LC/MS: A Practical User's Guide [Hardcover]

Marvin McMaster (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471655317 | ISBN-13: 978-0471655312 | Publication Date: August 10, 2005

A practical guide to using and maintaining an LC/MS system

The combination of liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS) has become the laboratory tool of choice for a broad range of industries that require the separation, analysis, and purification of mixtures of organic compounds.

LC/MS: A Practical User's Guide provides LC/MS users with an easy-to-use, hands-on reference that focuses on the practical applications of LC/MS and introduces the equipment and techniques needed to use LC/MS successfully. Following a thorough explanation of the basic components and operation of the LC/MS system, the author presents empirical methods for optimizing the techniques, maintaining the instrumentation, and choosing the appropriate MS or LC/MS analyzer for any given problem.

LC/MS covers everything users need to know about:

• The latest equipment, including quadrupole, time-of-flight, and ion trap analyzers
• Cutting-edge processes, such as preparing HPLC mobile phases and samples; handling and maintaining a wide variety of silica, zirconium, and polymeric separation columns; interpreting and quantifying mass spectral data; and using MS interfaces
• Current and future applications in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries, biotechnology, clinical research, environmental studies, and forensics

An accompanying PowerPoint® slide-set on CD-ROM provides vital teaching tools for instructors and new equipment operators. Abundantly illustrated and easily accessible, the text is designed to help students and practitioners acquire optimum proficiency in this powerful and rapidly advancing analytical application.

Editorial Reviews

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"In LC/MS: A Practical User's Guide, the author sets out to introduce LC/MS and provide some practical information for using it ... The present offering seeks to provide a practical resource for LC/MS in 150 pages ... The HPLC chapters will serve the beginning technician
Well." (J Am Soc Mass Spectrom, 2011)

 

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A practical guide to using and maintaining an LC/MS system

The combination of liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS) has become the laboratory tool of choice for a broad range of industries that require the separation, analysis, and purification of mixtures of organic compounds.

LC/MS: A Practical User's Guide provides LC/MS users with an easy-to-use, hands-on reference that focuses on the practical applications of LC/MS and introduces the equipment and techniques needed to use LC/MS successfully. Following a thorough explanation of the basic components and operation of the LC/MS system, the author presents empirical methods for optimizing the techniques, maintaining the instrumentation, and choosing the appropriate MS or LC/MS analyzer for any given problem.

LC/MS covers everything users need to know about:

• The latest equipment, including quadrupole, time-of-flight, and ion trap analyzers
• Cutting-edge processes, such as preparing HPLC mobile phases and samples; handling and maintaining a wide variety of silica, zirconium, and polymeric separation columns; interpreting and quantifying mass spectral data; and using MS interfaces
• Current and future applications in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries, biotechnology, clinical research, environmental studies, and forensics

An accompanying PowerPoint® slide-set on CD-ROM provides vital teaching tools for instructors and new equipment operators. Abundantly illustrated and easily accessible, the text is designed to help students and practitioners acquire optimum proficiency in this powerful and rapidly advancing analytical application.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience (August 10, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471655317
• ISBN-13: 978-0471655312
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.6 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #39 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Chemistry > Analytic

More About the Author

Dr. Marvin McMaster is a full-time writer, adjunct professor of Chemistry at the U. Missouri-St. Louis teaching seminars and short extension course on laboratory instruments, selling, and computers, and teaches Bible study at his local Methodist church.

He currently works as a consultant from the St.Louis area, teaches at St. Andrew UMC in Florissant, MIssouri, and is extending his writing into World War II biography, religious fiction and non-fiction. and science fiction/fantasy after having accidentally encountered the royal wishing pig, Aloysius.

His latest published work "Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments" is dual purposed. It provides a guide to the purchasing process by a knowledgeable sales specialist unconnected to manufacturers. It also represents the first systematic guide to the selling profession by a successful Win-Win salesman who has made a career out of making customer's successful with their instruments.

TANSTAAFL applies to selling as well as to life. "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch!" A salesman who fails to make his customers successful with his products is going to starve to death because he never gets any repeat business. Judge Ziglar was right when he said, "Timid Salesmen Have Skinny Kids." So do salesman who do not support and make their customer successful.

Dr. McMaster has a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the U. Nebraska-Lincoln, laboratory experience as a synthetic and process chemist with DuPont, Kraft Foods, Ciba-Geigy and biochemical/medical postdoctoral experience at Florida State U., U. Colorado Med. School, and U. Michigan. For 25 years he sold laboratory instruments and computer interfaces as a technical sales representative for Waters Associates, LDC, Beckman Instruments, Pharmacia/LKB, and Teknivent. He has also worked as a networking and support technician for MacIntosh computer at Washington U. Medical School in St. Louis.

He began teaching 2-day in-field HPLC courses for Beckman and added evening extensions courses at UMSL and wrote his first book "HPLC: A Practical User's Guide" when he was unable to find a useable textbook. Laboratory computers. GC/MS and LC/MS courses and books were added as this expertise emerged from his selling career.

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4.0 out of 5 stars a very good start point, April 23, 2006

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This review is from: LC/MS: A Practical User's Guide (Hardcover)

A good introduction. But not for specialist. Some practical tips are useful.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference book, May 22, 2009

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This review is from: LC/MS: A Practical User's Guide (Hardcover)

This is a very useful reference guide for both the beginner and the advanced. It's surprising detail for such a small book is amazing. It covers the most recent and up-to-date advances in LC as well as MS analyzers along with industry research applications to name a few. 5/5 great book.

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