The world of atoms and molecules; ideal and real gases; changes of state; phases and multicomponent systems; activity and equilibrium of gases and solutions; chemical reactions - kinetics, dynamics and equilibrium; vibrational mechanics of particle systems; molecular quantum mechanics; vibrational-rotational spectroscopy; electronic structure; statistical mechanics; magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Appendices: mathematical background; molecular symmetry; special quantum mechanical approaches; table of integrals; table of integrals; table of atomic masses and nuclear spins; fundamental constants and conversion of units.