Molecular fluorescence spectroscopy is a rapidly-evolving analytical technique with important applications in pharmaceutical and environmental analysis. This easily-accessible guide provides chemical analysts and technicians with the practical tools they need to work effectively in the field.

Over the past three decades, luminescence spectroscopy has transcended its origins as a curiosity in the physical laboratory to become a widely used and respected staple of the analytical chemist's instrumentation arsenal. Fluorescence, chemiluminescence, and phosphorescence spectroscopies are now routinely applied to such real analytical problems as the quantitaion, qualitative identification, and structural characterization of organic and inorganic compounds and even of cellular structures. And the list of recent advances in analytical applications of luminescence spectroscopy keeps...