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of fluorophores it is not of direct interest to analytical scientists. P.J. Worsfold
J.P. Riley and R. Chester, Chemtcal Oceanography Vol. IO, SEAREX: The Sea/Air Exchange Program, Academic Press, London, 1989 (ISBN 0-12588610-1). Price g 48.00. The SEAREX programme was set up with NSF funding to identify the sources of material found in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, to investigate the meteorological processes controlling the transport of material from the land to the oceans and to investigate the exchange of these substances across the sea-air interface. Over a 7-year period from 1979 a range of quantitative measurements was made of natural and pollutant organic species in both the sea and atmosphere. Ten U.S. institutions were involved in the study and this book reviews the results of the programme. The book is a multi-author volume of twelve chapters covering a variety of aspects of the programme. The range of subJect areas covered is wide, ranging from the meteorology in the Pacific region and its effects of long-term transport, to a cryogenic technique for the sampling of the surface microlayer for trace gases. A diverse variety of species were employed as tracers in the study of processes governing and resulting from the fluxes of material. These included the trace metals (including ‘l”Pb and Hg), nutrients, particulate organic carbon and a range of natural and synthetic organic compounds. Overall the book is authoritatively written, informative and a valuable record of the results of the SEAREX programme. Alan G. Howard
M. Okaware, T. Kitao, T. Hirashima and M. Matsuoka, Orgamc Colorants. A Handbook of Data of Selected Dyes for Electra-optlcal Appbcations (Physical Sciences Data, 35), Elsevier, Amsterdam and Kodansha, Tokyo, 1988 (ISBN 0-444-98884X). xv + 487 pp. Price US$ 236.75/Dfl. 450.00.
This is one of the few data books for chemists who are concerned with the molecular design or functional application of dyes. This volume summarizes the absorption maxima, physical properties, end uses and literature for ca. 2700 dyes distinguished by their chromophores, all comprehensively indexed by name, absorption maximum and formula. The main interest m the book will be to those concerned with electro-optical applications, but reagent chemists should fmd the modern data on many well known reagent dyes useful and may well find compounds to develop as future reagents. D. Thorbum Burns
D.O. Hummel and F. Scholl, Atlas of Polymer and Plastics Analysis, Volume 2, Part b, VCH, Weinheim, 1988 (ISBN 3-527-26091-9). xxviii + 577 pp. Price DM 580.00. This volume completes the second edition of the well known reference collection on polymer and plastics analysis. Volume 2 covers starting and auxiliary materials and degradation products of plastics, fibres, rubbers and resins; Part b deals with analytical methods and classification of the above materials, and consists of two hardcover books; Part b/I containing the text and Part b/II containing a bibliography and index. Most of the text is devoted to a description of various physical methods for the analysis of macromolecular systems, with particular emphasis on vibrational spectroscopy (infrared and Raman) but including coverage of UV-visible, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron spur resonance and photoelectron spectroscopy. This is followed by tables of characteristic vibrational absorption bands for a variety of organic compounds and for various polymer classes. The bibliography contains an extensive list of references (up to and including 1987) classified according to a decimal coding with sub-headings. For a maJor reference collection the design of the bibliography is very disappointing; the coding used does not correlate well with the coding used in the text, references cited in the text are not always
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included in the bibliography and the typeface makes it difficult to pick out individual references. The other volumes in the atlas cover structures and spectra of polymers, and additives and processing aids. The complete collection is an extensive and essential reference source for polymer scientists in spite of the limitatrons of the bibliography. P.J. Worsfold
Bernhard Schrader, Raman / Infrared Atlas of Orgamc Compounds, 2nd Edn., VCH, Wemheim, 1989 (ISBN 3-527-26969-X). xiv + 1118 pp. Price DM 680.00. This bound, second edition replaces the looseleaf collection of spectra issued from 1974 to 1977. It reproduces very clearly the infrared and Raman spectra for 1044 organic compounds, with one pair of spectra on each page. The Raman spectra are generally obtained by argon-ion laser excitation. The compounds studied are selected from all important groups of organic compounds. They are extensively indexed, and CAS Registry Numbers are Included.
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and Process Control. GBF Monographs, Vol. 13, VCH, Weinheim, 1989 (ISBN 3-527-28032-4). xvii + 428 pp. Price DM 128.00/Z 45.95. This is a collection of papers presented at a meeting held in Braunschweig, May 22-23, 1989. It is divided into sections dedicated to enzyme electrodes (19 papers), field effect transistors (12), optrodes (ll), flow-injection systems (sensors?) (9), membranes (4) and other subjects such as piezoelectric detectors, enzyme diffusion badges and microorganisms (12). The papers are reproduced from camera-ready copy and the quality of reproduction is fairly good. Although some of the papers are short reviews, most are research papers and would better have been published in research journals. The collection does, however, show how considerable is the activity in this very interesting analytical area.
R. Macrae (Ed.), HPLC m Food Analysts, 2nd Ed., Academc Press, London, 1988 (ISBN 0-12464781-2). xiv + 502 pp. Price 5 37.00.
This is the second edition of a very useful book. It provides ‘H and i3C NMR, IR, MS and UVvisible spectral data, and the effect of structure thereon, for a wide variety of organic compounds and compound types, in order to aid the identification of such compounds and elucidate their structures. The information is very clearly presented, and the price of the compilation is sufficiently low to make it available to all practising chemists.
The changes that have taken place in liquid chromatography (LC) and us applications to food analysis since the first edition of this book in 1982 are clearly reflected in this new edition. The basics of the technique are better known and more clearly understood, so the description of the theory and practice of LC are condensed into one chapter (61 pp.) written by Dr. Macrae. The applications to foodstuffs have been greatly extended, so that there are now chapters on carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, food additives, synthetic colours, natural pigments, mycotoxins, PAHs and nitrosamines, pesticide residues and amino acids, each written by different authors. There is also a chapter on LC-MS, with a brief indication of application to food components. This is a useful, well prepared text, describing an increasingly important area of analytical chemistry, which ~111 be mvaluable to practitioners.
R.D. Schmid and F. Scheller (Eds.), Bzosensors: Apphcatlons m MedIcme, Envrronmental ProtectIon
International Monographs
E. Pretsch, J.T. Clerc, J. Seibl and W. Simon, Tables of Spectral Data for Structure Determrnatlon of Organic Compounds, 2nd English Edn., Springer, Berlin, 1989 (ISBN 3-540-51202-o). xiii + 415 pp. Pnce DM 78.00 (softcover).
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of fluorophores it is not of direct interest to analytical scientists. P.J. Worsfold
J.P. Riley and R. Chester, Chemtcal Oceanography Vol. IO, SEAREX: The Sea/Air Exchange Program, Academic Press, London, 1989 (ISBN 0-12588610-1). Price g 48.00. The SEAREX programme was set up with NSF funding to identify the sources of material found in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, to investigate the meteorological processes controlling the transport of material from the land to the oceans and to investigate the exchange of these substances across the sea-air interface. Over a 7-year period from 1979 a range of quantitative measurements was made of natural and pollutant organic species in both the sea and atmosphere. Ten U.S. institutions were involved in the study and this book reviews the results of the programme. The book is a multi-author volume of twelve chapters covering a variety of aspects of the programme. The range of subJect areas covered is wide, ranging from the meteorology in the Pacific region and its effects of long-term transport, to a cryogenic technique for the sampling of the surface microlayer for trace gases. A diverse variety of species were employed as tracers in the study of processes governing and resulting from the fluxes of material. These included the trace metals (including ‘l”Pb and Hg), nutrients, particulate organic carbon and a range of natural and synthetic organic compounds. Overall the book is authoritatively written, informative and a valuable record of the results of the SEAREX programme. Alan G. Howard
M. Okaware, T. Kitao, T. Hirashima and M. Matsuoka, Orgamc Colorants. A Handbook of Data of Selected Dyes for Electra-optlcal Appbcations (Physical Sciences Data, 35), Elsevier, Amsterdam and Kodansha, Tokyo, 1988 (ISBN 0-444-98884X). xv + 487 pp. Price US$ 236.75/Dfl. 450.00.
This is one of the few data books for chemists who are concerned with the molecular design or functional application of dyes. This volume summarizes the absorption maxima, physical properties, end uses and literature for ca. 2700 dyes distinguished by their chromophores, all comprehensively indexed by name, absorption maximum and formula. The main interest m the book will be to those concerned with electro-optical applications, but reagent chemists should fmd the modern data on many well known reagent dyes useful and may well find compounds to develop as future reagents. D. Thorbum Burns
D.O. Hummel and F. Scholl, Atlas of Polymer and Plastics Analysis, Volume 2, Part b, VCH, Weinheim, 1988 (ISBN 3-527-26091-9). xxviii + 577 pp. Price DM 580.00. This volume completes the second edition of the well known reference collection on polymer and plastics analysis. Volume 2 covers starting and auxiliary materials and degradation products of plastics, fibres, rubbers and resins; Part b deals with analytical methods and classification of the above materials, and consists of two hardcover books; Part b/I containing the text and Part b/II containing a bibliography and index. Most of the text is devoted to a description of various physical methods for the analysis of macromolecular systems, with particular emphasis on vibrational spectroscopy (infrared and Raman) but including coverage of UV-visible, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron spur resonance and photoelectron spectroscopy. This is followed by tables of characteristic vibrational absorption bands for a variety of organic compounds and for various polymer classes. The bibliography contains an extensive list of references (up to and including 1987) classified according to a decimal coding with sub-headings. For a maJor reference collection the design of the bibliography is very disappointing; the coding used does not correlate well with the coding used in the text, references cited in the text are not always
338
ANALYTICA
included in the bibliography and the typeface makes it difficult to pick out individual references. The other volumes in the atlas cover structures and spectra of polymers, and additives and processing aids. The complete collection is an extensive and essential reference source for polymer scientists in spite of the limitatrons of the bibliography. P.J. Worsfold
Bernhard Schrader, Raman / Infrared Atlas of Orgamc Compounds, 2nd Edn., VCH, Wemheim, 1989 (ISBN 3-527-26969-X). xiv + 1118 pp. Price DM 680.00. This bound, second edition replaces the looseleaf collection of spectra issued from 1974 to 1977. It reproduces very clearly the infrared and Raman spectra for 1044 organic compounds, with one pair of spectra on each page. The Raman spectra are generally obtained by argon-ion laser excitation. The compounds studied are selected from all important groups of organic compounds. They are extensively indexed, and CAS Registry Numbers are Included.
CHIMICA
ACTA
and Process Control. GBF Monographs, Vol. 13, VCH, Weinheim, 1989 (ISBN 3-527-28032-4). xvii + 428 pp. Price DM 128.00/Z 45.95. This is a collection of papers presented at a meeting held in Braunschweig, May 22-23, 1989. It is divided into sections dedicated to enzyme electrodes (19 papers), field effect transistors (12), optrodes (ll), flow-injection systems (sensors?) (9), membranes (4) and other subjects such as piezoelectric detectors, enzyme diffusion badges and microorganisms (12). The papers are reproduced from camera-ready copy and the quality of reproduction is fairly good. Although some of the papers are short reviews, most are research papers and would better have been published in research journals. The collection does, however, show how considerable is the activity in this very interesting analytical area.
R. Macrae (Ed.), HPLC m Food Analysts, 2nd Ed., Academc Press, London, 1988 (ISBN 0-12464781-2). xiv + 502 pp. Price 5 37.00.
This is the second edition of a very useful book. It provides ‘H and i3C NMR, IR, MS and UVvisible spectral data, and the effect of structure thereon, for a wide variety of organic compounds and compound types, in order to aid the identification of such compounds and elucidate their structures. The information is very clearly presented, and the price of the compilation is sufficiently low to make it available to all practising chemists.
The changes that have taken place in liquid chromatography (LC) and us applications to food analysis since the first edition of this book in 1982 are clearly reflected in this new edition. The basics of the technique are better known and more clearly understood, so the description of the theory and practice of LC are condensed into one chapter (61 pp.) written by Dr. Macrae. The applications to foodstuffs have been greatly extended, so that there are now chapters on carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, food additives, synthetic colours, natural pigments, mycotoxins, PAHs and nitrosamines, pesticide residues and amino acids, each written by different authors. There is also a chapter on LC-MS, with a brief indication of application to food components. This is a useful, well prepared text, describing an increasingly important area of analytical chemistry, which ~111 be mvaluable to practitioners.
R.D. Schmid and F. Scheller (Eds.), Bzosensors: Apphcatlons m MedIcme, Envrronmental ProtectIon
International Monographs
E. Pretsch, J.T. Clerc, J. Seibl and W. Simon, Tables of Spectral Data for Structure Determrnatlon of Organic Compounds, 2nd English Edn., Springer, Berlin, 1989 (ISBN 3-540-51202-o). xiii + 415 pp. Pnce DM 78.00 (softcover).
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