Concise Inorganic Chemistry

Description

The New edition of this classic book has been thoroughly revised, but remains faithful to the principles that have established it as a favourite among teachers and students around the world. It provides a concise and relevant treatment of inorganic chemistry and is written with such clarity that it is undoubtedly among the easiest to read of its competitors.

The book is organized into six 'Parts': theoretical concepts and hydrogen; the s-block; the p-block; the d-block; the f-block' and other topics (the nucleus and spectra). To make sections easy to find, the text is divided into large number of chapters and includes a comprehensive index, a detailed table of components and around 600 references classified according to complexity.

An important aspect of this book is its concentration on commercial exploitation of inorganic chemicals, something noticeably missing among other texts at this level. In this new edition that strength has been built on and brought up to date. Interest in environmental chemistry has continued to escalate since the last edition and this is reflected in increased coverage of the inorganic aspects of the subject. Every chapter in the book has been revised and updated and it now follows the IUPAC recommendation that the main groups and the transition metals be numbered from 1 to 18.

The guiding principle of the numerous changes to this new volume has been to ensure that treatment of material is always simple, straightforward and relevant. The result is a book which can be used with confidence by those who require a thorough grounding in inorganic chemistry and its importance to the modern world.

Table of contents

PART ONE THEORETICAL CONCEPTS AND HYDROGEN

1. Atomic structure and the periodic table
2. Introduction to bonding
3. The ionic bond
4. The covalent bond
5. The metalic bond
6. General properties of the elements
7. Coordination compounds
8. Hydrogen and the hydrides

9. Group 1 - the alkali metals
10. The chlor-alkali industry
11. Group 2 - the alkaline earth elements

12. The group 13 elements
13. The group 14 elements
14. The group 15 elements
15. Group 16 - the chalcogens
16. Group 17 - the halogens
17. Group 18 - the noble gases

18. An introduction to the transition elements
19. Group 3 - the scandium group
20. Group 4 - the titanium group
21. Group 5 - the vanadium group
22. Group 6 - the chromium group
23. Group 7 - the manganese group
24. Group 8 - the iron group
25. Group 9 - the cobalt group
26. Group 10 - the nuckel group
27. Group 11 - the copper group: coinage metals
28. Group 12 - the zinc group

29. The lanthanide series
30. The actinides

31. The atomic nucleus
32. Spectra