[Triple Point]

I was wondering if sources from way back - around 1900 to 1960 - are still valid and reliable?

For example:

- "The War Gases" by Mario Sartori (1930)

- "Organic Reactions - Volumes 1 through 4" by Roger Adams (1942)

- "Experiments in Organic Chemistry" by Louis Fieser (1941)

There are many others, but these are pretty cool - and free online - all you would have to do is read them online or print them yourself.

So, are these books still useful, factual, valid?

Or, are you able to buy these books already bound? - Because, some of these books on the internet are experiencing bit rot, and they are starting to get hard to read.

If these are not reliable sources, or you know of others that are better, what are other books that are like these but modernized? Some books that list multitudes of reactions and the synthesis of compounds in organic and inorganic chemistry?

Thanks in Advance.

[408]

Yes

The War Gasses is still used as a modern information source for that field.  All it lacks are the newer agents.

Any experiment book is usually still fine, but requires more chemical knowledge than more recent books as recent books include more safety info for procedures.  This was expected common knowledge at the time older experiment books were written.
I collect experiment manuals, the oldest being from the 1800s, the experiments all of which would work.  They did neglect to mention the toxicity of white phosphorus though 

The only thing that changes is mechanistic theory, and quantum stuff, where newer techniques and equipment make possible things that were not before.  But solid synthesis info pretty much never changes.

[Triple Point]

Cool, thanks.

Do you know if you can purchase these books from their original form? Some of the e-books look terrible from being scanned in - some text is hardly readable.