| ... Now in its sixth edition, [this book] has developed and grown in size and stature and is much improved... Each chapter comes with a useful collection of additional material such as bibliographies, sources of spectral databases, experiments and problems. ...worthy of specific attention is the coverage of spectral methods. ...most major general textbooks choose to focus on the instrumentation and leave spectral interpretation to more specialized texts. Unusually, this text has incorporated quite extensive sections on the interpretation, [effectively removing] the artificial boundary between the construction and function of the instrument and the understanding of the results that the instrument generates. ...[This book] is now a much stronger contender for adoption by course instructors. ...
Completely rewritten, revised, and updated, this Sixth Edition reflects the latest technologies and applications in spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and chromatography. It illustrates practices and methods specific to each major chemical analytical technique while showcasing innovations and trends currently impacting the field. Many of the chapters have been individually reviewed by teaching professors and include descriptions of the fundamental principles underlying each technique, demonstrations of the instrumentation, and new problem sets and suggested experiments appropriate to the topic. |