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#### **Preface XI**


S. A. Akinyemi, W. M. Gitari, A. Akinlua and L. F. Petrik


Preface

Chemistry.

The book, Analytical Chemistry, deals with some of the more important areas of the title's subject matter, which we hope will enable our readers to better appreciate just some of the numerous topics of importance in Analytical Chemistry today. The topics being covered herein deal with the following topics: 1) Principal Component Analysis: The Basic Building Block of Chemometrics; 2) Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Subbituminous Coal; 3) Kinetic Methods of Analysis with Potentiometric and Spectrophotometric Detectors; 4) Analytical Chemistry - Today and Tomorrow, Biochemical and Chemical Information, Basic Standards, Analytical Properties and Challenges; 5) Analytical Method Validation in Biotechnology Today, Method Validation, ICH/FDA Requirements, and Related Topics; and 6) Peptide and Amino Acid Separations and Identification - Chromatography, Spectrometry and Other Detection Methods. These topics are up-to-date, thoroughly referenced and literature cited to the present time, and truly review the major and most important topics and areas in each of these subjects. They should find widespread acceptance and studious involvement on the part of many readers interested in such generally important areas of Analytical Chemistry today. Analytical Chemistry has come to assume a tremendously important part of many, if not most, research areas in chemistry, biochemistry, biomedicine, medical science, proteomics, peptidomics, metabolomics, protein/peptide analysis, forensic science, and innumerable other areas of current, scientific research and development in modern times. As such, it behooves all those involved in these and other research and development areas to keep themselves up-todate and current in the very latest developments in these and other areas of Analytical

**Ira S. Krull**

Boston, USA

Chemistry and Chemical Biology,

Northeastern University,
