Updated and expanded, the classic guide to GC/MS helps chromatographers quickly learn to use this technique for analyzing and identifying compounds. After explaining the fundamentals, it discusses optimizing, tuning, using, and maintaining GC/MS equipment; explores advances in miniaturized and field-portable GC/MS systems and microfluidic components; and more. Complete with a CD-ROM, it covers applications in the environmental laboratory and in forensics, toxicology, and space science. This is the premier resource for professionals in those fields and for students.

GC / MS: A Practical User's Guide

Science & Math

McMaster, Marvin C.

Chemistry

Wiley-Interscience

A time-tested, systematic approach to the buying and selling of complex research instruments Searching for the best laboratory instruments and systems can be a daunting and expensive task. A poorly selected instrument can dramatically affect results produced and indirectly affect research papers, the quality of student training, and an investigator's chances for advancement. Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments offers the valuable insights of an analytical chemist and consultant with over four decades of experience in locating instruments based upon both need and price. It helps all decision makers find the best equipment, service, and support while avoiding the brand-loyalty bias of sales representatives so you can fully meet your laboratory's requirements. The first section of the book guides buyers through the hurdles of funding, purchasing, and acquiring best-fit instruments at the least-expensive price. It explains how to find vendors that support their customers with both knowledgeable service and application support. Also offered is guidance on adapting your existing instruments to new applications, integrating new equipment, and what to do with instruments that can no longer serve in research mode. The second section explains the sales process in detail. This is provided both as a warning against manipulative sales reps and as a guide to making the sale a win-win process for you and your vendor. It also shows you how to select a knowledgeable technical guru to help determine the exact system configuration you need and where to find the best price for it. Added bonuses are summary figures of buying sequence and sales tools and an appendix containing frequently asked questions and memory aids. Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments is for people directly involved in selecting and buying instruments for operational laboratories, from the principle investigator to the person actually delegated with investigating and selecting the system to be acquired. Sales representatives; laboratory managers; universities; pharmaceutical, biotech, and forensic research firms; corporate laboratories; graduate and postdoctoral students; and principle investigators will not want to be without this indispensible guide.

Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments: A Practical Consulting Guide

wiley

HPLC: A Practical User's Guide is essential for chromatographers needing a proven training manual for setting up and running an HPLC system, for optimizing and cleaning columns and separations, and for obtaining separations and maximizing information from their system. Relying upon 15 years of laboratory and field troubleshooting experience, the author explains the basic techniques and shows how to use them to optimize separations. Proven methods are provided for starting up and maintaining HPLC systems, cleaning and troubleshooting column to the system problems, and systematic column treatment and methods development, both manual and automated. Coverage includes preparative HPLC, Diode Array, UV detectors, recent advances in HPLC/mass spectrometry, and a discussion of hardware configurations and interfacing to computers and data acquisition devices. A guide to separations, a glossary of terms, and a programmed self-learning guide are also included.

Hplc: A Practical User's Guide

Vch Pub

A unique practical guide to building, using, and maintaining a complete GC/MS system. Though gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) is one of the most effective and popular methods of separating, identifying, and quantifying compounds in complex mixtures, there have been no comprehensive handbooks to date that clearly explain the setup and maintenance of a functional GC/MS system. Now Marvin and Christopher McMaster have created the hands-on resource that researchers and students need to get their own systems up and running quickly. Covering everything from necessary components to tuning, troubleshooting, and processing data, it allows even those with little prior knowledge of GC/MS to perform their own analyses and gather the data they require. GC/MS: A Practical User's Guide contains: * Full coverage of vital equipment, including the function, costs, and advantages of both desktop and floor-standing systems * A walkthrough of a basic GC/MS analysis and an examination of key methods of structural data interpretation * Extensive information on GC/MS system optimization * An exploration of the various research and environmental uses of GC/MS systems * An extended section on liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry to enhance comprehension of the gas method. For organic, analytical, clinical, environmental, and forensic chemists in all types of laboratories-and for students in all of these specialties -this book will be an invaluable companion for years to come.

GC/MS: A Practical User's Guide

McMaster, Christopher

Wiley-VCH

A practical guide to using and maintaining an LC/MS system The combination of liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS) has become the laboratory tool of choice for a broad range of industries that require the separation, analysis, and purification of mixtures of organic compounds. LC/MS: A Practical User's Guide provides LC/MS users with an easy-to-use, hands-on reference that focuses on the practical applications of LC/MS and introduces the equipment and techniques needed to use LC/MS successfully. Following a thorough explanation of the basic components and operation of the LC/MS system, the author presents empirical methods for optimizing the techniques, maintaining the instrumentation, and choosing the appropriate MS or LC/MS analyzer for any given problem. LC/MS covers everything users need to know about: 
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<li>The latest equipment, including quadrupole, time-of-flight, and ion trap analyzers</li> <li>Cutting-edge processes, such as preparing HPLC mobile phases and samples; handling and maintaining a wide variety of silica, zirconium, and polymeric separation columns; interpreting and quantifying mass spectral data; and using MS interfaces</li> <li>Current and future applications in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries, biotechnology, clinical research, environmental studies, and forensics</li> </ul> An accompanying PowerPoint® slide-set on CD-ROM provides vital teaching tools for instructors and new equipment operators. Abundantly illustrated and easily accessible, the text is designed to help students and practitioners acquire optimum proficiency in this powerful and rapidly advancing analytical application.

LC/MS: A Practical User's Guide

This Second Edition of the classic handbook details how to set up an HPLC system that capitalizes on the latest innovations. It covers new techniques in high-temperature, micro-flow, and ultra-fast chromatography, the linking of an HPLC to a mass spectrometer, and more. Complete with a CD-ROM and appendices, this guide has everything chromatographers need to know to confidently separate, identify, purify, and quantify compounds. 
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

HPLC: A Practical User's Guide

HPLC: A Practical User's Guide is essential for chromatographers needing a proven training manual for setting up and running an HPLC system, for optimizing and cleaning columns and separations, and for obtaining separations and maximizing information from their system. Relying upon 15 years of laboratory and field troubleshooting experience, the author explains the basic techniques and shows how to use them to optimize separations. Proven methods are provided for starting up and maintaining HPLC systems, cleaning and troubleshooting column to the system problems, and systematic column treatment and methods development, both manual and automated. Coverage includes preparative HPLC, Diode Array, UV detectors, recent advances in HPLC/mass spectrometry, and a discussion of hardware configurations and interfacing to computers and data acquisition devices. A guide to separations, a glossary of terms, and a programmed self-learning guide are also included.

HPLC, a practical user's guide

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