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With that said process analytical chemistry (PAC) has been commonplace in several industries, even the pharmaceutical industry, prior to 2004. Riebe and Eustace differentiate PAC from analytical chemistry with one word location. PAC is typically spectroscopy, separations or chemometrics, as apphed either at-, in- or on-line to manufacturing. Several comprehensive application reviews of process analytical chemistry have been published in Analytical Chemistry since 1987. " In one of these reviews Workman et al. comment that PAT has continued to evolve as a more appropriate term than PAC while noting PAC has existed since 1911 but is just now finding common usage. The scope of PAT is much broader than that of PAC as the FDA guidance outlines the following desired state for manufacturing ... 

Academic kinetic investigations are generally performed in stationary solutions, typically in a cuvette. Continuous reactors are much more common in industrial situations. Using fiber-optic probes, absorption spectroscopy is routinely performed in flow reactors. The flow of reagents into a reactor or of a reaction mixture out of a reactor is also quantitatively modeled by appropriately modifying the set of differential equations. Refer to the engineering literature for details that are beyond the scope of this chapter [40],... 

Further recent developments in DSC and IR techniques, with respect to the study of SC barrier properties, include step-scan FT-IR photoacoustic spectroscopy [195] and combined microscopic differential calorimetry-Four-ier transform infrared (DSC-FTIR) spectroscopy [196]. The former allows depth profiling of the membrane the latter enables the simultaneous detection of calorimetric and structural modifications during a thermal transition. Technological advances in DSC and IR will, no doubt, continue to expand the application of these techniques to the study of skin barrier function. 

Interest in the monomerization of anthracene photodimers continues the head-to-tail dimer (290) (see p. 361) produced by irradiation of 9-cyanoanthracene has been investigated by two groups. " From results of differential scanning calorimetry and emission spectroscopy of cleaved surfaces of partially monomerized single crystals, it is suggested that the first exothermic peak (and the subsequent ones) arises from monomer crystallization in the photodimer host matrix. " Theocharis and Jones have also examined this retroprocess and using single crystal X-ray techniques they have shown that the first step in the solid-state thermal monomerization of this dimer is a... 

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy plays a major part in the elucidation of the structures of these bases, and continues to be the most valuable technique in structural work in the series. Pulsed nmr difference spectroscopy of small nuclear Overhauser effects between aromatic protons and o-methyl and /-methyl groups has permitted differentiation between two possible isomeric structures for dihydrodaphnine (D. Neuhaus et al.. Tetrahedron Letters, 1981, 2933. 

The unique capability of NMR spectroscopy to differentiate by means of molecular mobility makes it a perfect tool to assign chemical constituents to structural elements of a particle dispersion. This is most straightforward in the case of dispersed nanospheres every constituent which is part of the solid matrix will exhibit the slow particle tumbling, while all components of the liquid continuous phase undergo rapid rotational diffusion. 

D. Malleo, J. T. Nevill, L. P. Lee and Morgan H, Continuous differential impedance spectroscopy of single cells. Microfluid Nanofluid (accepted) (2009). 

Spectra originating from infrared, Raman and ultraviolet spectroscopy are reasonably approximated by smooth functions. The degree of smoothness is defined by the continuity of the various derivatives of the function. A function f is said to be k-times continuously differentiable or if (0 /0t ) f(t) is continuous for all points The traditional approach in multi-... 

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