Environmental analytical chemistry literature

The primary and secondary literature of analytical chemistry is a major source of new methods, techniques, variations of older methods, and of innovation. ACS publishes two premier journals. Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Science and Technology, that should be frequently consulted. The biennial reviews in Analytical Chemistry cover topics of interest to TEQA. There exists a host of other very relevant scientific journals and reviews such as the International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, Journal of Chromatography, Journal of Chromatographic Science, Chemosphere, and others that contain useful articles. Trade journals that arrive for free to qualified professionals include the following ... 

The analytical chemistry literature contains novel research that utilizes SPE as the principal sample preparation technique. Major journals in which it is likely that research using SPE will be presented include Analytical Chemistry and the applied biennial reviews, Journal of Chromatography, Journal of Chromatographic Science, Analytica Chimica Acta, LC-GC The Magazine of Separation Science, Environmental Testing Analysis, American Laboratory, American Environmental Laboratory, and Environmental Science and Technology. 

Gas chromatography is one of the most active areas of analytical chemistry, but many references in GC will be found in sources other than just chromatography or analytical chemistry. Thus, literature searches should take one to the journals on topics where GC may be utilized, for example, journals of biochemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, catalysis, environmental studies, drug analysis, forensic chemistry, petroleum chemistry, inorganic chemistry. 

The development of green Foodomics runs parallel to the improvement and design of techniques able to assess the environmental impact of the different protocols/processes/operations involved. At present several techniques can be found in the literature to test, for instance, the impact of analytical chemistry methods (such as the Greeness profile, the HPLC-EAT, or the Analytical Eco-Scale) and the environmental impacts associated with a product or process, over its entire life cycle (such as Life Cycle Assessment). Nevertheless, techniques able to provide a more holistic view of the different aspects... 

The biennial applications reviews in Analytical Chemistry are most useful, in-depth, comprehensive reviews by practitioners in the respective fields of the relevant literature and are invaluable sources for guides to the literature and highly recommended. Applications reviews cover targeted materials while in alternating years fundamental reviews deal with specific analytical techniques (the latter are referenced in later sections in this chapter on specific techniques). The following are several of the most recent (1991 to 2002) applications reviews in Analytical Chemistry on biological, environmental and related materials Anderson (coordi-... 

From the vast literature on RMs, overall general impressions may be obtained from the chapter by Maier (1993) on CRMs for the quality control of measurements in the book edited by Barcelo (1993), from books by Clement et al. (1997b) on reference materials for environmental analysis, by Fajgel and Parkany (1999). The use of matrix reference materials in environmental analytical processes, by Zschunke (2000) on Reference Materials in Analytical Chemistry - A Guide for Selection and Use, and by Stoeppler et al. 

AAS is a mature analytical technique. There are thousands of published methods for determining practically any element in almost any type of sample. There are books and journals devoted to analytical methods by AAS and other atomic spectrometry techniques. The bibliography provides a list of some texts on AAS. Journals such as Analytical Chemistry, Applied Spectroscopy, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy, The Analyst, Spectroscopy Letters, and others are sources of peer-reviewed articles, but many applications articles can be found in specialized journals on environmental chemistry, food analysis, geology, and so on. The applications discussion here is necessarily limited, but the available literature is vast. 

When available, standard methods of sampling and analysis should be used. The International Standard Organisation (ISO), the Comite Europeen de Normalisation (CEN) and various national bodies have published several methods for determination of airborne contaminants. Primary sources are the compendia of methods recommended by the regulatory bodies, i.e. the UK, HSE the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The HSE has published Methods for the Determination of Hazardous Substances (MDHS) for over 70 specific substances (Health and Safety Executive 1981-95). OSHA and NIOSH have published manuals with more than 500 and 100 sampling and analytical methods respectively (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 1994 Occupational Safety and Health Administration 1985). Secondary sources are published literature references in, for example. Annals of Occupational Hygiene, the American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, or Analytical Chemistry. 

Results comparable to those shown in Figure 1 can readily be achieved with most crude mixtures containing synthetic or naturally occurring peptides, using similar RPC strategies. The resolution of synthetic peptides prepared by solid- or solution-phase chemical methods is now so routine by analytical and preparative RPC methods that an April 2000 CD-ROM database search of relevant scientific journals revealed that over 2500 publications arise each year on the use of RPC for the purification or analysis of peptides as part of the scientific literature related to peptide chemistry and its application in various fields of the biomedical or biological science and in biotechnological applications related to the food, environmental, and pharmaceutical industries. 

Much of the literature on heavy-metal-bearing soils and sediments has been devoted to the speciation of anthropogenic metal(oid)s in contaminated matrices, but few papers focus on their crystal chemistry when they are present in trace amounts. This section reviews this topic and supplements and enhances the existing literature by describing the forms of arsenic, selenium, nickel, and zinc in two natural soils. It also attempts to illustrate with one example (Zn) how the novel synergistic use of pSXRF, pSXRD, and pEXAFS provides a quantitative analytical tool to speciate dilute multi-component metals in heterogeneous environmental materials. 

The recent analytical literature abounds with reports on the development of electrochemical, fiber optic, piezoelectric, and other sensors. Novel detection principles are frequently announced, and attainment of improved sensor quality in terms of selectivity, sensitivity, and lifetime are the goal of many established as well as newly formed research groups. The need for continuous monitoring of critical parameters in clinical chemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical, and nuclear industries, chemical warfare or environmental control is the driving force behind the sensor research. 

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