This is a single source of authoritative information on all aspects of the practice of modern gas chromatography. It has comprehensive coverage of modern gas chromatography including theory, instrumentation, columns, and applications addressing the needs of advanced students and professional scientists in industry and government laboratories. Individual chapters are written by recognized experts on each topic. Each chapter is complete with respect to its contents and can stand alone as a description of the topic presented. It presents the big picture of gas chromatography from theory, to methods, to selected applications. It provides references to other sources in associated areas of study to facilitate research. It gives access to core data for practical work, comparison of results and decision making.
Editorial Reviews
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“The book presents important research into and reviews of new methods, and also provides an update on applications of gas chromatography in various fields…The wide coverage makes this an excellent reference book on the subject for scientists and for graduate students.” —Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry online, May 18, 2013
“…recommend this work for its high-level coverage of the fundamentals…written by experts in the field…for advanced students and professionals.” –CHOICE,March 2013
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A single source of authoritative information on all aspects of the practice of modern gas chromatography
From the Back Cover
Gas Chromatography provides a contemporary picture of the field, including fundamentals and practical applications, in a single source.
Key features:
Individual chapters, written by recognized authoritative and visionary experts in the field, provide an overview and focused treatment of a single topic.
Comprehensive coverage of modern gas chromatography from theory, to methods, to selected applications.
Provides extensive selected references to facilitate research.
Tables with commonly-used data facilitate practical work, comparison of results, and decision making.
Treatment of the topic places modern developments in the research literature into a general context.
About the Author
Professor Colin Poole is internationally known in the field of thin-layer chromatography and is an editor of the Journal of Chromatography and former editor of the Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLC. He has authored several books on chromatography, recent examples being The Essence of Chromatography published by Elsevier (2003), and Gas Chromatography published by Elsevier (2012). He is the author of approximately 400 research articles, many of which deal with thin-layer chromatography, and is co-chair of the biennial “International Symposium on High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography.