The present book is part of series published on Spectrophotometric methods for determination of various transition metals. Since vanadium chromium and manganese are most important industrial metals their analysis using simple and inexpensive methods is of utmost importance. The present book is an important milestone in this area. Most of the methods described are simple yet well evidenced developed by the experts of the area. The book is written in do it yourself style in lucid and comprehensive way so that analyst with no prior expertise can use it. Academia, industry and Pharma sector analyst will be true beneficiaries of this book.

Prof. A.K. Goswami is a known name in analytical chemistry and spectrophotometric determination of various transition metals. He has a teaching experience worth 33 years with research on various aspects of metal complexes from reagent development to application. He has published 10 reviews on spectrophotometric determination of transition metals, about 130 research papers and ten books. Not to mention 30 Ph.D. students have done their doctoral thesis under his supervision. He has been writing books on all aspects of application of metal complexes, medicinal chemistry, theoretical drug design to mention of few. After retirement from M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur has been awarded a BSR Faculty fellowship by UGC, New Delhi.