Principles and practice of chromatography
This book, like cod liver oil and similar things that can do you good, has a rather unpalatable, old-fashioned style. Reading these densely-packed pages of text conveys an impression of listening to long intense lectures that ache with precise-sounding information, but need considerable reflection before their meaning is fully appreciated. Nevertheless, there are many effective sections in this ambitious attempt to write a modern one-volume treatise on analytical chromatography.
After a lengthy introduction, including definitions of abbreviations and acronyms (many of them unnecessarily invented by the author), and a discussion of the fundamentals of chromatography (100 pages), the book mostly consists of a coverage of the principles and practice of gas chromatography (104 pages), of liquid chromatography (170 pages) and of thin-layer chromatography (39 pages). The final section discusses applications of chromatography (80 pages) in a disappointingly sketchy way. Applications are also hinted at throughout the text, but these are usually discussed only in a vague one-sentence format.
Typographical errors are relatively limited in number (van Deemer instead of van Deemter, for example) but there is a greater proportion of errors in structural formulae. The book will be most useful as a support to applications-oriented treatises, and competes modestly with a considerable number of books that have a similar objective.
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