Analytical Methods in Chemical Analysis: An Introduction

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Analytical Chemistry is important and applied, experimental field of science that employs different instruments, and methods for the collection, separation, identification, and quantification of various organic, inorganic, and biological molecules. This interdisciplinary branch is based not only on chemistry but also on other disciplines such as biology, physics, pharmaceutical, and many areas of technology. The book is organized into six sections and provides information pertinent to the important techniques, and methods employed in analytical chemistry. It covers the basic concepts of qualitative and quantitative analysis, spectrochemical methods of analysis, along with thermal- and electroanalytical methods. Qualitative analysis identifies analytes, while quantitative analysis determines the concentration or numerical amount of the molecules under study. This book also exposes students to the different laws of spectroscopy, and various electronic transitions that occur in the different regions of the electromagnetic spectra. The main objective of this work is to develop an understanding and make learners familiar with the basic analytical methods employed in the chemical analysis of various compounds. Preface Contents List of authors About the editors Abbreviations Section I: Analytical chemistry Chapter 1. Introduction to analytical chemistry Section II: Qualitative and quantitative aspects of analysis Chapter 2. Quantitative aspects of analysis Chapter 3. Data handling in qualitative and quantitative analysis Section III: Spectrochemical methods of analysis Chapter 4. UV–visible spectroscopy Chapter 5. Infrared spectroscopy Chapter 6. Flame atomic absorption and emission spectroscopy Section IV: Thermoanalytical Methods Chapter 7 Thermogravimetric (TG) and derivative thermogravimetric analysis (DTG) Chapter 8. Differential thermal analysis Section V: Electroanalytical Methods Chapter 9. pH Metry Chapter 10. Conductance Chapter 11 Electrochemistry Section VI: Separation methods and chromatography Chapter 12. Separation methods in analysis Chapter 13 Chromatographic methods Chapter 14. Chromatographic techniques Index