A comprehensive study of analytical chemistry providing the basics of analytical chemistry and introductions to the laboratory

Analytical Chemistry: A Chemist and Laboratory Technician's Toolkit provides an introduction to the laboratory including safety and lab basics, and then moves through the fundamentals of analytical techniques such as spectroscopy and chromatography, most common lab instrumentation, and examples of laboratory programs such as laboratory information management systems (LIMS).

Also included is a teaching companion, reference, and toolkit program called ChemTech. The ChemTech program contains lesson exercises that stress and review topics covered in the book. Also included are useful calculators, an interactive periodic table, and a copy of all of the chapters of the book that can be opened and read on a computer or other electronic devices.

Analytical Chemistry features:

The basics of a chemistry lab including lab safety, glassware, and common instrumentation

Fundamentals of analytical techniques such as wet chemistry, instrumental analyses, spectroscopy, chromatography, FTIR, NMR, XRF, XRD, HPLC, GC-MS, Capillary Electrophoresis, and proteomics

ChemTech an interactive program that contains lesson exercises, useful calculators and an interactive periodic table

A very useful computer program LIMS is used to input data, track sample progress, record sample data such as company, type, and tests needed and so forth. A chapter on LIMS provides examples for logging in samples, inputting data, searching samples, approving samples, and printing reports and Certificates of Analysis (C of A).

The ChemTech program is a teaching tool designed to equip the chemist, the laboratory analyst, and the technician for a career in the analytical laboratory whether it is a clinical lab, an industrial, petrochemical, petroleum, environmental, college or university, or contract lab.

The book is a core reference for chemists, lab technicians, undergraduate students studying the sciences, an undergraduate analytical chemistry class, or a graduate analytical chemistry class. Also a vital tool for the method developer and researcher who are interested in areas of analytical chemistry not familiar with including academic groups, pharmaceutical companies, contract labs, environmental labs, petrochemical and polymer industry, and the health care industry.