num_pages: 856
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Basic Inorganic Chemistry
publisher: Wiley