Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry

Induced Circular Dichroism
Surface Plasmon Resonance, Applications
Symmetry in Spectroscopy, Effects of
Tensor Representations
Calibration and Reference Systems (Regulatory Authorities)
Photoelectron Spectroscopy
X-Ray Spectroscopy, Theory
Zero Kinetic Energy Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Theory
X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Applications
Zero Kinetic Energy Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Applications
Magnetic Resonance, Historical Perspective
Contrast Mechanisms in MRI
Applications of Single Photon Imaging
Vibrational, Rotational and Raman Spectroscopy, Historical Perspective
IR Spectroscopy, Theory
Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy, Theory
Vibrational CD, Theory
High Resolution Gas Phase IR Spectroscopy Instrumentation
Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy, Instruments
Raman Spectrometers
Medical Science Applications of IR
Surface Studies by IR Spectroscopy
Chiroptical Spectroscopy, General Theory
Scattering Theory
Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Oriented Molecules and Anisotropic Systems
Photoelectron Spectrometers
X-Ray Absorption Spectrometers
X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometers
Chemical Exchange Effects in NMR
NMR Pulse Sequences
13C NMR, Methods
NMR Data Processing
Enantiomeric Purity Studied Using NMR
Heteronuclear NMR Applications (Sc

Dr. John C. Lindon is a professor and senior research investigator in the Division of Computational and Systems Medicine, part of the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London. He is also a founder, director of, and a consultant to Metabometrix Ltd, a company spun out of Imperial College to exploit the commercial possibilities of metabolic phenotyping. He is editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry and is on the editorial board of several journals. His major research interest is the use of NMR and other analytic methods coupled with multivariate statistics to study biofluids and tissues, a field now termed metabolic phenotyping.

George E. Tranter PhD MA BSc FRSC CChem CSci, has held senior R&D positions in both industry and academia (including at London University, Oxford University, the Wellcome Foundation and GlaxoWellcome). Until 2006 he led the Biospectroscopy Centre of Imperial College London and subsequently was Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. He is a recognized international authority in the field of molecular chirality and the spectroscopic/physicochemical features of drugs and biopharmaceuticals. He is named as inventor on drug patents, has published widely in the scientific literature, co-edited The Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy & Spectrometry (Academic Press), editor of the Separations and Analysis volume of Comprehensive Chirality (Elsevier), has been a member of scientific journal editorial boards (inc. CHIRALITY) and appeared on radio and television programmes in the UK and abroad. He is also a member of various scientific advisory panels and is a key partner in collaborations that bring together the biopharmaceutical industry, academia, and governmental institutions to investigate and validate biopharmaceutical structure and function. His particular interests are in the rational discovery of new therapeutics, with a passion for the role chirality

Reviews of the first edition: "There are many professionals . . . who would profit from this set in their libraries." --Choice

"Outstanding effort . . . the entries [are] authoritative, with many written by the best-known workers in the field. A good balance of both breadth and depth of coverage." --Applied Spectroscopy

"This opus of more than 3,300 pages covers an extraordinary range of topics relating to spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Editors Lindon, Tranter, and Koppenaal are specialists in biological NMR spectroscopy, chiral analytical methods, and atomic mass spectrometry, respectively. This edition represents a major update; though the majority of entries are reprinted verbatim from the first edition (CH, Dec'00, 38-2171; edited by Lindon, Tranter, and J. L. Holmes), the second edition features many new entries focused mainly on technologies that emerged in the last decade. These include proteomics and NMR studies on biofluids. Entries in the encyclopedia are classified as theory, methods/instrumentation, applications, historical perspectives, or overviews and are written in the style of a review journal article, ranging from about 5 to 15 pages. Clearly written and containing numerous figures (some in full color), tables, and extensive references, entries are mostly understandable to a typical working chemist, though a minority are quite specialized. The alphabetical arrangement is usable, but a subject-based arrangement might be more convenient for researching related topics.