Basic Inorganic Chemistry

by Cotton, F. Albert; Wilkinson, Geoffrey; Gaus, Paul L.

• ISBN13: 9780471505327
• ISBN10: 0471505323
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-18
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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 edition: 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.

Author Biography

F. ALBERT COTTON, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University.

SIR GEOFFREY WILKINSON, PhD, was a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine in London, United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Part 1 First Principles	1	(270)
Some Preliminaries	3	(32)
The Electronic Structure of Atoms	35	(38)
Structure and Bonding in Molecules	73	(52)
Ionic Solids	125	(22)
The Chemistry of Selected Anions	147	(18)
Coordination Chemistry	165	(54)
Solvents, Solutions, Acids, and Bases	219	(22)
The Periodic Table and the Chemistry of the Elements	241	(30)
Part 2 The Main Group Elements	271	(230)
Hydrogen	273	(14)
The Group IA(1) Elements: Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, and Cesium	287	(20)
The Group IIA(2) Elements: Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, and Barium	307	(12)
Boron	319	(38)
The Group IIIB(13) Elements: Aluminum, Gallium, Indium, and Thallium	357	(12)
Carbon	369	(14)
The Group IVB(14) Elements: Silicon, Germanium, Tin, and Lead	383	(16)
Nitrogen	399	(18)
The Group VB(15) Elements: Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony, and Bismuth	417	(18)
Oxygen	435	(16)
The Group VIB(16) Elements: Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium, and Polonium	451	(14)
The Halogens: Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine, and Astatine	465	(18)
The Noble Gases	483	(8)
Zinc, Cadmium, and Mercury	491	(10)
Part 3 Transition Elements	501	(138)
Introduction to the Transition Elements: Ligand Field Theory	503	(42)
The Elements of the First Transition Series	545	(42)
The Elements of the Second and Third Transition Series	587	(28)
Scandium, Yttrium, Lanthanum, and the Lanthanides	615	(10)
The Actinide Elements	625	(14)
Part 4 Some Special Topics	639	(146)
Metal Carbonyls and Other Transition Metal Complexes with πAcceptor (π-Acid) Ligands	641	(26)
Organometallic Compounds	667	(36)
Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions of Organometallic Compounds	703	(26)
Bioinorganic Chemistry	729	(28)
The Inorganic Solid State	757	(28)
Appendix I Aspects of Symmetry and Point Groups	785	(26)
Appendix IIA Table of the Hydrogen-Like Atomic Orbital Wave Functions	811	(2)
Appendix IIB Ionization Enthalpies of the Elements	813	(2)
Appendix IIC Ionic Radii	815	(4)
Appendix IID Electron Attachment Enthalpies of Selected Elements	819	(2)
Appendix IIE A Comparison of Electronegativity Values (Pauling Units) from Four Sources	821	(2)
Glossary	823	(10)
Index	833