Basic Inorganic Chemistry

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 Elements: Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium and Cesium; The Group IIA Elements: Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium and Barium; Boron; The Group IIIB Elements: Aluminum, Gallium, Indium and Thallium; Carbon; The Group IVB Elements: Silicon, Germanium, Tin and Lead; Nitrogen; The Group VB Elements: Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth; Oxygen; The Group VIB 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.