Volume 8: Hyphenated Methods

Starting with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and continuing through GCxGC-MS, LC-MSn, and LC-NMR-MS, hyphenated methods have revolutionized chemical analysis. This volume covers that revolution in two parts. The first (Chapters 1-4) describes principles, instrumentation, and technology, and the second (Chapters 5-10) organizes major application areas in GC-MS and LC-MS.

After a general introduction (Chapter 1), attention is paid to principles and instrumentation of GC-MS (Chapter 2) and LC-MS (Chapter 3). Other hyphenated...

This volume details the principles and instrumentation of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (CG-MS), and outlines industrial, environmental, pharmaceutical, clinical, toxicological, forensic and food-related applications, revealing findings from the laboratories of 40 contributing scientists around the world using GC-MS in practice. It describes upstream and downstream applications of GC-MS in the petroleum industry and identifies chlorinated compounds in the environment with quadrupole ion-trap technology and high-resolution sector instruments.

Illustrates how LC-MS works, how to interpret results, and why it is useful across many disciplines Focuses on principles, technologies, applications, and analytical strategies in a single volume Dedicates more than two-thirds of the text to the impact of LC-MS on an ever-expanding list of applications Introduces customized strategies for the most important application areas of LC-MS Contains concise introductions and up-to-date references for further study in each chapter A constructive evaluation of the most significant developments in liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and its...