Show new ch compounds Comp bunds for 1939 reach organic chemists of the world made approximately new chemical compounds in 1939 an I 1 increase n of about 6 per cent says a report by the american chemical society biochemistry closely allied to the organic field basis of major advances in modern industry registered an increase in activity of 5 per cent these gains were accomplished in the face of a general falling off of about one half of I 1 per cent in in the published results of chemical research owing to war conditions in europe it is explained by prof E J crane of ohio state university a as s editor of chemical abstract in which the findings of the socie tys international science reporting system assembled analysis of the statistics indicates americas growing leadership in chemical research the professor points P eints out in the chemical age in which we now live the re remarkable element carbon as manipol manipulated at by the hands of an increasing number of organic chemists is tending to dominate both industrial and theoretical chemical research professor crane declares we can be thankful that the dominance of prolific king carbon and his army of hundreds of thousands of compounds is principally beneficent the interesting tendency of the compounds of this single element t to D assume a commanding position in in chemical investigations has been particularly notable in the united states |