Synopses & Reviews
A systematic and descriptive approach to the first facts of inorganic chemistry. A firm and traditional presentation with a unified approach to the correlations and connections among properties, structures, reactivities, periodicities, and behaviors of the elements and their compounds. Discusses bonding based on the overlap criterion of bond strength, the rigors of bonding being presented without developing the math. Gives expanded treatment of periodicity, reaction mechanisms, electronic spectroscopy, bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, and organometallic chemistry. Includes three types of problems: review, additional challenging exercises, and questions from the literature on inorganic chemistry.
Synopsis
Explains the basics of inorganic chemistry with a primary emphasis on facts; then uses the student's growing factual knowledge as a foundation for discussing the important principles of periodicity in structure, bonding and reactivity. New to this updated edition: improved treatment of atomic orbitals and properties such as electronegativity, novel approaches to the depiction of ionic structures, nomenclature for transition metal compounds, quantitative approaches to acid-base chemistry, Wade's rules for boranes and carboranes, the chemistry of major new classes of substances including fullerenes and silenes plus a chapter on the inorganic solid state.
Table of Contents
FIRST PRINCIPLES.
Some Preliminaries.
The Electronic Structure of Atoms.
Structure and Bonding in Molecules.
Ionic Solids.
The Chemistry of Selected Anions.
Coordination Chemistry.
Solvents, Solutions, Acids and Bases.
The Periodic Table and the Chemistry of the Elements.
THE MAIN GROUP ELEMENTS.
Hydrogen.
The Group IA(1) Elements: Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Cesium.
The Group IIA(2) Elements: Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium and Barium.
Boron.
The Group IIIB(13) Elements: Aluminum, Gallium, Indium and Thallium.
Carbon.
The Group IVB(14) Elements: Silicon, Germanium, Tin and Lead.
Nitrogen.
The Group VB(15) Elements: Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth.
Oxygen.
The Group VIB(16) Elements: Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium and Polonium.
The Halogens: Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromide and Astatine.
The Noble Gases.
Zinc, Cadmium and Mercury.
THE TRANSITION ELEMENTS.
Introduction to Transition Elements: Ligand Field Theory.
The Elements of the First Transition Series.
The Elements of the Second and Third Transition Series.
Scandium, Yttrium, Lanthanum and the Lanthanides.
The Actinide Elements.
SOME SPECIAL TOPICS.
Metal Carbonyls and Other Transition Metal Complexes with TT-Acceptor (TT-Acid) Ligands.
Organometallic Compounds.
Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions of Organometallic Compounds.
Bio-Inorganic Chemistry.
Index.