Analytical Chemistry: A Chemist and Laboratory Technicians Toolkit

A comprehensive study of analytical chemistry providing the basics of analytical chemistry and introductions to the laboratory

Analytical Chemistry: A Chemist and Laboratory Technician′s Toolkit provides an introduction to the laboratory including safety and lab basics, and then moves through the fundamentals of analytical techniques such as spectroscopy and chromatography, most common lab instrumentation, and examples of laboratory programs such as laboratory information management systems (LIMS).  

Also included is a teaching companion, reference, and toolkit program called ChemTech. The ChemTech program contains lesson exercises that stress and review topics covered in the book. Also included are useful calculators, an interactive periodic table, and a copy of all of the chapters of the book that can be opened and read on a computer or other electronic devices.

Analytical Chemistry features:

The basics of a chemistry lab including lab safety, glassware, and common instrumentation

Fundamentals of analytical techniques such as wet chemistry, instrumental analyses, spectroscopy, chromatography, FTIR, NMR, XRF, XRD, HPLC, GC–MS, Capillary Electrophoresis, and proteomics

ChemTech an interactive program that contains lesson exercises, useful calculators and an interactive periodic table

A very useful computer program LIMS is used to input data, track sample progress, record sample data such as company, type, and tests needed and so forth. A chapter on LIMS provides examples for logging in samples, inputting data, searching samples, approving samples, and printing reports and certificates of analysis (C of A).

The ChemTech program is a teaching tool designed to equip the chemist, the laboratory analyst, and the technician for a career in the analytical laboratory whether it is a clinical lab, an industrial, petrochemical, petroleum, environmental, college or university, or contract lab.

The book is a core reference for chemists, lab technicians, undergraduate students studying the sciences, an undergraduate analytical chemistry class, or a graduate analytical chemistry class. Also a vital tool for the method developer and researcher who are interested in areas of analytical chemistry not familiar with including academic groups, pharmaceutical companies, contract labs, environmental labs, petrochemical and polymer industry, and the health care industry.

Bryan M. Ham, Ph.D., has worked in analytical chemistry laboratories for over 25 years including petroleum, chemical, environmental, foodstuff, and life science research, and has a doctorate in analytical chemistry. He has published 15 research papers in peer reviewed journals and two books: Even Electron Mass Spectrometry with Biomolecule Applications (Wiley, 2008), and Proteomics of Biological Systems: Protein Phosphorylation Using Mass Spectrometry Techniques (Wiley, 2012). He is currently working for the Department of Homeland Security at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection New York Laboratory. He is a member of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) and the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Aihui MaHam, Ph.D., is an expert in nano–materials including the synthesis and characterization of chemical and biological nano–sensors. She is also an expert in the field of inorganic materials chemistry, and their characterization utilizing methodologies such as SEM, XRD, XRF and OES. She has published numerous research papers including a recent review entitled Protein–Based Nanomedicine Platforms for Drug Delivery (Small, 2009), which has been cited over 170 times by other researchers. She is currently working for the Department of Homeland Security at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection New York Laboratory.