Preface

There is no single book on complete pharmaceutical analysis. This book is written keeping this in mind. I am sure that this book will give information about the physical, chemical, and instrumental analysis. It also provides information about the regulatory affairs and statistics which are helpful in the industry. It provides information about the special and miscellaneous methods of the analysis. This book is best suited for the academic, research, and reference needs for the students who have pharmaceutical analysis as a subject.

This book consists of different chapters which provide detailed information regarding these topics.

The Physical Analytical Methods chapter gives information on the determination of physical properties through different analytical methods.

The Titrimetric Methods chapter helps in the acquiring knowledge about the different volumetric methods and their indicators.

The Electroanalytical Methods chapter provides information about the electroanalytical properties of the compounds and the different analytical methods such as potentiometry, conductometry, voltammetry, polarography and coulometry, etc.

The Spectroanalytical Methods chapter provides information regarding the different instrumental methods based on absorption, emission, and scattering of the radiation.

The Chromatographic Methods chapter provides information regarding the separation, identification and quantification of the compounds based on the adsorption and partition principles.

The Reagents chapter provides information about the different reagents used in the determination of the compounds by visual methods.

The Analysis of Functional Groups chapter provides information regarding the analysis of the functional group properties by the different methods.

The Analysis of Pharmaceutical Agents chapter provides information regarding the analytical methods available for the estimation of the different classes of drugs used as the therapeutic agents.

The Specific Methods chapter provides information about radiometric analyses, thermal analyses, ELISAs and bioassays and analysis of water.

The Miscellaneous Methods chapter provides information about the analysis of food components such as proteins, carbohydrates and lipids by the chemical and instrumental methods and analysis of the packing materials.

The Quality Assurance and Quality Control chapter provides information about the quality control and validation of the products.

At the end of every chapter a set of questions are provided to complement the text of each chapter and to test the students’ grasping skills and analyzing capacity. This text book is a mix of different topics in pharmaceutical analysis, which are not available in one single book.

At the end of this book about 650 multiple-choice questions are available for the assessment of the students and for the preparation for competitive exams.

In this book, most of the chapters are explained in detail and few are explained in brief which satisfies the syllabus of the different universities.

I am sure that this book will serve all intended purposes and I wish the very best to all the students who have chosen this book for their academic purposes.