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Quantitative organische elementaranalyse
252
BOOK
M. Valcarcel and M.D. Luque de Castro, Nonchroma tographic
Continuous
Separation
Tech -
niques, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1991 (ISBN O-85186-986-6). xi + 290 pp. Price f42.50. Non-chromatographic continuous separation techniques are of interest and have gained popularity from being intermediate in complexity and performance between manual single-stage and chromatographic techniques. Their intrinsic dynamic characters permit on-line coupling to chromatographic systems and facilitate automation and miniaturization. The material has been grouped according to the type of interface across which mass transfers take place. Following a brief overview, Chapter 2 deals which gas-liquid systems (direct introduction of gas samples, gas diffusion, hydride generation and vapourization). Chapter 3 deals with liquid-liquid systems (dialysis and extraction). Chapter 4 discusses a wide variety of solid-solid interface systems (sorption, precipitation-dissolution, electrochemical stripping and leaching). The final chapter provides a description of within phase separations by field flow fractionation and capillary electrophoresis. A wide variety of analytical problems, species and samples is used as illustrations and add interest to the text. This wide ranging monograph will appeal and provide ideas for new approaches, not only to analytical chemists per se, but also to those whose interests are focussed by particular application areas such as clinical, pharmaceutical, environmental, metallurgical or food chemistry. D. Thorburn
Burns
REVIEWS
concern with respect to their effects on humans and other animals. The appearance of this “handbook” is therefore most timely. It comprises 3 volumes, with pages 21 x 28 cm, and is an updated and expanded combination of two previous texts co-authored by Hayes. There is a total of 22 chapters, authored by 32 scientists. Volume 1 (General Principles, 497 pp.) is exceedingly useful. It is essentially a text book of toxicology, but one in which all the examples relate to pesticides. Thus we have very detailed discussions of dosage and other effects influencing toxicity, metabolic processes, mode of action, human, domestic and wild animal studies, pesticide residues, recorded effects, diagnosis and treatment of poisoning, prevention/risk assessment and legal aspects. Volumes 2 and 3 deal with “Classes of Pesticides”, inorganic, organometallic, and natural and synthetic organic species. Full details of the nature, chemical and toxicological properties, with information about case histories in humans and animals, are given for each compound. There is a vast amount of tabulated information, and each chapter is extensively referenced. In total, this is a beautifully produced compendium (“handbook” hardly does it justice) of all there is to know about pesticide toxicology. It should be available in all libraries where pesticides, or toxic materials generally, are being studied. Alan Townshend
Friedrich
Ehrenberger, Quantitative organ&he VCH, Weinheim, 1991 (ISBN3-527-28056-H. viii + 863 pp. Preis DM325.00. Elementaranalyse,
Wayland J. Hayes, Jr. and Edward R. Laws, Jr., of Pesticide Toxicology, Academic Press, San Diego, 1991 (ISBN O-12-334161-2, Vol. 1; o-12-334162-0, Vol. 2; O-12-334163-9, Vol. 3). xi + 1576 pp. Price (3 Vol. set) US$395.00.
Handbook
There is little doubt that, without the use of pesticides, the population of this world could not feed itself. Yet the very toxic nature of this wide variety of compounds is a source of increasing
Das vorliegende Buch ist von seinem Aufhau und Inhalt her ein Labor-Handbuch, das eine detaillierte Beschreibung aller glngigen Methoden der Elementaranalyse in organischen Matrices gibt. Dabei wird das gesamte Spektrum von den einfachen klassischen bis zu den modernen instrumentellen und automatischen Methoden abgedeckt.
BOOK
253
REVIEWS
Im ersten Teil werden allgemeine Gesichtspunkte behandelt, wie z.B. Analysen-vorbereitung (organisatorische Aspekte), Probenahme, Probenvorbereitung, Trocknung, Wasser- und Asche-Bestimmung. Weitere Kapitel befassen sich mit den Themen Waagen, Signalauswertung, Datenverarbeitung und Statistik. Im speziellen Teil werden im besonderen die Methoden der CH-Bestimmung und der Bestimmung von 0, N und S breit und umfassend abgehandelt. Dann folgen Methoden fur Halogene, P, Si und B, denen sich die Methoden fur andere Metalloide und Metalle in organischen Matrices anschliessen. Die Beschreibungen behandeln alle Einzelschritte vom Probenaufschluss bis zur Interpretation der Resultate ausfiihrlich und sind klar formuliert. Komplizierte Vorgange und Get-ate werden durch Abbildungen illustriert. Damit ist dieses Buch nicht nur dem Anfinger als Lehrbuch niitzlich, sondern wird such dem Praktiker als Nachschlage-Werk ausgezeichnete Dienste leisten. J.T. Clerc
George
G. Guilbault (Ed.), Practical Fluorescence, 2nd Edn., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1990
(ISBN O-8247-8350-6). x + 812 pp. Price US$185 (U.S.A. and Canada), US$220.00 (all other countries). This revised edition integrates the principles of luminescence spectroscopy with practical analytical applications in a multi-author format. General aspects of luminescence spectroscopy, advantages and limitations of fluorescence and new techniques such as luminescence in organized media, synchronous scanning methods and multidimensional measurements are treated by the editor himself in the first chapter. Froehlich and Guilbault then continue by providing a practical chapter on fluorescence instrumentation whilst Wehry offers three chapters on the effects of molecular structure and of molecular environment on fluorescence and phosphorescence phenomena as well as on their application
to environmental analysis. Further on, Guilbault treats the fluorimetric determination of inorganic and organic substances. In the first case, inorganic species are mostly measured by the formation of highly fluorescent chelates of the ion with an organic ligand or by their fluorescence quenching of a ligand. In the second case, an extensive overview is presented of the many classes of organic compounds, including pharmaceuticals, that may be assayed fluorometrically. The potentials of solution and solid-surface phosphorescence in chemical analysis are illustrated by Hurtubise who describes low-temperature and room-temperature phosphorimetry and instrumentation. Specific applications on the application of fluorescence spectroscopy to analyse for pesticides and enzymes in environmental and biological substrates are given by Mallet and Guilbault, emphasizing instrumentation for measuring fluorescence on solid surfaces. Chemiluminescence and photobiosensors are growing relevant fields of analysis; Comet and Blum approach their analytical uses and present specific examples from recent literature. Chen discusses protein and peptide fluorescence together with polarization, lifetime and energy transfer-concepts, important in the study of macromolecules. The final chapter of Luong and Mulchandani focusses on the developments and applications of fluorescence sensors for monitoring bioprocesses. Summarizing, this book contains a wealth of theoretical and practical information, not only on fluorescence but on other luminescence-based fields too, such as chemiluminescence, phosphorescence or photobiosensors and will appeal to a wide audience of analytically oriented academic, industrial, and clinical scientists who use luminescence-based methodologies in their work. Willy R.G. Baeyens Eric Reid and Ian D. Wilson (Eds.), Analysis for Drugs and Metabolites, including Anti-infective Agents (Methodological Surveys in Biochemistry and Analysis, Vol. 20), Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1990 (ISBN O-85186-956-4). xiv + 386 pp. Price $62.50.
BOOK
M. Valcarcel and M.D. Luque de Castro, Nonchroma tographic
Continuous
Separation
Tech -
niques, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1991 (ISBN O-85186-986-6). xi + 290 pp. Price f42.50. Non-chromatographic continuous separation techniques are of interest and have gained popularity from being intermediate in complexity and performance between manual single-stage and chromatographic techniques. Their intrinsic dynamic characters permit on-line coupling to chromatographic systems and facilitate automation and miniaturization. The material has been grouped according to the type of interface across which mass transfers take place. Following a brief overview, Chapter 2 deals which gas-liquid systems (direct introduction of gas samples, gas diffusion, hydride generation and vapourization). Chapter 3 deals with liquid-liquid systems (dialysis and extraction). Chapter 4 discusses a wide variety of solid-solid interface systems (sorption, precipitation-dissolution, electrochemical stripping and leaching). The final chapter provides a description of within phase separations by field flow fractionation and capillary electrophoresis. A wide variety of analytical problems, species and samples is used as illustrations and add interest to the text. This wide ranging monograph will appeal and provide ideas for new approaches, not only to analytical chemists per se, but also to those whose interests are focussed by particular application areas such as clinical, pharmaceutical, environmental, metallurgical or food chemistry. D. Thorburn
Burns
REVIEWS
concern with respect to their effects on humans and other animals. The appearance of this “handbook” is therefore most timely. It comprises 3 volumes, with pages 21 x 28 cm, and is an updated and expanded combination of two previous texts co-authored by Hayes. There is a total of 22 chapters, authored by 32 scientists. Volume 1 (General Principles, 497 pp.) is exceedingly useful. It is essentially a text book of toxicology, but one in which all the examples relate to pesticides. Thus we have very detailed discussions of dosage and other effects influencing toxicity, metabolic processes, mode of action, human, domestic and wild animal studies, pesticide residues, recorded effects, diagnosis and treatment of poisoning, prevention/risk assessment and legal aspects. Volumes 2 and 3 deal with “Classes of Pesticides”, inorganic, organometallic, and natural and synthetic organic species. Full details of the nature, chemical and toxicological properties, with information about case histories in humans and animals, are given for each compound. There is a vast amount of tabulated information, and each chapter is extensively referenced. In total, this is a beautifully produced compendium (“handbook” hardly does it justice) of all there is to know about pesticide toxicology. It should be available in all libraries where pesticides, or toxic materials generally, are being studied. Alan Townshend
Friedrich
Ehrenberger, Quantitative organ&he VCH, Weinheim, 1991 (ISBN3-527-28056-H. viii + 863 pp. Preis DM325.00. Elementaranalyse,
Wayland J. Hayes, Jr. and Edward R. Laws, Jr., of Pesticide Toxicology, Academic Press, San Diego, 1991 (ISBN O-12-334161-2, Vol. 1; o-12-334162-0, Vol. 2; O-12-334163-9, Vol. 3). xi + 1576 pp. Price (3 Vol. set) US$395.00.
Handbook
There is little doubt that, without the use of pesticides, the population of this world could not feed itself. Yet the very toxic nature of this wide variety of compounds is a source of increasing
Das vorliegende Buch ist von seinem Aufhau und Inhalt her ein Labor-Handbuch, das eine detaillierte Beschreibung aller glngigen Methoden der Elementaranalyse in organischen Matrices gibt. Dabei wird das gesamte Spektrum von den einfachen klassischen bis zu den modernen instrumentellen und automatischen Methoden abgedeckt.
BOOK
253
REVIEWS
Im ersten Teil werden allgemeine Gesichtspunkte behandelt, wie z.B. Analysen-vorbereitung (organisatorische Aspekte), Probenahme, Probenvorbereitung, Trocknung, Wasser- und Asche-Bestimmung. Weitere Kapitel befassen sich mit den Themen Waagen, Signalauswertung, Datenverarbeitung und Statistik. Im speziellen Teil werden im besonderen die Methoden der CH-Bestimmung und der Bestimmung von 0, N und S breit und umfassend abgehandelt. Dann folgen Methoden fur Halogene, P, Si und B, denen sich die Methoden fur andere Metalloide und Metalle in organischen Matrices anschliessen. Die Beschreibungen behandeln alle Einzelschritte vom Probenaufschluss bis zur Interpretation der Resultate ausfiihrlich und sind klar formuliert. Komplizierte Vorgange und Get-ate werden durch Abbildungen illustriert. Damit ist dieses Buch nicht nur dem Anfinger als Lehrbuch niitzlich, sondern wird such dem Praktiker als Nachschlage-Werk ausgezeichnete Dienste leisten. J.T. Clerc
George
G. Guilbault (Ed.), Practical Fluorescence, 2nd Edn., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1990
(ISBN O-8247-8350-6). x + 812 pp. Price US$185 (U.S.A. and Canada), US$220.00 (all other countries). This revised edition integrates the principles of luminescence spectroscopy with practical analytical applications in a multi-author format. General aspects of luminescence spectroscopy, advantages and limitations of fluorescence and new techniques such as luminescence in organized media, synchronous scanning methods and multidimensional measurements are treated by the editor himself in the first chapter. Froehlich and Guilbault then continue by providing a practical chapter on fluorescence instrumentation whilst Wehry offers three chapters on the effects of molecular structure and of molecular environment on fluorescence and phosphorescence phenomena as well as on their application
to environmental analysis. Further on, Guilbault treats the fluorimetric determination of inorganic and organic substances. In the first case, inorganic species are mostly measured by the formation of highly fluorescent chelates of the ion with an organic ligand or by their fluorescence quenching of a ligand. In the second case, an extensive overview is presented of the many classes of organic compounds, including pharmaceuticals, that may be assayed fluorometrically. The potentials of solution and solid-surface phosphorescence in chemical analysis are illustrated by Hurtubise who describes low-temperature and room-temperature phosphorimetry and instrumentation. Specific applications on the application of fluorescence spectroscopy to analyse for pesticides and enzymes in environmental and biological substrates are given by Mallet and Guilbault, emphasizing instrumentation for measuring fluorescence on solid surfaces. Chemiluminescence and photobiosensors are growing relevant fields of analysis; Comet and Blum approach their analytical uses and present specific examples from recent literature. Chen discusses protein and peptide fluorescence together with polarization, lifetime and energy transfer-concepts, important in the study of macromolecules. The final chapter of Luong and Mulchandani focusses on the developments and applications of fluorescence sensors for monitoring bioprocesses. Summarizing, this book contains a wealth of theoretical and practical information, not only on fluorescence but on other luminescence-based fields too, such as chemiluminescence, phosphorescence or photobiosensors and will appeal to a wide audience of analytically oriented academic, industrial, and clinical scientists who use luminescence-based methodologies in their work. Willy R.G. Baeyens Eric Reid and Ian D. Wilson (Eds.), Analysis for Drugs and Metabolites, including Anti-infective Agents (Methodological Surveys in Biochemistry and Analysis, Vol. 20), Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 1990 (ISBN O-85186-956-4). xiv + 386 pp. Price $62.50.