Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) are ubiquitous environmental pollutants that represent the largest class of suspected chemical carcinogens, and methods to study them have advanced rapidly in recent years. This comprehensive volume provides a critical review of new techniques for analyzing PACs, and of improvements to existing analytical methods. It covers occurrence, detection, and analysis of both homocyclic and heterocyclic species of PACs, and also describes new technology and instrumentation, including much information previously available only in journals. The work has been aimed at analytical chemists and environmental scientists.

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