CHEM 14: Gas Chromatography

How to Find: Basic information on Gas Chromatography

Most of the basic chemistry books that would give general background information on Gas Chromatography (GC) are found in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library, 201 Davey Lab, at University Park.

There are numerous encyclopedias, in print and online, that contain basic information about Gas Chromatography (GC). Use the links below or search these titles in the CAT.

Try:

• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, or its online equivalent Access Science
• Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry in print or online
• Encyclopedia of Chromatography
• Encyclopedia of Analytical Science
• Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry
• Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia

 Search "gas chromatography" in collections of online reference books, such as:

• Gale Virtual Reference Library (entries on GC in the Gale Encyclopedia of Science and World of Forensic Science)
• Knovel (entries on GC in Dean's Analytical Chemistry Handbook, 2nd edition)
• NetLibrary (NOTE: to use NetLibrary off-campus, you must first create an account using these instructions) 

Search the CAT to find books on chromatography.  Instead of the default Keywords Anywhere search, do a Keyword search and change the drop down box to Topic (Title + Subject).  Try terms such as "gas chromatography" or "chromatographic analysis" or "instrumental analysis" to retrieve books like:

• Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 6th edition 
• Modern Practice of Gas Chromatography 
• Chromatography : concepts and contrasts, 2nd edition
• Introduction to Analytical Gas Chromatography : history, principles, and practice

Photocopies of chapters from several of the above mentioned books are available at Life Sciences Desk, 4 Paterno, University Park. 

Articles on the history of Gas Chromatography can be found searching databases such as:

• Web of Science
• SciFinder Scholar (this is a client based databasee that requires the user to download the software except on certain University Libraries' computers where it is already installed; see http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/pams/download.html for more details)

Most articles will be too detailed for general information, but background information can be found in some articles, available from various sources. Copies of the ones listed below are available at the Life Sciences Reference Desk, 4 Paterno, University Park. Examples include:

• Heines, V. 1971. Chromatography: a history of parallel development. ChemTech 1:280-285. [copy in Life Sciences and Annex]
• Ettre, LS. 1971. Development of Chromatography. Analytical Chemistry 43(14):20A-31A. [copy in Life Sciences, Annex and online]
• Bartle, KD. and Myers, P. 2002. History of gas chromatography. TrAC, Trends in Analytical Chemistry 21(9/10):547-557. [copy in Life Sciences and online]