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Chemistry topic areas include: physical and theoretical, computational, organic, organometallic and inorganic, pharmaceutical and medicinal, analytical and bioanalytical, nuclear, general, nanochemistry, geochemistry, materials and polymer, as well as environmental, green and sustainable chemistry.

  • Advances in Organometallic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 26
    • English

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29
    • English

  • Cumulative Subject Index Vols. 81-94, 96-101

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 120
    • English
    The critically acclaimed laboratory standard, Methods in Enzymology, is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. The series contains much material still relevant today - truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences.

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28
    • English

  • Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Organic Functional Group Preparations

    Organic Chemistry A Series of Monographs
    • 2nd Edition
    • Stanley R. Sandler + 1 more
    • English
    Volume II describes 17 additional functional groups and presents a critical review of their available methods of synthesis with preparative examples of each. Attention is especially paid to presenting specific laboratory directions for the many name reactions used in describing the synthesis of these functional groups.

  • Advances in Quantum Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 18
    • English

  • Optimization of Chromatographic Selectivity

    A Guide to Method Development
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35
    • P.J. Schoenmakers
    • English
    This is the first detailed description of method development in chromatography - the overall process of which may be summarized as: method selection, phase selection, selectivity optimization, and system optimization. All four aspects receive attention in this book.Chapter 1 gives a short introduction, describes chromatographic theory and nomenclature, and outlines the method development process. Chapter 2 describes guidelines for method selection, and quantitative concepts for characterizing and classifying chromatographic phases. Selective separation methods, from both gas and liquid chromatography are given in Chapter 3; the main parameters of each method are identified and simple, quantitative relations are sought to describe their effects. Criteria by which to judge the quality of separation are discussed in Chapter 4 with clear recommendations for different situations. The specific problems involved in the optimization of chromatographic selectivity are explained in Chapter 5. Optimization procedures, illustrated by examples, are extensively described and compared on the basis of a number of criteria. Suggestions are made both for the application of different procedures and for further research. The optimization of programmed analysis receives special attention in Chapter 6, and the last chapter summarizes the optimization of the chromatographic system, including the optimization of the efficiency, sensitivity and instrumentation.Thos... involved in developing chromatographic methods or wishing to improve existing methods will value the detailed, structured way in which the subject is presented. Because optimization procedures and criteria are described as elements of a complete optimization package, the book will help the reader to understand, evaluate and select current and future commercial systems.

  • Electroanalysis

    Theory and Applications in Aqueous and Non-Aqueous Media and in Automated Chemical Control
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 7
    • E.A.M.F. Dahmen
    • English
    Electroanalysis as a representative of the wet-chemical methods has many advantages, such as: selectivity and sensitivity, nothwithstanding its inexpensive equipment; ample choice of possibilities and direct accessibility, especially to electronic and hence automatic control even at distance; automated data treatment; and simple insertion, if desirable, into a process-regulation loop. There may be circumstances in which an electroanalytical method, as a consequence of the additional chemicals required, has disadvantages in comparison with instrumental techniques of analysis; however the above-mentioned advantages often make electroanalysis the preferred approach for chemical control in industrial and environmental studies.This book provides the reader with a full understanding of what electroanalysis can do in these fields. It presents on the one hand a systematic treatment of the subject and its commonly used techniques on a more explanatory basis, and on the other it illustrates the practical applications of these techniques in chemical control in industry, health and environment. As such control today requires the increasing introduction of automation and computerization, electroanalysis with its direct input and/or output of electrical signals often has advantages over other techniques especially because recent progress in electronics and computerization have greatly stimulated new developments in the electroanalysis techniques themselves. Part A looks systematically at electroanalysis while more attention is paid in Part B to electroanalysis in non-aqueous media in view of its growing importance. The subject is rounded off in Part C by some insight into and examples of applications to automated chemical control.

  • Electrode Kinetics: Principles and Methodology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 26
    • C.H. Bamford + 2 more
    • English
    Volumes 26 and 27 are both concerned with reactions occurring at electrodes arising through the passage of current. They provide a comprehensive review of the study of electrode kinetics. The basic ideas and experimental methodology are presented in Volume 26 whilst Volume 27 deals with reactions at particular types of electrodes.Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to both volumes and is a survey of the fundamental principles of electrode kinetics. Chapter 2 deals with mass transport - how material gets to and from an electrode. Chapter 3 provides a review of linear sweep and cyclic voltammetry which constitutes an extensively used experimental technique in the field. Chapter 4 discusses a.c. and pulse methods which are a rich source of electrochemical information. Finally, chapter 5 discusses the use of electrodes in which there is forced convection, the so-called ``hydrodynamic electrodes''.

  • Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • English
    NMR spectroscopy has grown to be a vitally important technique with applications in many areas of science. Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy is quickly becoming the source for the latest information on current progress, both experimental and theoretical. Chemists in a variety of disciplines will be interested in this up-to-date, comprehensive series.

  • Chemical Derivatization in Gas Chromatography

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • J. Drozd
    • English

  • Selective Gas Chromatographic Detectors

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36
    • M. Dressler
    • English
    This book gives a comprehensive, up-to-date review of all selective detectors used in combination with gas chromatography. For each detector, the historical background, design and principle are described, and the working parameters affecting the detector performance are analyzed critically and in detail. The analytical possibilities of the detectors and the main characteristics such as sensitivity, noise and minimum detectability are discussed. All the selective detectors that are currently used are discussed in detail. Combinations of GC with other techniques such as plasma emission spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectrometry, ion-selective electrodes, piezoelectric sorption detector, mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy are discussed briefly.Chromatograp... and users of gas chromatographs, especially in the field of environmental protection, agriculture, clinical chemistry, and toxicology will find the book useful to their work. Institutes and organisations dealing with analytical chemistry will also find it of interest.

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 39
    • English

  • Advances in Organometallic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 25
    • English

  • Advances in Clinical Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 25
    • English

  • Liquid Chromatography Detectors

    • 2nd Edition
    • Volume 33
    • R.P.W. Scott
    • English
    The renaissance of liquid chromatography took place in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The first edition of this book published in 1977 described the detectors that were available at that time and which provided a performance matching that of the contemporary equipment with which they were associated. It is interesting to note that the most popular detectors then (the UV detector, the refractometer detector, the fluorescence detector and the electrical conductivity detector) are still the most commonly used detectors nearly a decade later. Detector design, however, has changed very significantly over the intervening years. Modern high efficiency columns provide very narrow peaks and very fast separations, and thus the physical design of the detectors had to change to meet these new challenges. In 1977, there was little real understanding of the important role played by the detector in the overall function of the chromatographic system and although some of the factors were pointed out in the first edition of this book, in retrospect they appeared to be little understood.This second edition gives an entirely new presentation of the subject of liquid chromatography detectors. It contains sections dealing with the fundamental aspects of the interaction between columns and detectors and the interaction between ancillary equipment and the detector. It brings the reader up-to-date with new designs and novel detecting systems that have been developed since 1977 and extends significantly the subject of the association of the liquid chromatography detector with spectroscopic techniques. In particular the book now explores the association of liquid chromatography with nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared and atomic absorption spectrometry. This book not only gives a comprehensive treatment of the subject of liquid chromatographic detectors and provides a rational procedure for defining their performance and so permit valid comparisons, but also discusses detector performance in relation to the whole of the chromatographic system.

  • Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • J.E. Cantle
    • English
    The topic is treated here in a very practical manner. The bulk of the book is concerned with real-life analyses for practising instrumentalists and differs from the literature supplied by manufacturers of atomic absorption instruments in that the methods described can be interpreted using all sorts of hardware, and in that far more chemistry and sample preparation are included.

  • Advances in Inorganic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29
    • English

  • Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 43
    • English

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 26
    • English

  • Advances in Clinical Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24
    • English

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 25
    • English

  • Rates of Phase Transformations

    • 1st Edition
    • Robert H. Doremus
    • English

  • Asymmetric Synthesis

    Volume 5
    • 1st Edition
    • James D. Morrison
    • English
    The chapters in this volume have been written by some of the foremost practictioners in the field and should be of interest to both mechanistic and synthetic chemists.

  • Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 16
    • English
    The current extent of applications of NMR spectroscopy to molecular problems is indicated by the diversity of the reviews presented in this volume. Dr. H.W.E. Rattle reports on NMR of amino acids, peptides, and proteins, which brings his account in Volume 11A up to date.

  • Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 14
    • English

  • Advances in Organometallic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24
    • English

  • Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry APL

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21
    • English

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 38
    • English

  • The Science of Chromatography

    Lectures Presented at the A.J.P. Martin Honorary Symposium, Urbino
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 32
    • English

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24
    • English

  • Gradient Elution in Column Liquid Chromatography

    Theory and Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 31
    • P. Jandera + 1 more
    • English

  • Advances in Quantum Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 17
    • English

  • Diffusion-Limited Reactions

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 25
    • S.A. Rice
    • English

  • Kinetics and Chemical Technology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 23
    • R.G. Compton + 2 more
    • English

  • Microprocessor Programming and Applications for Scientists and Engineers

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • R.R. Smardzewski
    • English

  • Phosphorus

    An Outline of Its Chemistry, Biochemistry and Technology
    • 3rd Edition
    • D.E.C. Corbridge
    • English
    Phosphorus: An Outline of Its Chemistry, Biochemistry and Technology, Third Edition discusses aspects of phosphorus chemistry: organic, inorganic, biochemical, physical, environmental, and technical. This book continues to deal with both basic material and highlights from the previous two editions; it also includes a new chapter (Chapter 11) devoted exclusively to biochemistry. Further discussions on the element has been included in the appendices that cover the literature and nomenclature of phosphorus compounds; hazards of common phosphorus compounds; properties of white phosphorus, phosphine PH3, and orthophosphoric acid; composition of strong phosphoric acids; solutions; composition of phosphate buffer solutions; and atomic data for the elements. This text is intended for students with a reasonable knowledge of general chemistry to acquire the necessary groundwork before undertaking detailed searching of the literature or reading highly specialized reviews. This edition also serves as a reference text and guide to advanced study for research workers and technologists with interests in related fields.

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 37
    • English

  • Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 20
    • English

  • Advances in Inorganic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28
    • English

  • Advances in Organometallic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 23
    • English

  • Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients and Related Methodology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 13
    • English

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36
    • English

  • Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 42
    • English

  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 23
    • English

  • Reactions of Solids with Gases

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21
    • C.H. Bamford + 2 more
    • English

  • Simple Processes at the Gas-Solid Interface

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 19
    • R.G. Compton + 2 more
    • English

  • Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 15
    • English

  • Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35
    • English

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