Modern Analytical Chemistry Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a very fine book for analytical courses. It's different than the others in that it emphasizes sampling, optimizing methods, analyzing & validating data, handling interferents, stats, experimental design, calibration and QA. In doing so it does not neglect the traditional topics like gravimetry, titrimetry, solvent extraction, equilibrium chemistry and so on.
It covers alot of material and would be sufficient to completely replace a separate instrumental analysis book for upper-level courses if supplemented properly.
It covers everything a beginning analyst should know with clear definitions, explanations and thoughtful examples. It has many end-of-chapter problems, suggested readings and references. Perhaps too many of these were included for a basic text. But on the other hand it does make it useful as a reference and for professors when designing courses.
The main problem with it is that many chapters are too long (e.g. the chapter on Evaluating Analytical Data) and these should have been broken into more manageable bits.
I also don't like how modern analytical textbooks include basic quantitative analysis and instrumental methods all-in-one. For 2 reasons: (1) the books become needlessly heavy and then binding becomes loose, pages fall out and (2) much material is never read since often a separate instrumental analysis book is used for upper-year courses. Quant books shouldn't try to be all things to all people - just focus on the basics, please. (An ideal, basic text is Exploring Chemical Analysis by Daniel C. Harris, ISBN 1429201479)
Too bad this book is OOP but you can get a revised and extended second edition in PDF at the author's website at Depauw U.
TOC:
1. Introduction
2. Basic Tools of Analytical Chemistry
3. The Language of Analytical Chemistry
4. Evaluating Analytical Data
5. Calibrations, Standardizations, and Blank Corrections
6. Equilibrium Chemistry
7. Obtaining and Preparing Samples for Analysis
8. Gravimetric Methods of Analysis
9. Titrimetric Methods of Analysis
10. Spectroscopic Methods of Analysis
11. Electrochemical Methods of Analysis
12. Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Methods
13. Kinetic Methods of Analysis
14. Developing a Standard Method
15. Quality Assurance
Appendices
Appendix 1A Single-Sided Normal Distribution
Appendix 1B t-Table
Appendix 1C F-Table
Appendix 1D Critical Values for Q-Test
Appendix 1E Random Number Table
Appendix 2 Recommended Reagents for Preparing Primary
Standards
Appendix 3A Solubility Products
Appendix 3B Acid Dissociation Constants
Appendix 3C Metal-Ligand Formation Constants
Appendix 3D Standard Reduction Potentials
Appendix 3E Selected Polarographic Half-Wave Potentials
Appendix 4 Balancing Redox Reactions
Appendix 5 Review of Chemical Kinetics
Appendix 6 Countercurrent Separations
Appendix 7 Answers to Selected Problems
Glossary
Index

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Modern Analytical Chemistry is a one-semester introductory text that meets the needs of all instructors. With coverage in both traditional topics and modern-day topics, instructors will have the flexibilty to customize their course into what they feel is necessary for their students to comprehend the concepts of analytical chemistry.

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