Current Practice of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
W.M.A. Niessen
Vol 86 in the Series Chromatographic Science series. Marcel Dekker, New York (2001). ISBN 0-8247-0473-8
Reviewed by A.I. Mallet, University of Greenwich, UK
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Current Practice of Gas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryW.M.A. Niessen Vol 86 in the Series Chromatographic Science series. Marcel Dekker, New York (2001). ISBN 0-8247-0473-8 Reviewed by A.I. Mallet, University of Greenwich, UK |
The Editor, states in his introduction that this is a volume which will provide a perspective on how GC-MS is used by researchers. It contains 20 contributions from a variety of laboratories and is necessarily therefore varied in its quality, style and depth of exposition. An initial description of basic GC-MS instrumentation is followed by an account of a specialist and uncommon, ionisation technique, Surface Ionisation. The rest of the book contains descriptions of applications taken from environmental and industrial areas, biomedical applications, forensic and food-related applications. Most of these are well written and informative. There are good accounts of modern GC-MS practice in the petroleum industry and on sample preparation in the liquid phase, prior to gas chromatographic introduction. More might have been written on tandem mass spectrometric analysis and more examples of the use of high speed chromatography with time-of-flight MS would have helped to bring the accounts up to date.
If this volume is meant to be a handbook for the novice in GC-MS then it is too specialised for this purpose; if it is to serve as an introduction to one of the specialist application areas, then a better source of information would be from appropriate well-refereed Journals and from face-to-face advice. It is convenient to have references to the 18 topics covered in a single volume, but this is an expensive way to source information.
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