Table of Contents

1. What is Organic Chemistry? 2. The Structure of the Atom. 3. Symmetry and Group Theory. 4. Bonding Models in Inorganic Chemistry: 1. Ionic Compounds. 5. Bonding Models in Inorganic Chemistry: 2. The Covalent Bond. 6. The Structure and Reactivity of Molecules. 7. The Solid State. 8. Chemical Forces. 9. Acid-Base Chemistry. 10. Chemistry in Aqueous and Nonaqueous Solvents. 11. Coordination Chemistry: Bonding, Spectra, and Magnetism. 12. Coordination Chemistry: Structure. 13. Coordination Chemistry: Reactions, Kinetics, and Mechanisms. 14. Some Descriptive Chemistry of the Metals. 15. Organometallic Chemistry. 16. Inorganic Chains, Rings, Cages, and Clusters. 17. The Chemistry of the Halogens and the Noble Gases. 18. Periodicity. 19. The Inorganic Chemistry of Biological Systems. Appendices. Index.