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This interesting book covers latest aspects of a highly sophisticated technology; results treated in critical detail; demonstrates applicability of this technology to practical problems in process control, biochip methods, clinical analysis, environmental sciences

Chronicles the theory and practical applications of chiral technology by focusing on the efficient preparation, isolation, and separation of chiral molecules in optically pure forms. Discusses asymmetric synthesis and chiral resolution in a variety of contexts, including enantioselective reactions and additions, enzyme-catalyzed reactions, chromatographic methods with various chiral stationary phases or chiral discriminators, and enantioselective membrane transport.

In this second edition of the handbook the amount of data has doubled and will be published in 39 volumes plus synonym index. The concise and complete work describes around 5,000 enzymes which are sufficiently well characterized as well as their application in analytical, synthetic and biotechnology processes,in the food industry, and for medicinal treatments. Data sheets are arranged in their EC number sequence. There exist about 25,000 synonyms for the 4,400 enzymes which are classified until...

The isolation and structural characterization of substances present at very low concentrations, as is necessary to satisfy regulatory requirements for pharmaceutical drug degradants and impurities, can present scientific challenges. The coupling of HPLC with NMR spectroscopy has been at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies to address these issues. LC-NMR: Expanding the Limits of Structure Elucidation presents a comprehensive overview of key concepts in HPLC and NMR that are required to ach...

Table of contents C. Heise, F.F. Bier: Immobilization of DNA on Microarrays.- I. Palchetti; M. Mascini: Electrochemical Adsorption Technique for Immobilisation of Single-Stranded Oligonucleotides onto Carbon Screen-Printed Electrodes.- Q. Du, O. Larsson, H. Swerdlow, Z. Liang: DNA Immobilization: Silanized Nucleic Acids and Nanoprinting.- C.L. Smith, J.S. Milea, G.H. Nguyen: Immobilization of Nucleic Acids Using the Biotin-Strept(avidin) Systems.- K. Yokoyama, S. Taira: Self-Assembly DNA-Conjuga...

This book provides basic coverage of the fundamentals and principles of green chemistry as it applies to chemical analysis. The main goal of Green Analytical Chemistry is to avoid or reduce the undesirable environmental side effects of chemical analysis, while preserving the classic analytical parameters of accuracy, sensitivity, selectivity, and precision. The authors review the main strategies for greening analytical methods, concentrating on minimizing sample preparation and handling, reducin...

This book provides a lucid introduction to the basics of gemmology. It familiarizes archaeologists, art historians and conservators with the science of gemstones and allows them to understand the basic concepts of their provenance, typology and treatments.Which are the main types of gems? What treatments can be applied? How does one analyse gems? How can gems contribute to archaeometrical research?This volume is written by four experts in the fields of gemmology and archaeometry and addresses bo...

South Africa's consistent demonstrations of disdain for international standards of human rights is clearly revealed in its racist legislation. As pressure mounts for real change in South Africa, and the prospects for the demise of the apartheid order become more likely, the existing laws are coming under stress. This book, the first in an annual series, reviews changes and developments in two key areas of social justice, namely human rights and labour relations. The contributors summarize the pe...

In todays’ world with its widespread usage of personal-care products, pharmaceuticals, surfactants, flame retardants, plasticizers, various industrial additives, metals and metalloids, pesticides, and pesticide metabolites, environmental contaminants are an increasing source of pollution with a severe effect on the ecological system. Industry that produces these contaminants must find answers to remediate this. Nanomaterials in Environmental Analysis contributes to solving this problem by provi...

These are the proceedings of the SIMS VII, which was the seventh in a series of conferences held biennially. It was dedicated to the memory of Donald E. Harrison, Jr and his pioneering research in the mechanisms of ion beam sputtering and in the use of molecular dynamics simulations for the study of ion bombardment of solids. Other than the Harrison memorial papers, speakers at the conference covered three other major areas. These were: organic and biological analyses; enhancement techniques; an...

Ultrasound is an energy source that has the potential for enhancing many stages of experimental analysis, but analytical chemists generally have limited knowledge of this technique. Analytical Applications of Ultrasound lays the foundations for practicing analytical chemists to consider ways of exploiting ultrasound energy in their research. This timely and unique book covers a broad range of information about ultrasound, providing advances in ultrasound equipment and demonstrations of how this...

This volume provides the basic principles of nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic relaxation, with the aim of helping students and researchers in various fields of science and technology to obtain a deeper understanding of the subject. It reviews the nature of spin operators and the commutation relationship between them, the behaviour of nuclear magnetism in a static field, and describes the basic theory of the resonance absorption spectrum. The book evaluates Kubo and Tomita's theory which c...

Humic substances are everywhere; in plants, soils and water. These brown materials are the most versatile and widely dispersed organic compounds on Earth. Studies of humic substances sustain all current efforts to bioremediate and purify water, develop and support sustainable agriculture, decontaminate polluted soil, and combat soul desertification and erosion. Taken from the 2004 Humic Substances Seminar VII held at Northeastern University, this selection of expert papers investigate the impo...

The first ever book on the applications of fullerenes and nanotubes. World's experts on the industrial use of these new forms of carbon contributes chapters, that are based on lectures given in a large workshop held on February 2001, and expanded thereafter. The contents are intended for those who are interested in the exploration of industrial applications of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes.

Advances in natural product chemistry have led to a large number of drugs, both derived from medicinal plants, marine plants, and animals, and created as synthetic analogues of these sources. This ground-breaking, comprehensive volume presents the latest data on the 13C-NMR of monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes.

Several hundred nuclear scientists from more than a dozen countries met in Miami Beach, Florida, in September 1989 for a Symposium on Exotic Nuclear Spectroscopy, sponsored by the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology of the Amencan Chemical Society. Braving five days of beckoning beaches, they presented, listened to, and discussed a series spectroscopy-both experimental and of invited papers covering the renaissance of nuclear theoretical-that has occurred during the past decade and whic...

This book provides a line of communication between academia and end users/practitioners to advance forensic science and boost its contribution to criminal investigations and court cases. By covering the state of the art of promising technologies for the analysis of trace evidence using a controlled vocabulary, this book targets the forensics community as well as, crucially, informing the end users on novel and potential forensic opportunities for the fight against crime. By reporting end users...

Chemometrics and Chemoinformatics gives chemists and other scientists an introduction to the field of chemometrics and chemoinformatics. Chemometrics is an approach to analytical chemistry based on the idea of indirect observation. Measurements related to the chemical composition of a substance are taken, and the value of a property of interest is inferred from them through some mathematical relation. Basically, chemometrics is a process. Measurements are made, data is collected, and information...

This monograph provides detailed information on the principles, instrumentation, and application of X-ray diffraction at elevated temperatures. More particularly, it summarizes the uses of intense X-ray sources and position-sensitive detectors to assess them in comparison with competing techniques for in situ process analysis at elevated temperatures. This book is intended for use in the training of personnel and in the promotion of the process. Within the areas of X-ray diffraction, materials c...