Table of Contents

• 1 Basic concepts: atoms
• 2 Basic concepts: molecules
• 3 Introduction to molecular symmetry
• 4 Experimental techniques
• 5 Bonding in polyatomic molecules
• 6 Structures and energetics of metallic and ionic solids
• 7 Acids, bases and ions in aqueous solution
• 8 Reduction and oxidation
• 9 Non-aqueous media
• 10 Hydrogen
• 11 Group 1: the alkali metals
• 12 The group 2 metals
• 13 The group 13 elements
• 14 The group 14 elements
• 15 The group 15 elements
• 16 The group 16 elements
• 17 The group 17 elements
• 18 The group 18 elements
• 19 d-Block metal chemistry: general considerations
• 20 d-Block metal chemistry: coordination complexes
• 21 d-Block metal chemistry: the first row metals
• 22 d-Block metal chemistry: the heavier metals
• 23 Organometallic compounds of s- and p-block elements
• 24 Organometallic compounds of d-block elements
• 25 Catalysis and some industrial processes
• 26 d-Block metal complexes: reaction mechanisms
• 27 The f-block metals: lanthanoids and actinoids
• 28 Inorganic materials and nanotechnology
• 29 The trace metals of life
• Appendices
• Answers to non-descriptive problems
• Index

About the Author

Catherine E. Housecroft is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of a number of textbooks and has had teaching experience in the UK, Switzerland, South Africa and the USA. She has published around 500 research papers and reviews, and her current research interests include aspects of coordination chemistry associated with solar energy conversion, solid state lighting, water oxidation, porous coordination polymers and networks and hierarchical assemblies.