Handbook of Trace Analysis (eBook)

Irena Baranowska is a full professor at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland. For 20 years she has been Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at Chemical Faculty. She was vice-president of the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (9 years) and presently is a member of its Presidium. Irena Baranowska also was a member of a section in the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) in Warsaw and currently she is member of team of experts in National Science Centre in Krakow. She was awarded the Wiktor Kemula medal for outstanding scientific achievements in analytical chemistry. Her research focuses on analysis of organic compounds, especially pharmaceuticals and their metabolites, as well as endogenous compounds in clinical and environmental samples. She has supervised 19 PhD theses, is reviewer of 21 applications for the title of professor, 30 habilitation dissertations and 45 PhD theses.

Part I General issues.- Characteristic and specificity of trace analysis.- Quality evaluation of analytical results - errors classification, uncertainty estimation.- Calibration problems in trace analysis.- Certified reference materials in trace analysis.- Wet decomposition methods in inorganic trace elemental analysis.- Extraction methods in trace analysis.- Part II Application.- Trace analysis of selected organic compounds.- Analysis of drugs impurities.- Elemental analysis of food products.- Trace analysis for Metabolomics and metabonomics.- Determination of selected drugs and their metabolites in biological fluids.- Forensics I: Analytical methods in examination of forensic traces.- Forensics II: Micro traces in clinical and forensic toxicology.- Part III Special aspects.- Inorganic and bioinorganic speciation analysis - selected problems.- Quantification of platinum metals in biological and environmental samples.- Determination of volatile organic compounds by hyphenated chromatographic techniques.- Analysis of radionuclides.