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and data evaluation. There is also a useful chapter on chemical speciation. The second part of the book deals with the elements in alphabetical order; Al, As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Mn, Hg, Ni, Se, Tl, V and Zn. There is a subject index, and each chapter has an extensive bibliography. All the chapters are written by celebrated practitioners. The overall text thus provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of reliable trace element analysis in (of?) biological specimens, and should be available to all workers in the field. The only minor complaint is that Chapter 8 is consistently referred to as Chapter 7 in the rmming head. Alan Townshend Fabrixio Bruner, Gas Chromatographic EnvironmentaZAnaZysis,VCH, New York, 1993 (ISBN l-56081011-4). xii + 233 pp. Price DM 98.OO/f40.00. The growing interest in environmental analysis has seen a significant increase in the number of generalist and specialist textbooks on the subject. This monograph is aimed particularly at graduate students who wish to study environmental analysis and chemists and technicians who need to be aware of the scientific basis for official analytical methods. The preface states the authors opinion that gas chromatography is still the most widely used technique for environmental analysis and the best way to introduce analysts to the particular way of thinking required to solve environmental analytical problems. The contents are therefore primarily devoted to gas chromatographic instrumentation (including GCMS) but there are “flashes” of liquid chromatographic (LC) instrumentation and applications. The first half of the book is devoted to an overview of basic chromatographic theory and gas chromatography and mass spectrometry instrumentation. It is clearly presented, with good diagrams, but much of this information is available in general analytical textbooks. One is left with the impression that the author would have liked to include more on LC but was constrained by the title. From a practitioner’s point of view the second half of the book contains more directly relevant information, with chapters on the analysis of volatile air and water pollutants and simple preparation and
analysis of organic micropollutants from complex matrices. The latter is such an important aspect of the overall procedure that it could have been expanded to include topics such as supercritical fluid extraction, coupling of LC and GC and the handling of photosensitive compounds. Nonetheless issues such as contamination from solvents, solid and liquid phase extraction from complex environmental matrices, preconcentration and procedures for selected classes of compounds, e.g., chlorofluorocarbons, are covered in some detail. This book contains some useful coverage of environmental analysis by gas chromatography and is well written, but the overall impression is that it falls between the details expected from the title and the desire to appeal to a more general graduate student readership. Paul J. Worsfold Jaroslava TurkovA, BioajjZnity Chromatography, Second, completely revised edition, Journal of Chromatography Library, Vol. 55, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993 (ISBN 0-444-89030-O). xvii + 800 pp. Price Dfl. 495.OO/US$282.75. After the publication of the first edition of the book Ajjlnity Chromatography in 1978 the interest in separation methods such as affinity chromatography suitable for the isolation of specific bioactive compounds from very complicated biorganic matrices has increased enormously. In the last fifteen years many new techniques have appeared and the refinement of the existing methods has been continuous. Bioajjinity Chromatography is a worthy successor to its forerunner, Ajjinity Chromatography, which has been regarded by both beginner and experienced chromatographers as a highly comprehensive work. The present book is entirely devoted to techniques used in this special field consisting of 15 chapters that cover both theory and practice. Most of the techniques and theoretical aspects are well enumerated and are compiled with adequate references at the end of each chapter. Many examples are given of how affinity chromatography can be used in health sciences and in biotechnological industry. In view of the fact that many modem laboratories use highly automated chromatographs some more reference to
Book Reviews/Analytics ChimicaActi 296 (1994) 219-222
the instrumentation, automated sample handling and data evaluation could have been included. In conclusion, this book is very useful with information that will be valuable to any scientist initiating work in the area of affinity chromatography and as a reference book for more experienced research workers. Tibor Cserh&i Trenak in Analytical Chemistry (TrAC), Reference Edition, Vol. 12, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993 (ISBN O-444-81805-7). viii + 601 pp. Price Dfl. 675.OO/US$387.75. As always, the Reference Edition of TrAC is bursting with up to date accounts of recent advances in analytical science, including the “computer corner” articles, as published in the monthly edition of TrAC. Articles on capillary electrophoresis and chiml analysis are accompanied by determination of rare earths in rocks, and of mycotoxins in foods, and single cell analysis by glow discharge mass spectrometry. This year, the volume is made considerably larger by the inclusion of the “Directory of Capillary Electrophoresis” (CE), which comprises full details of > 200 scientists who have published in this field (77 pp.>, a geographical index of these authors, au index of 18 companies manufacturing CE equipment, and an index of authors listed by techniques and areas of applications. D. Stevenson and I.D. Wilson (Eds.), SampZePreparation for Biomedical and Environmental Analysis, Plenum, New York, 1994 (ISBN O-306-44663-4). x + 246 pp. Price US$75.00. Sample preparation is one of the key areas of the analytical process; improper or inappropriate sample preparation will make subsequent analytical measurements difficult or invalid. Yet it is a subject that does not receive its due attention from researchers and funding bodies. It is particularly gratifying, therefore, that a symposium was dedicated to this subject in 1991, and that papers presented at the symposium have been made available to a wider audience in this book, albeit three years later. There are 24 papers covering several topics, especially
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solid phase extraction, on-line and automated sample treatment and supercritical fluid extraction. Many well-known authors are included (e.g., Brinkman, R.M. Smith, I.D. Wilson, Novotny). The presentation of all articles is in a uniform style and format. There is a subject index, a compound index, and a list of authors. David H. Russel (Ed.), Experimental Mass S’ctrometry, Plenum, New York, 1994 (ISBN 0-30644457-7). xiii + 311 pp. Price US$79.50. This is the first of a series of volumes intended to describe the extensive developments in mass spectrometry (MS) that have taken place in the 1980s and 1990s. The present volume is “a guide for the non specialist”, comprising 8 chapters, written by 21 authors, all but one (Gailmann, who has written on multiple pulses and dimensions in FT Ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) MS) from the USA. The subjects covered include the fragmentation of (M - H)- ions, alkali adducts, colission-induced dissociations, experimental FTICRMS, protein structure elucidation by time-of-flight MS, liquid chromatography/FAB and electrospray ionisation MS, and tandem MS of large biomolecules. Volume 2 will be devoted entirely to matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation of biomolecules. S. Gijriig (Ed.), Advances in Steroid Analysis ‘93, Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on the Analysis of Steroids, Akademia Kiad6, Budapest (ISBN 963-056721-0). xiii + 623 pp. Price US$BS.OO. As with the previous triennial symposia in the series, the last being at P&X in 1990, this volume presents, in camera ready format, 65 of the papers presented at the Szombathely Conference, May 3-5, 1993. They are classified under receptor binding studies (9 papers), immunoassays (131, chromatography (lo), spectroscopy (31, biosynthesis and metabolism (B), clinical studies (13), environment steroids and cancer (7) and miscellaneous (2). There is a subject index. George Socrates, Infrared Characteristic Group Frequencies. Tables and Charts, 2nd edn., Wiley,
Book Reviews/Ana&ica
Chimica Acta 296 (1994) 219-222
and data evaluation. There is also a useful chapter on chemical speciation. The second part of the book deals with the elements in alphabetical order; Al, As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Mn, Hg, Ni, Se, Tl, V and Zn. There is a subject index, and each chapter has an extensive bibliography. All the chapters are written by celebrated practitioners. The overall text thus provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of reliable trace element analysis in (of?) biological specimens, and should be available to all workers in the field. The only minor complaint is that Chapter 8 is consistently referred to as Chapter 7 in the rmming head. Alan Townshend Fabrixio Bruner, Gas Chromatographic EnvironmentaZAnaZysis,VCH, New York, 1993 (ISBN l-56081011-4). xii + 233 pp. Price DM 98.OO/f40.00. The growing interest in environmental analysis has seen a significant increase in the number of generalist and specialist textbooks on the subject. This monograph is aimed particularly at graduate students who wish to study environmental analysis and chemists and technicians who need to be aware of the scientific basis for official analytical methods. The preface states the authors opinion that gas chromatography is still the most widely used technique for environmental analysis and the best way to introduce analysts to the particular way of thinking required to solve environmental analytical problems. The contents are therefore primarily devoted to gas chromatographic instrumentation (including GCMS) but there are “flashes” of liquid chromatographic (LC) instrumentation and applications. The first half of the book is devoted to an overview of basic chromatographic theory and gas chromatography and mass spectrometry instrumentation. It is clearly presented, with good diagrams, but much of this information is available in general analytical textbooks. One is left with the impression that the author would have liked to include more on LC but was constrained by the title. From a practitioner’s point of view the second half of the book contains more directly relevant information, with chapters on the analysis of volatile air and water pollutants and simple preparation and
analysis of organic micropollutants from complex matrices. The latter is such an important aspect of the overall procedure that it could have been expanded to include topics such as supercritical fluid extraction, coupling of LC and GC and the handling of photosensitive compounds. Nonetheless issues such as contamination from solvents, solid and liquid phase extraction from complex environmental matrices, preconcentration and procedures for selected classes of compounds, e.g., chlorofluorocarbons, are covered in some detail. This book contains some useful coverage of environmental analysis by gas chromatography and is well written, but the overall impression is that it falls between the details expected from the title and the desire to appeal to a more general graduate student readership. Paul J. Worsfold Jaroslava TurkovA, BioajjZnity Chromatography, Second, completely revised edition, Journal of Chromatography Library, Vol. 55, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993 (ISBN 0-444-89030-O). xvii + 800 pp. Price Dfl. 495.OO/US$282.75. After the publication of the first edition of the book Ajjlnity Chromatography in 1978 the interest in separation methods such as affinity chromatography suitable for the isolation of specific bioactive compounds from very complicated biorganic matrices has increased enormously. In the last fifteen years many new techniques have appeared and the refinement of the existing methods has been continuous. Bioajjinity Chromatography is a worthy successor to its forerunner, Ajjinity Chromatography, which has been regarded by both beginner and experienced chromatographers as a highly comprehensive work. The present book is entirely devoted to techniques used in this special field consisting of 15 chapters that cover both theory and practice. Most of the techniques and theoretical aspects are well enumerated and are compiled with adequate references at the end of each chapter. Many examples are given of how affinity chromatography can be used in health sciences and in biotechnological industry. In view of the fact that many modem laboratories use highly automated chromatographs some more reference to
Book Reviews/Analytics ChimicaActi 296 (1994) 219-222
the instrumentation, automated sample handling and data evaluation could have been included. In conclusion, this book is very useful with information that will be valuable to any scientist initiating work in the area of affinity chromatography and as a reference book for more experienced research workers. Tibor Cserh&i Trenak in Analytical Chemistry (TrAC), Reference Edition, Vol. 12, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993 (ISBN O-444-81805-7). viii + 601 pp. Price Dfl. 675.OO/US$387.75. As always, the Reference Edition of TrAC is bursting with up to date accounts of recent advances in analytical science, including the “computer corner” articles, as published in the monthly edition of TrAC. Articles on capillary electrophoresis and chiml analysis are accompanied by determination of rare earths in rocks, and of mycotoxins in foods, and single cell analysis by glow discharge mass spectrometry. This year, the volume is made considerably larger by the inclusion of the “Directory of Capillary Electrophoresis” (CE), which comprises full details of > 200 scientists who have published in this field (77 pp.>, a geographical index of these authors, au index of 18 companies manufacturing CE equipment, and an index of authors listed by techniques and areas of applications. D. Stevenson and I.D. Wilson (Eds.), SampZePreparation for Biomedical and Environmental Analysis, Plenum, New York, 1994 (ISBN O-306-44663-4). x + 246 pp. Price US$75.00. Sample preparation is one of the key areas of the analytical process; improper or inappropriate sample preparation will make subsequent analytical measurements difficult or invalid. Yet it is a subject that does not receive its due attention from researchers and funding bodies. It is particularly gratifying, therefore, that a symposium was dedicated to this subject in 1991, and that papers presented at the symposium have been made available to a wider audience in this book, albeit three years later. There are 24 papers covering several topics, especially
221
solid phase extraction, on-line and automated sample treatment and supercritical fluid extraction. Many well-known authors are included (e.g., Brinkman, R.M. Smith, I.D. Wilson, Novotny). The presentation of all articles is in a uniform style and format. There is a subject index, a compound index, and a list of authors. David H. Russel (Ed.), Experimental Mass S’ctrometry, Plenum, New York, 1994 (ISBN 0-30644457-7). xiii + 311 pp. Price US$79.50. This is the first of a series of volumes intended to describe the extensive developments in mass spectrometry (MS) that have taken place in the 1980s and 1990s. The present volume is “a guide for the non specialist”, comprising 8 chapters, written by 21 authors, all but one (Gailmann, who has written on multiple pulses and dimensions in FT Ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) MS) from the USA. The subjects covered include the fragmentation of (M - H)- ions, alkali adducts, colission-induced dissociations, experimental FTICRMS, protein structure elucidation by time-of-flight MS, liquid chromatography/FAB and electrospray ionisation MS, and tandem MS of large biomolecules. Volume 2 will be devoted entirely to matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation of biomolecules. S. Gijriig (Ed.), Advances in Steroid Analysis ‘93, Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on the Analysis of Steroids, Akademia Kiad6, Budapest (ISBN 963-056721-0). xiii + 623 pp. Price US$BS.OO. As with the previous triennial symposia in the series, the last being at P&X in 1990, this volume presents, in camera ready format, 65 of the papers presented at the Szombathely Conference, May 3-5, 1993. They are classified under receptor binding studies (9 papers), immunoassays (131, chromatography (lo), spectroscopy (31, biosynthesis and metabolism (B), clinical studies (13), environment steroids and cancer (7) and miscellaneous (2). There is a subject index. George Socrates, Infrared Characteristic Group Frequencies. Tables and Charts, 2nd edn., Wiley,