Chromatography books

C. Horvath and J. AnalyticalPiotechnolog Capillay Electrophoresis and Chromatography, ACS Books, Washington, D.C., 1990. 

Recalling that a separation is achieved by moving the solute bands apart in the column and, at the same time, constraining their dispersion so that they are eluted discretely, it follows that the resolution of a pair of solutes is not successfully accomplished by merely selective retention. In addition, the column must be carefully designed to minimize solute band dispersion. Selective retention will be determined by the interactive nature of the two phases, but band dispersion is determined by the physical properties of the column and the manner in which it is constructed. It is, therefore, necessary to identify those properties that influence peak width and how they are related to other properties of the chromatographic system. This aspect of chromatography theory will be discussed in detail in Part 2 of this book. At this time, the theoretical development will be limited to obtaining a measure of the peak width, so that eventually the width can then be related both theoretically and experimentally to the pertinent column parameters. 

ASTM D 5296 - 92 (1994). Standard Test Method for Molecular Weight Averages and Moleeular Weight Distribution of Polystyrene by High Performance Size-Exclusion Chromatography. Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol.08.03, pp. 419-431. 

ASTM D-3536-91, Standard Test Method for Molecular Weight Averages and Molecular Weight Distribution by Liquid Exclusion Chromatography (Gel Permeation Chromatography-GPC), ASTM Annual Books of ASTM Standards, Vol. 08.02, P. 349—359. This method was deleted in the 1997 edition of the ASTM book. 

Most developments in the past two decades, however, have involved coupled column systems which are much more amenable to automation and more readily permit quantitative measurements, and such systems form the subject of this present book. A review on two-dimensional GC was published (43) in 1978 (and recently updated (29)), and the development by Liu and Phillips in 1991 of comprehensive 2D GC marked a particular advance (33). The fundamentals of HPLC-GC coupling have been set out (37) with great thoroughness by Grob. Other work on a number of other aspects of multidimensional chromatography have also been extensively reviewed (44,45). 

The versatility of chiral stationary phases and its effecitve application in both analytical and large-scale enantioseparation has been discussed in the earlier book A Practical Approach to Chiral Separation by Liquid Chromatography" (Ed. G. Sub-ramanian, VCH 1994). This book aims to bring to the forefront the current development and sucessful application chiral separation techniques, thereby providing an insight to researchers, analytical and industrial chemists, allowing a choice of methodology from the entire spectrum of available techniques. 

Maximum benefit from Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry will be obtained if the user is aware of the information contained in the book. That is, Part I should be read to gain a practical understanding of GC/MS technology. In Part II, the reader will discover the nature of the material contained in each chapter. GC conditions for separating specific compounds are found under the appropriate chapter headings. The compounds for each GC separation are listed in order of elution, but more important, conditions that are likely to separate similar compound types are shown. Part II also contains information on derivatization, as well as on mass spectral interpretation for derivatized and underivatized compounds. Part III, combined with information from a library search, provides a list of ion masses and neutral losses for interpreting unknown compounds. The appendices in Part IV contain a wealth of information of value to the practice of GC and MS. 

Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry A Practical Guide is designed to be a valuable resource to the GC/MS user by incorporating much of the practical information necessary for successful GC/MS operation into a single source. With this purpose in mind, the authors have kept the reading material practical and as brief as possible. This guide should be immediately valuable to the novice, as well as to the experienced GC/MS user who may not have the breadth of experience covered in this book. 

In this book, I have tried to show the way in which high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has developed, somewhat slowly it has to be said, into a powerful hybrid analytical technique. 

This volume is the second of a series of practice-orientated TLC/HPTLC books published in excellent quality by VCH Publishers. As in the first volume, a series of reagents and detection methods have been reviewed with the intention of helping the practical analyst increase the detection specificity of routine samples separated by thin-layer chromatography. 

It was against this background and in view of the fact that there is at present no contemporary monograph on thin-layer chromatography that this book was produced. It is intended as an introduction to the method, a reference book, and a laboratory handbook in one, i.e., far more than just a Reagent Book . 

The first part of the book consists of a detailed treatment of the fundamentals of thin-layer chromatography, and of measurement techniques and apparatus for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of thin-layer chromatograms. In situ prechromatographic derivatization techniques used to improve the selectivity of the separation, to increase the sensitivity of detection, and to enhance the precision of the subsequent quantitative analysis are summarized in numerous tables. 

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