Pharmaceutical Analysis - 9780443074455

This introductory text highlights the most important aspects of a wide range of techniques used in the control of the quality of pharmaceuticals. Written with the needs of the student in mind, this clear, practical guide includes self-testing sections with arithmetical examples and tests to help students brush up on their arithmetical skills in an applied context.

• Covers all of the most important analysis techniques in one book.
• Concentrates on the most important points with just the right level of detail.
• Summarizes the relevant theory but avoids becoming too esoteric.
• Features chapter summaries, key points and self-assessment boxes.
• Includes arithmetical calculations of results in the self-assessment exercises.

• Additional section on basic calculations in pharmaceutical analysis
• More detail on the capillary electrophoresis of proteins
• A discussion of some of the new types of HPLC column and on solvent selectivity in HPLC
• Additional material inserted on the control of the quality of analytical methods, mass spectrometry and high pressure liquid chromatography
• Additional self-assessment exercises