Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to vibrational spectroscopy / Peter R. Griffiths -- Sampling techniques and fiber-optic probes / John M. Chalmers and Peter R. Griffiths -- Vibrational spectroscopy in the discovery phase component of pharmaceutical research / Don E. Pivonka -- Applications of vibrational spectroscopy to combinatorial chemistry / Don E. Pivonka -- Vibrational spectroscopic analysis for the determination of structure : activity relationships (SAR) in molecular binding / Don E. Pivonka and Isao Noda -- Applications of vibrational optical activity in the pharmaceutical industry / Laurence A. Nafie and Rina K. Dukor -- Characterization and optimization of chemical synthesis using real-time vibrational spectroscopy / Fadi Homsi, Paul Barrett, Jian Wang and Roel Ferwerda -- Infrared and Raman spectroscopy for process development / George Zhou, Robert Guenard and Zhihong Ge -- The analysis of pharmaceutical substances and formulated products by vibrational spectroscopy / Don Clark and Alexander Pysik -- Raman analysis of pharmaceuticals / David E. Bugay, Jan-Olav Henck, Michael L. Longmire and Fiona C. Thorley -- Vibrational spectroscopy of solid-state forms : introduction, principles and overview / Terry L. Threlfall and John M. Chalmers -- Vibrational spectroscopy of solid-state forms : applications and examples / David H. Igo and Pingyun Chen -- Pharmaceutical applications of chemical mapping and imaging / Don Clark, Mark Henson, Fred LaPlant, Slobodan Sasic and Lin Zhang -- Terahertz spectroscopy for pharmaceutical applications / Mike Claybourn, Husheng Yang, Lubomir Gradinarksy, Jonas Johansson and Staffan Folestad -- History, trends and prognostications / Peter R. Griffiths, John M. Chalmers and Don E. Pivonka..