CRC Handbook of Chromatography Two Volume Set

***This is a 2-volume Set***Volumes one and two of the "Handbook of Chromatography" represent over three years of intensive labor by the editors and members of the Editorial Advisory Board. When the publishers first suggested the production of a handbook for Chromatographic Data, it seemed to the editors to be just a simple compilation of R-F -Tables and retention times or volumes. However, a quick perusal of the literature of chromatography, accumulated during approximately 25 years of modern chromatography, revealed that the task would be a formidable one and could not be accomplished in one year, as was first estimated. Volume I of the Handbook contains over 549 tables of chromatographic data expressed in uniform terms of R-F values, retention times and retention volumes as well as other terms used in chromatography. Each table has literature citations which will refer to the primary and sometimes secondary sources. Over 12,000 compounds are cross0indexed to direct the reader to appropriate tables in this volume. Volume 2 of the Handbook has been designed to give the researcher, even the novice in chromatography, a working knowledge of the theory and practices of the various fields of chromatography-gas, liquid-column, paper, and thin-layer chromatography. Volume 2 also contains 2 useful sections. One is on detection reagents for paper and thin-layer chromatography, with an alphabetical index for chemical classes and "name" reagents. The other section describes selected methods for sample preparations.