Abstract
Pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, the most representative family of biologically active molecules obtained by means industrial processing, embrace a huge diversity of compounds—mainly organic compounds—used as drugs for diseases, and pesticides for pest control in modern agriculture. As relevant industrial sectors for the modern society, both pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals demand advanced analytical techniques and methods for monitoring and quality control of processes, raw material, inputs, and products. However, these sectors generate a diversity of analytical matrices with their own physical characteristics. In this chapter several classes of analytical techniques, as chromatographic techniques, spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques, thermal techniques, among others are presented and discussed in order to be applied in the fine chemical industry and their analytes; furthermore, relevant auxiliary tools as artificial intelligence, quality by design, and chemometrics are introduced to obtain all potential and reliability from the analytical data.
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Variance is the square of the standard deviation (S); covariance is the sum of variance for a certain measurement.
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Vaz Jr, S. (2023). Agrochemistry and Pharma. In: Applications of Analytical Chemistry in Industry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38952-8_4
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