Provides a cross section of research in the US from academics, industry and government laboratories, featuring contributions in several areas of analytical chemistry (separation, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, electro-chemistry, structure determination, etc.). Active researchers who are well established in their area, as well as younger up-and-coming researchers, were solicited in order to present a chronological view of research in analytical chemistry in the United States. Both large and small universities are represented.

(partial) An interview with Piet Kolthoff, P W Carr. History of analytical chemistry in the USA, H A Laitinen. Teaching of analytical chemistry in the US, R W Murray. Molecular modelling of structural changes which affect chromatographic selectivity in chiral separations, M G Still &
L B Roger
. An air-carrier continuous analysis system, K Petersen &
P K Dasgu
ta. Some industrial developments and applications of multidimensional techniques, W B Crummett et al. Ion transport properties of cyclic and acyclic neutral carrier-containing membranes, M L Iglehart et al. Theoretical and experimental studies of electrostatic effects in reversed-phase liquid chromatography, S G Weber. Optimization of automatically generated rules for predicting the presence and absence of substructures from MS and MS/MS data, P T Palmer et al. Solid state chemical ionization for characterization of organic compounds by laser mass spectrometry, K Balasanmugam et al.