This book is intended as a tool for undergraduate students, building upon the first edition of Problems of Instrumental Analytical Chemistry with new, updated detailed content.
As European Universities converged to the EEES Bologna space, the time available for theoretical and practical lessons at the classroom has reduced dramatically. The fundamental principles and basic theory of Analytical Chemistry are covered by many wonderful textbooks, but the numerical part is not. Although it is true that many of them present some worked examples, the students need more support. Indeed, many teachers have observed a serious decline in the calculation capabilities of their students.
This book is intended to help undergraduate students of Instrumental Analytical Chemistry develop strategies to generate information from experimental results in an efficient and reliable way. The exercises will provide standard protocols that students can follow to address the most common calculation steps required in laboratory daily work. It is assumed that they will use the hands-on guide after the basic principles of the analytical techniques were presented in their classes. Easy-to-follow diagrams are included to facilitate understanding of the calculations and avoid common errors.
As a novelty, QR codes are inserted into the text to offer additional extra information and/or links to reputed websites with additional explanations and/or computer animations. This new feature is a distinctive one, very rare in scientific or teaching-oriented books.
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Contents:
- Fundamental Calculations in Analytical Chemistry
- Basic Data Analysis
- UV-Vis Spectrometry
- Infrared Spectrometry
- Atomic Spectrometry
- Chromatography
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometries
- Electroanalysis
Readership: Academia (university); undergraduates; graduates requiring additional training; teachers willing to find materials to prepare their lessons; courses on analytical chemistry; general chemistry, separation techniques, spectrometric techniques, industrial chemistry.
JM Andrade-Garda, Fields of expertise: Quality Control and Chemometrics. In Chemometrics, main interests are in multivariate regression and pattern recognition methods (either, unsupervised and supervised). In the Atomic Spectrometry arena, he applied formal optimisation techniques to optimize analytical protocols and applied multivariate regression tools to cope with spectral and chemical interferences in ETAAS (traditional sample introduction and slurry-based). In the infrared spectrometry arena he developed analytical methods for the petrochemical field, currently he is focused on the study of microplastics.
He is Full Professor at the University of A Coruña since 2011. He was in charge of teaching different subjects on Analytical Chemistry since 1995. He has published around 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Coauthored 12 chapters of books and edited two editions of a book with the RSC and one with World Scientific.
A Carlosena-Zubieta is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of A Coruña. She currently works on atomic spectrometry, particularly quantification of trace metals in samples of environmental interest. She published many papers on slurry-sampling ETAAS. There, robust analytical protocols were developed based on multivariate chemometric optimization methods (namely, experimental design and simplex optimization). She was in charge of teaching different subjects in the Analytical Chemistry field since 1994. She published around 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Coauthored 5 chapters of books, including two editions of a RSC book on atomic spectrometry and one with World Scientific.
M Gestal-Pose, MS (2001) and PhD (2009) in Computer Science, was born in A Coruña, Spain, in 1977. He is currently an assistant professor in the Computer Science Faculty, University of A Coruña, and a member of the Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptative Systems research laboratory. His research interests are focused on evolutionary computation (mainly genetic algorithms), artificial neural networks and their interaction to perform variable selection. He has participated in several research projects, published papers in many international journals and edited and authored several books.
MP Gómez-Carracedo Researcher at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of A Coruña. She got her PhD in 2005, special award. Her research areas cover characterization of refinery products by infrared spectrometry and multivariate regression modelling, particularly partial least squares and artificial neural networks. She also works on variable selection by genetic algorithms. She taught Analytical Chemistry issues at the Universities of Vigo and A Coruña. She published around 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Coauthored 10 chapters of books, including two editions of a RSC book on atomic spectrometry and one with World Scientific.
MA Maestro-Saavedra, fields of expertise: Organic Synthesis and Structural Elucidation. In Organic Synthesis, main interests are preparation of vitamin D metabolites and analogs and isotopically labeled compounds. In the Structural Elucidation field, he set up the Scientific Services of University of A Coruña (where he was the Manager of the Services, 1993–2004) where he applied spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques (NMR, MS, UV, single crystal XRD), to natural products and synthetic intermediates. He is Associate Professor at the University of A Coruña since 1996. He was in charge of teaching different subjects on Organic Chemistry and Structural Elucidation since 1996. He has published around 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and collaborated in the edition of a book with World Scientific.
MC Prieto-Blanco, Fields of expertise: Her research is focused on developing analytical methods for determining organic compounds in the environment (emerging and persistent pollutants and surfactants), using liquid chromatography in combination with different treatment systems. She is focused on environmental and industrial analyses of those compounds. Currently, she works in automated sample preparation techniques coupled to miniaturized chromatographic systems (CapLC), and the development of in-situ analysis devices for environmental analysis and food analysis.
She was a quality control laboratory manager in the surfactants industry (1990s–2004). Since 2004 she is an assistant professor at the University of A Coruña and was in charge of teaching different subjects in the Analytical Chemistry field. She published around 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and coauthored 2 chapters of books, and one with World Scientific.
RM Soto-Ferreiro is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of A Coruña, where was in charge of different subjects in Analytical Chemistry. She has been working on atomic spectroscopy since 1989. In 1994 she obtained her PhD, where she developed new analytical procedures to determine butyltin compounds in marine waters by HPLC-ETAAS. Her present interests are focused on sample treatment procedures for metal determination in petroleum products, development of green analytical methods using emulsions and pressurized liquid extraction. She also works with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). She published around 30 papers. Coauthored a chapter of a RSC book on atomic spectrometry and one with World Scientific.
J Terán-Baamonde (PhD, 2017; European mention and PhD award) is a Postdoc Research Associate in Analytical Chemistry at the University of A Coruña. His main interests are the development of new analytical strategies to study environmental and toxicological effects caused by metals (e.g. in vitro bioaccessibility studies). He analyzed a variety of samples: environmental, agri-food, pharmacological, cosmetics, and technical materials, such as polymers, and their chemical additives. He worked with atomic spectrometry (AAS and ICP), either alone or hyphenated (GC-ICP/MS and HPLC-ICP/MS); laser ablation (LA), and mercury analyzers. He also worked on quality management systems and their accreditation and enjoyed research stays abroad. At present he works on the characterization and quantification of nanoparticles by single particle-ICP/MS and Asymmetrical Flow Field Flow Fractionation with MALS, DLS, IR and UV detectors.
