (1). We shall confine our attention here to the chemisorption of oxygen and the decomposition of formic acid, winch have been studied on Pd-Au alloy films. 

To oversee this surveillance, the European Union has developed a system based on four fundamental cornerstones and controlled by four Community Reference Laboratories (Decision 91/664/EEC) hierarchically linked to a series of 36 authorized National Laboratories (Decision 93/257/EEC). The four cornerstones are a program of reference materials (53), a set of regularly updated mandatory minimum quality criteria for analytical techniques (54-57), a series of Reference Manuals (58, 59), and a continuous series of laboratory workshops plus a future Peer Review Group (60). 

There is also a continuing series of reviews concerning itself with the mechanistic aspects of the reactivity of co-ordinated ligands in Mechanisms of Inorganic and Organometallic Reactions, Plenum. 

A continuous series of very excellent reviews on marine natural products by D. J. Faulkner has appeared in Natural Products Reports (2-6), covering all aspects of the literature on marine natural products, organized phylogenetically. Excellent reviews on Marine Alkaloids and Related Compounds (7) and Recent Developments in the Field of Marine Natural Products with Emphasis on Biologically Active Compounds (5) were written by W. Fenical and H. C. Krebs, respectively. Besides these reviews, numerous books dealing with general or specialized topics in marine natural products research have appeared in recent years (9-13). Biosynthetic studies on marine natural products were recently reviewed by M. J. Garson (14). 

Histories of the development of computational chemistry in various countries can be found in the continuing series Reviews in Computational Chemistry [6]. 

REVIEW This series continues to play a valuable role in keeping the specialist and nonspecialist informed of this important field of chemistry. ... 

Progress in the Science and Technology of the Rare Earths, Vol. 1,1964. (A continuing series with reviews on extraction, solution chemistry, magnetic properties, analysis, halides, oxides, and so on.)... 

This review continues four earlier biennial reviews published in this series " in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006. In turn, these reviews built on my report, written almost three decades ago, for a previous Specialist Periodical Reports series (Theoretical Chemistry) and published in 1981. This earlier review was one of the first to survey the application of many-body methods, and, in particular, many-body perturbation theory to the molecular structure problem. 

The eighth volume of the continuing series is of great help to all of us whose interests lie in peptide and protein chemistry. Overall, this volume maintains the very high standards we have been accustomed to in this series of Specialist Reports."— Brian J. Johnson, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences reviewing V . 8. 485 pp (still available Vols. 1—12). ... 

This volume, part of a continuing series, is a compilation of the most highly rated science books that have been reviewed recently in the periodical Science Books Films. 

Topics in Phosphorus Chemistry, Vol. 1, 1964, M. Grayson and E. J. Griffiths, eds., Wiley (a continuing series of detailed reviews). 

Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, Vol. 1, Specialist Periodical Report, The Chemical Society, London, 1971 (this is the first of a continuing series of literature reviews on the title topic). 

A number of fairly complete reviews of free radical addition reaction kinetics are available, and this chapter has used these sources freely. In particular, the review by Kerr and Parsonage [1] has been invaluable. An earlier review by Cvetanovic [2] was also helpful. The publication, in cooperation with the National Bureau of Standards, of a continuing series of summaries [3—7] of kinetic information has been useful, and these fill the gaps in the data given by Kerr and Parsonage [1]. 

The need for a Cumulative Index to systems reviewed in the continuing series Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds has long been evident. At hrst sight the preparation of such an index would seem to be a simple compilation task. In fact, the task is anything but simple, mainly because of the use of now outdated or alternative nomenclature in an appreciable number of volumes within the series. All systems so named must clearly be renamed prior to indexation. This translation process is not only very time consuming but also requires considerable familiarity with several diverse ways of naming heterocyclic ring systems. 

The literature available from the end of the last report (June 1988) to December 1989 is covered in this chapter. The general chemistry of chromium is reviewed in two continuing series and other reviews on the use of [(TPP)Cr(V)(0)(X)] and amine chloro or fluoro chromates as oxidizing agents have appeared. 

For the study of diffusion phenomena in solids it is also possible to work with potential pulses (potentiostatic pulses) or with constant current pulses (galvanostatic pulses). Examples described in the following paragraphs are based on the coulometric titration method described in Chapter 3. Weppner and Huggins reviewed these methods.In a continuous series of pulses the concentration of lithium in a sheet of aluminum is increased. The diffusion in each pulse is followed by either potential or current measurements. 

The clinical picture of six adverse reactions associated with the infusion of Lipi-physan prepared from cottonseed oil and soybean lecithin has been extensively described by Nicolas et al. (1966). In two cases the reaction was observed in connection with the first and in one case after the third infusion. These patients had not received Lipiphysan earlier. Two of the patients had tolerated Lipiphysan earher, but renewed infusion 10-15 days later provoked adverse reactions. In the sixth case a continuous series of 17 infusions was well tolerated but the unit 18 provoked a reaction. In this series of patients the symptoms corresponded to those described above chills, flush, headache, episodes of hypo- and hypertension, tachycardia, vomiting, and body temperatures as high as 39.5 °C. All patients recovered from the intolerance reactions. Goulon et al. (1974) have reviewed the clinical data on nine cases of severe late reactions. Eight of these were caused by preparations stabilized with soybean lecithin and one with egg yolk lecithin. 

Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry began to publish a series of critically evaluated stability constants (37). A great number of families of metal complexes were treated in this continuing series. (To date 12 reviews were published in either separate volumes or in Pure and Applied Chemistry.) Critically selected stability constants are offered in the volumes prepared by Martell and Smith (38). 

Over the last twenty-five years ABA has displayed a continuing series of unexpected, quirkish properties. As a quick review one can mention ... 

This review continues directly from that in Volume 1 of this Series (Chapter 19) and a similar layout has been adopted. The major difference in this respect is that in Volume 1 a fairly detailed coverage of the literature relating to well established, as well as novel applications, was provided in order to form a basis for subsequent reviews. In this Chapter, no attempt has been made to catalogue in detail clinical work with established materials in what are now routine applications. The general philosophy is to review more fully those areas in which there is either a degree of novelty, or a marked increase in interest, as reflected in the volume of published literature. 

A review has described the viscoelastic properties of mucous secretions. Their structural variability may indicate the presence of distinct glycoprotein populations rather than a continuous series of related structures. ... 

Two variants of the Sc-Ti phase diagram have been reported by Savitskii and Burkhanov (1961) and Beaudry and Daane (1962). Gschneidner (1975) and Murray (1987) analysed them and showed that the Beaudry and Daane one is probably more correct. In these reviews one can find the figure of the phase diagram and the list of references concerning the properties of the Sc-Ti alloys. There are no binary compounds in the system. The bcc HT phases of these components form a continuous series of solid solutions. The hep LT phases of Sc and Ti dissolve up to 6.9 and 12.8 at.% of the other component, respectively. 

The reviewers, however, suggest an alternate model for the phase equilibria in this region of the lanthanum-lutetium system. At high temperature we propose that the dhcp La and hep Lu phases form a continuous series of soHd solutions, which upon cooling form a sohd miscibility gap of the two terminal solid solutions. This construction would be essentially identical to the phase relationships observed in the Nd-Sc system by Beaudry et al. (1965) (see section 2.37 and fig. 65) and similar to that observed in the La-Gd system in that the dhcp La phase forms a continuous series of solid solutions with the hep Gd phase at high temperatures (see section 2.4 and fig. 5). Clearly a careful experimental study needs to be made of the 20 to 50 at% La region of the lanthanum-lutetium system, especially at high temperatures. 

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