Analytical methods are always advancing, especially when it comes to chemical instrumentation. Since the bulk of instrumentation is avoided in this text, and its focus is on foundational analytical chemistry concepts, its relevancy should hold true. All terminology is defined appropriately, with a chapter dedicated to some analytical terms the student may be unfamiliar with. This is important, as the student is generally unfamiliar with these terms, even though many are introduced previously in courses such as general chemistry.
The text doesn't assume the reader has previous knowledge of technical terminology and describes such things effectively. The text provides chapters on a general chemistry review of topics, analytical vocabulary, and statistical methods that provide a foundation consistently used throughout the text.
No issues here. This is probably the best part of the text, and what makes it ideal for an undergraduate analytical chemistry course. The text is broken down logically with each topic comprehensive yet succinct. The chapters build within themselves effectively, and are organized into "bite-sized" pieces that are, once again, perfect for undergraduate consumption. If I could change one thing I would put the kinetic review in the actual chapter as opposed to an appendix. While yes this SHOULD be a review from general chemistry in my experience students will not access information that isn't directly put into the chapter.
While I could certainly try and force them to go to back of the book, it just seems unnecessary to add a short appendix when the information could be put into the chapter and only add a couple of pages. Overall the organization in the text makes a lot of sense, and I prefer it to other analytical chemistry texts. This is especially true within each chapter where the flow of topics build upon one another exceptionally. It's possible the author wanted it to be right before the text transitions to methods of analysis, but I'd introduce it earlier in my class.
You could make a similar argument for developing a standard method, that it should be introduced earlier in the text maybe before chapters , however the way it is written relies on knowledge from the previous chapters for student clarity and understanding.
I really like the idea of the chapter, as well as the content, but wish it was written to be chapter 8 instead of This will make it difficult to get to in the curriculum and may delegate it to a second semester course such as Instrumental.
Figures, images, and text were all crisp and clear. No issues navigating throughout the text. There are some minor editing issues see chapter 4 in the table of contents but they don't seem to be related to any display problems.
A score of "3" is probably a bit harsh, as the text overall is well-written, but there were a number of noticeable grammatical errors in the text. These ranged from misspelled words to subject-verb disagreements or the use of singular versus plural nouns. Most are minor and don't take away from the text, such as " This is especially true if it's a common theme throughout the text.
Not applicable to this type of text, but references a number of different authors from varying backgrounds. I intend to use this textbook in my fall analytical chemistry course. I hope to submit a second review after that semester to give a more thorough account of its effectiveness, as a read-through without direct application in a course can only supply so much information in my opinion.
One final thing I wish the authors would change is the front cover! My students thought the word art on the front was, in their words, hilarious. Just a thought! Analytical Chemistry 2. In fact, it says on page 8: "Modern methods for qualitative analysis rely on Comprehensiveness rating: 3 see less.
In fact, it says on page 8: "Modern methods for qualitative analysis rely on instrumental techniques, such as infrared IR spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry MS. Because these qualitative applications are covered adequately elsewhere in the undergraduate curriculum, they receive no further consideration in this text.
If not or perhaps if your analytical class had a large number of transfers from a 2-year college where they did not have some of these, and you wished to have these as part of your references you will need to select another book or supplement.
In my case, MS was very important so my rating is lower - in truth, probably 3. If this was not necessary for you, then probably a 4 or even a 5 would be appropriate.
It is relevant. It does a good job with the fundamental theory behind most of the analytical techniques and instrumentation, and these are timeless. It does cover the details of applications to the specific historical development of instruments and how newer instruments and techniques addressed issues with older approaches. As some areas will develop faster than others, it might be necessary to supplement with articles if a particular cutting edge approach in HP-LC was desired, for instance.
Yes, very easy to read. Students should be able to read it and learn from it. Yes, vocabulary words are defined, and there is no unexplained jargon. Yes, there is a high degree of internal consistency. No problems noted, such as when one chapter seems to take after one approach and different chapter, another, due to differences in the way each sub-field handles a certain concept.
Maybe too much foreshadowing? For example, chapter 12A gives an overview of separations, and 12A4 gives an intro to electrophoresis. But once you get used to it, it is not a problem. Yes the topics are organized in an appropriate manner so that one topic builds off of the next. For example chromatography chapter 12 follows and builds off of liquid-liquid extractions chapter 7.
Some chapters could be moved around as desired, but his order makes sense. Everything displayed fine, even if I resized the window.
I didn't as I assume my students will try to read this on my cellphone or smartwatch, and can make no guarantees about that.
Everything looked good to me. No noticeable errors, and certainly none that impacted understanding. The text is culturally neutral. The text covers chemistry and chemical techniques. Most of the end of chapter questions deal strictly with analysis of data. Some of these are written in such a way to make it a-cultural not "Jose wishes to monitor" but "You have been asked to monitor". Many of these questions directly reference literature.
I suppose someone could argue that the literature is dominated by dead White European Males and so does not make adequate use of inclusive examples, and in that light I will give it a 4, but I prefer his approach and think it is far more appropriate.
I think the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. If I was asked to rate the book overall, I'd go a solid 4. The science is good, the writing is good, the graphics are good, the sample questions are good, and probably for most analytical chemistry classes, the content is appropriate because they cover the missing content IR, MS, etc. I do wish that some materials PowerPoints, test bank, etc. The text includes all the relevant topics that are typically included in Introductory Analytical course work.
Topics are discussed in enough detail to fill out the course without needing to add in too many additional sources. As a plus, an As a plus, an extensive and useful list of Additional Resources were provided at the end of the book, arranged by chapter and topic. The text is relatively easy to navigate using either the Brief Table of Contents and the Detailed Table of Contents both of which is readily accessible from every other page using hyperlinks.
While, no glossary or Index is provided, one could find easily specific terms using the Find function in Acrobat or other PDF reader.
I did not find any factual mistakes in the sections that i studied, however a few typos were present and scattered throughout the text. For the classic part of the textbook there were few problems and modern recommendations by IUPAC and other governing bodies were implemented throughout. However, some of the technique descriptions could be updated. Such additions can easily be made though, or information can be supplemented by the instructor. I found this book to be much more approachable and it made for a far more engaging read than our current textbook Skoog.
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