[OrganicSynthesis]

I am currently a high school student and wish to learn analytical chemistry by myself. I have experienced Scroog before, and find the book dreadful, due to all the errors, and for a person experiencing analytical chemistry for the first time, I can't deal with the mistakes. So, I was wondering if there were any good books? Please don't recommend very easy, fundamental books just because I'm in highschool. Thanks !

[billnotgatez]

i am curious - did you look at the sticky
http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=31484.0

[OrganicSynthesis]

I have but I couldn't tell which books were good as references, which ones were good as advanced books, which ones were good for self learning, etc.

Although there were some books mentioned that were good for starting (two I believe), I couldn't tell if they were very basic or not. I don't know, I just don't feel like that topic didn't go into enough depth about what the textbooks were like.

[JGK]

"Analytical Chemistry" is a very wide field indeed some of the books I have used in my Master's degree and in my working life are:

Vogel's "Textbook of Quantitative Inorganic Analysis" (earlier editions include a lot of classical wet chemistry)
"Practical High performance Liquid Chromatography", V.R. Meyer
"Instrumental Methods of Analysis", Willard, Merrit,Dean and Settle
"Quantitative Chemical Analysis", Harris
"Statistics for Analytical Chemistry", Miller & Miller

[OrganicSynthesis]

Yeah, I've seen Harris come up a lot... Thanks, I think I'm either going to go with Vogel or Harris XD