Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry Key ideas and their experimental basis
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776817329
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Introduction; title: 1.1. Chemistry; title: 1.2. Inorganic Chemistry; title: 1.3. This course; title: 1.4. Broader context; title: 1.5. Further reading; title: 2. The relative importance of different elements; title: 2.1. The relative abundance of different elements; title: 2.2. The relative consumption of different elements; title: 2.3. Elements sought after from very low-grade ores; title: 2.4. Further reading; title: 3. Classification of elements into metals and nonmetals; title: 3.1. Types of element; title: 3.2. Assignment of elements to classes; title: 3.3. Volatilities of metals and nonmetals; title: 3.4. Chemical properties of metals and nonmetals; title: 4. Binary compounds; title: 4.1. General classification of compounds; title: 4.2. Limiting types of binary compound; title: 4.3. Metallic compounds; title: 4.4. Nonmetallic compounds; title: 4.5. Salt-like compounds; title: 4.6. Intermediate types of binary compound; title: 4.7. Further reading; title: 5. On the nature of the limiting types of binary compound; title: 5.1. Nonmetallic compounds; title: 5.2. Salt-like compounds; title: 5.3. Metallic compounds; title: 5.4. Limiting types of chemical bond; title: 5.5. Further reading; title: 6.. Types of formula; title: 6.1. Empirical formulae; title: 6.2. Molecular formulae; title: 6.3. Structural formulae; title: 6.4. Geometrical formulae; title: 7.. Classification of elements according to the electrochemical series; title: 7.1. Electrical and chemical series; title: 7.2. The electrochemical series; title: 7.3. Electronegativity; title: 7.4. Polar numbers; title: 7.5. Nomenclature of binary compounds; title: 7.6. Further reading; title: 8. Valency; title: 8.1. Ordinary valency; title: 8.2. Electrovalency; title: 8.3. Covalency; title: 8.4. Applicability of the three kinds of valency (V, E, and C); title: 8.5. Extension; title: 8.6. Table: Principal valencies of some important elements; title: 8.7. Further reading; title: 9. Pseudo-binary compounds; title: 9.1. Introduction; title: 9.2. On the nature of pseudo-binary compounds; title: 9.3. Some important radicals; title: 9.4. Nomenclature; title: 10. The Periodic Table; title: 10.1. The Periodic Law; title: 10.2. Nomenclature; title: 10.3. Use of the table; title: 10.4. General features; title: 10.5. A better form of table; title: 11. Interpretation of main-group valencies in terms of a simple model of main-group atoms; title: 11.1. Basic theory; title: 11.2. Refinement of model in the light of the quantum theory of atoms; title: 11.3. The dative bond; title: 11.4. Isoelectronic principle; title: 11.5. Transition elements; title: 11.6. Shapes of molecules; title: 11.7. Further reading; title: 12. Compounds of higher order than two; title: 12.1. Limiting types; title: 12.2. Metallic compounds; title: 12.3. Nonmetallic and salt-like compounds; title: 13. Coordination compounds; title: 13.1. Basic theory; title: 13.2. Terminology of coordination compounds; title: 13.3. Nomenclature of coordination compounds; title: 13.4. Bonding in coordination compounds; title: 13.5. Nonclassical coordination compounds; title: 13.6. Further reading; title: 14. Loose compounds and solutions; title: 14.1. Solutions; title: 14.2. Loose compounds; title: 15. Types of chemical reaction; title: 15.1. General types; title: 15.2. Some special types of reaction; title: 15.3. Acids, bases, and salts; title: 15.4. Classical conception; title: 15.5. Stoicheiometric conception; title: 15.6. Electrolytic conception; title: 15.7. Equations for acid-base reactions; title: 15.8. Further aspects; title: 15.9. Lowry-Brønsted conception of acids and bases; title: 15.10. Solvent-system conception of acids and bases; title: 15.11. Other conceptions of acids and bases; title: 16. Oxidation and reduction; title: 16.1. Basic theory; title: 16.2. Half equations; title: 16.3. On the balancing of equations for redox reactions; title: 16.4. Further study; title: 17. Appendix 1 Hints and answers; title: 17.1. A1.1 Answers to questions and exercises, Chapters 1 - 5; title: 17.2. A1.2 Hints for exercises, Section 5.2; title: 17.3. A1.3 Answers to questions and exercises, Chapters 6 - 9; title: 17.4. A1.4 Answers to questions and exercises, Chapters 10 - 12; title: 17.5. A1.5 Answers to questions and exercises, Chapters 13 - 18; title: 18. Appendix 2 Pictures of structures; title: 18.1. Appendix 3; title: 18.2. Appendix 4; title: 18.3. Appendix 5