Principles Of Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry / Edition 1

by Gary Wulfsberg

Overview

This is the only text currently available organized by class of compound and by property or reaction type, not group by group or element by element — which requires students to memorize isolated facts.Translated into Italian.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780935702668
Publisher:	University Science Books
Publication date:	05/29/1991
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	461
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gary Wulfsberg is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Middle Tennessee State University. He received his B.S. degree at Iowa State University and his Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry under Robert C. West at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His postdoctoral work was at the Cornell University Program on Science, Technology, and Society, and the Technical University of Darmstadt. Gary has served as chairman of the International Steering Committee for Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions, and he is the author of 40 publications and two previous University Science Books textbooks, Principles of Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry (1987, also translated into Italian) and Inorganic Chemistry (2000, also translated into French).

Table of Contents

1. Inorganic Chemistry: The Periodic Table and the World We Live In2. Metal Cations and Oxo Anions in Aqueous Solution3. Ionic Solids and Precipitation Reactions of Hydrated Ions4. Oxides and Polynuclear Oxo Anions of the Elements: Their Physical, Chemical, and Environmental Properties5. Oxidation-Reduction Chemistry of the Elements6. Properties of the Elements Themselves7. Coordination Compounds and the Lewis Acid-Base Concept8. The Hard and Soft Acid-Base (HSAB) Principle and Its Applications9. The Halides, Nitrides, and Sulfides of the Elements10.The Hydrides and Organometallic Derivatives of the Elements11.The Underlying Reasons for Periodic Trends12.Summary: Applying Theory to Chemical Reality13.Laboratory Experiments in the Principles of Descriptive Inorganic ChemistryAppendices: A. Answers to Selected Exercises; B. Glossary; C. Frequently Used TablesIndexEach chapter concludes with Study Objectives and Exercises.

Editorial Reviews

The author has been successful in his aim of bringing a more organized approach to descriptive chemistry for the student in the earlier part of the chemistry curriculum.

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