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BOOKS Relaxation in Liquids" by H. Weingàrtner; Chapter 5, "Solid State NMR" by R. Dupree; Chapter 6, "Multiple Pulse NMR" by D. L. Turner; Chapter 7, "Natural Macromolecules" by D. B. Davies; Chapter 8, "Synthetic Macromolecules" by A. Bunn; Chapter 9, "Conformational Analysis" by A. Gryff-Keller and P. Szczecinski; Chapter 10, "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Living Systems" by P. G. Morris; Chapter 11, "Oriented Molecules" by C. L. Kheterepal, B. S. Arun Kumar, and S. Raghothama; and Chapter 12, "Heterogeneous Systems" by T. K. Halstead. The reviews of the cited literature are necessarily brief because of the vastness of the field. Even at that, these volumes have increased steadily in size, from 343 pages for Vol. 1 to 484 pages for the present volume—a reflection of the growth of the literature. The reviews are almost entirely noncritical; the quality and significance of the reported work usually do not come through, although of course all readers know that such variability does exist. Some of the chapters are mainly unadorned catalogues of the literature while others (clearly preferable) provide some background and indication of trends and discrepancies. This volume and its predecessors provide an extremely useful service to workers in this field and can save many hours of library work. In the immediate area of the researcher's interest, however, and especially in regard to the most recent developments, this is not a royal road. One must do the searching oneself, although with modern computer methods this process is not as onerous as it once was. The excessive price of this book will limit its purchase to libraries rather than individuals.
Advances in Chromatography, Vol. 28.
J. Calvin Giddings, Eli Grushka, and Phyllis Brown, Eds. xviii + 371 pp. Marcel Dekker, 270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016.1989. $100 Reviewed by Merle Evenson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1300 University Ave., Madison, WI53706 This volume continues the long tradition of this series as a well-respected compendium of literature devoted to chromatography. Most of the volumes contain five to eight chapters. The chapters usually may be classified as brief reviews, as theoretical aspects of chromatography, or as established applications of chromatography. Volume 28 is so organized.
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Chapters that might be considered applied in this volume are entitled "HPLC of Penicillin Antibiotics" and "Gas Chromatographic Analysis of Plasma Lipids." Chapters that could be classified as reviews are entitled "The Use of Dynamically Modified Silica in HPLC as an Alternate to Chemically Bonded Materials," "Column Switching in Gas Chromatography," "The Use of Mixed Stationary Phases in Gas Chromatography," and "Online Small Bore Chromatography for Neurochemical Analysis in the Brain." The theoretical chapter in this volume is "Theoretical Aspects of Quantitative Affinity Chromatography: An Overview." I examined the timeliness of the references by using a five-year cutoff. In two of the chapters about 50% of the references cited were less than five years old. In another two chapters 40% of the references were less than five years old, and in two other chapters 30% of the references were less than five years old. In one chapter 20% of the citations were less than five years old, and in another chapter only 10% of the references were less than five years old. The review-type articles are those that have mostly older literature citations. However, none of the chapters suffer from being out of date even though the percentage of references older than five years is high in many of the chapters. In the applied chapters, my preference is to include much more information and detail on the sample preparations prior to chromatographic analysis. I prefer chapters that put more emphasis on accuracy and precision of the analyses (including sample preparation) so readers can make quantitative decisions about the various chromatographic methods. There are more typographical and editing errors than usual in a book of this type. I found three journal article references where the date of publication was missing. In the contents to other volumes, I found five misspelled words in 10 pages. There are several places in the book where an author's surname is misspelled at the end of a chapter. However, these errors do not significantly detract from the quality of the book. I believe this book's greatest value is in the summaries it presents on the seven different subjects. The chapters are written for the serious and experienced chromatographer. Libraries should have several copies of this volume, and researchers working directly in one of these chromatography fields may want to purchase a personal copy so that they may refer to the literature cited in each area.
