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subject well in producing what appears to be a comprehensive source book on this subject. C.P. Thomas
S.M. Khopkar, Basic Concept of Analytical Chemistry, Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi, 1984, Third Reprint 1992 (ISBN O-85226-461-5). xvi + 368 pp. Price 70 Rupees. Above the publishers name on the title page is the statement “Publishing for one world”. It is clearly not one world when students in one geographical region are sold a straight reprint of a text in a rapidly changing subject that is 10 years old. It is unacceptable that methods now so routine as flow-injection analysis and chiral chromatography are omitted from a student level text. In 1984 this was a well balanced book and a credit to its author. With careful and sensitive revision it could again be of great value. It is to be hoped that the publishers will follow this course of action and demonstrate that they know the differences between useful classical methods and out of date instrumentation and technologies.
Cees van Dijk (Ed.), Analytical Biotechnology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993 (ISBN O-444-81640-2) iv + 202 pp. Price Dfl. 265.00, US $151.50. This is a collection of papers, previously published in Anal. Chim. Acta, Vol. 279, presented at Anabiotec ‘92, the Fourth International Symposium on Analytical Methods, Systems and Strategies in Biotechnology, held at Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, September 21-23, 1992. The papers are arranged in sections dealing with process control (7 papers), chromatography, etc. (61, antibodies (11, biosensors (31, instrumental techniques (4), enzymatic analysis (11 and colloidal carbon particles (1). As such they present a good cross-section of the applications of analytical chemistry to analyses in the biotechnology area, and of biotechnology to facilitate analytical measurements, and provide a record of a popular symposium.
AA. Szalay, L.J. Kricka and P. Stanley (Eds.), Bioluminescence and Chemiluminexence, Status Report, Wiley, Chichester, 1993 (ISBN O-47194164-6). xvi + 548 pp. Price f90.00. These are the proceedings of the WZth International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, held in Banff, Canada, 1418th March 1993, and produced, unreviewed, with commendable speed in camera-ready format. Each author is restricted to 5 pages. The material is divided amongst 5 sections, viz. instrumentation for light detection (10 papers), molecular biology and biochemistry (371, chemihuninescent and bioluminescent assays (42), cellular luminescence (12) and chemiluminescence and bioluminescence (8). There is a mixed subject/author index. The presentation is generally very clear, and there is a tremendous coverage of current developments in a very topical area.
Michael Buback and Hans Peter Vogele, PT-NIR Atlas, VCH, Weinheim, 1993 (ISBN 3-527-285639). xiv + 1067 pp. Price DM 880.00. The core of this publication is the hard copy of the library of 1957 digital FT-near IR spectra, mostly of individual compounds, held by Chemical Concepts, part of the VCH Publishing Group, and founded under an initiative by the German Ministry of Research and Technology. The spectra appear in alphabetical order (starting with BBr, and finishing with H,O), with the vast majority relating to carbon compounds, which appear in traditional Chemical Abstracts order. Much other information (molar mass, density, m.p., b.p., CAS Reg. No.) is also included, as are the frequencies of the most intense peaks. Information retrieval is via a formula index, compound name index, CAS Reg. No. index. The information is also available in electronic form. The format is designed to be as similar as possible to the Merck FT-IR Atlas (VCH, 19881, and the Atlases may be purchased as a pair at a reduced price.
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subject well in producing what appears to be a comprehensive source book on this subject. C.P. Thomas
S.M. Khopkar, Basic Concept of Analytical Chemistry, Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi, 1984, Third Reprint 1992 (ISBN O-85226-461-5). xvi + 368 pp. Price 70 Rupees. Above the publishers name on the title page is the statement “Publishing for one world”. It is clearly not one world when students in one geographical region are sold a straight reprint of a text in a rapidly changing subject that is 10 years old. It is unacceptable that methods now so routine as flow-injection analysis and chiral chromatography are omitted from a student level text. In 1984 this was a well balanced book and a credit to its author. With careful and sensitive revision it could again be of great value. It is to be hoped that the publishers will follow this course of action and demonstrate that they know the differences between useful classical methods and out of date instrumentation and technologies.
Cees van Dijk (Ed.), Analytical Biotechnology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993 (ISBN O-444-81640-2) iv + 202 pp. Price Dfl. 265.00, US $151.50. This is a collection of papers, previously published in Anal. Chim. Acta, Vol. 279, presented at Anabiotec ‘92, the Fourth International Symposium on Analytical Methods, Systems and Strategies in Biotechnology, held at Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, September 21-23, 1992. The papers are arranged in sections dealing with process control (7 papers), chromatography, etc. (61, antibodies (11, biosensors (31, instrumental techniques (4), enzymatic analysis (11 and colloidal carbon particles (1). As such they present a good cross-section of the applications of analytical chemistry to analyses in the biotechnology area, and of biotechnology to facilitate analytical measurements, and provide a record of a popular symposium.
AA. Szalay, L.J. Kricka and P. Stanley (Eds.), Bioluminescence and Chemiluminexence, Status Report, Wiley, Chichester, 1993 (ISBN O-47194164-6). xvi + 548 pp. Price f90.00. These are the proceedings of the WZth International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, held in Banff, Canada, 1418th March 1993, and produced, unreviewed, with commendable speed in camera-ready format. Each author is restricted to 5 pages. The material is divided amongst 5 sections, viz. instrumentation for light detection (10 papers), molecular biology and biochemistry (371, chemihuninescent and bioluminescent assays (42), cellular luminescence (12) and chemiluminescence and bioluminescence (8). There is a mixed subject/author index. The presentation is generally very clear, and there is a tremendous coverage of current developments in a very topical area.
Michael Buback and Hans Peter Vogele, PT-NIR Atlas, VCH, Weinheim, 1993 (ISBN 3-527-285639). xiv + 1067 pp. Price DM 880.00. The core of this publication is the hard copy of the library of 1957 digital FT-near IR spectra, mostly of individual compounds, held by Chemical Concepts, part of the VCH Publishing Group, and founded under an initiative by the German Ministry of Research and Technology. The spectra appear in alphabetical order (starting with BBr, and finishing with H,O), with the vast majority relating to carbon compounds, which appear in traditional Chemical Abstracts order. Much other information (molar mass, density, m.p., b.p., CAS Reg. No.) is also included, as are the frequencies of the most intense peaks. Information retrieval is via a formula index, compound name index, CAS Reg. No. index. The information is also available in electronic form. The format is designed to be as similar as possible to the Merck FT-IR Atlas (VCH, 19881, and the Atlases may be purchased as a pair at a reduced price.