Basic Inorganic Chemistry

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.

F. ALBERT COTTON, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University.

SIR GEOFFREY WILKINSON, PhD, was a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in London, United Kingdom.

Part 1 First Principles

1

(270)

Some Preliminaries

3

(32)

The Electronic Structure of Atoms

35

(38)

Structure and Bonding in Molecules

73

(52)

Ionic Solids

125

(22)

The Chemistry of Selected Anions

147

(18)

Coordination Chemistry

165

(54)

Solvents, Solutions, Acids, and Bases

219

(22)

The Periodic Table and the Chemistry of the Elements

241

(30)

Part 2 The Main Group Elements

271

(230)

Hydrogen

273

(14)

The Group IA(1) Elements: Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, and Cesium

287

(20)

The Group IIA(2) Elements: Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, and Barium

307

(12)

Boron

319

(38)

The Group IIIB(13) Elements: Aluminum, Gallium, Indium, and Thallium

357

(12)

Carbon

369

(14)

The Group IVB(14) Elements: Silicon, Germanium, Tin, and Lead

383

(16)

Nitrogen

399

(18)

The Group VB(15) Elements: Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony, and Bismuth

417

(18)

Oxygen

435

(16)

The Group VIB(16) Elements: Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium, and Polonium

451

(14)

The Halogens: Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine, and Astatine

465

(18)

The Noble Gases

483

(8)

Zinc, Cadmium, and Mercury

491

(10)

Part 3 Transition Elements

501

(138)

Introduction to the Transition Elements: Ligand Field Theory

503

(42)

The Elements of the First Transition Series

545

(42)

The Elements of the Second and Third Transition Series

587

(28)

Scandium, Yttrium, Lanthanum, and the Lanthanides

615

(10)

The Actinide Elements

625

(14)

Part 4 Some Special Topics

639

(146)

Metal Carbonyls and Other Transition Metal Complexes with πAcceptor (π-Acid) Ligands

641

(26)

Organometallic Compounds

667

(36)

Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions of Organometallic Compounds

703

(26)

Bioinorganic Chemistry

729

(28)

The Inorganic Solid State

757

(28)

Appendix I Aspects of Symmetry and Point Groups

785

(26)

Appendix IIA Table of the Hydrogen-Like Atomic Orbital Wave Functions

811

(2)

Appendix IIB Ionization Enthalpies of the Elements

813

(2)

Appendix IIC Ionic Radii

815

(4)

Appendix IID Electron Attachment Enthalpies of Selected Elements

819

(2)

Appendix IIE A Comparison of Electronegativity Values (Pauling Units) from Four Sources

821

(2)

Glossary

823

(10)

Index

833

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