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Sample Preparation for Biomedical and Environmental Analysis
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,
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,