Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 - THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM: A REVIEW ... 1
CHAPTER 2 - AN OVERVIEW OF THE PERIODIC TABLE ... 17
CHAPTER 3 - COVALENT BONDING ... 35
CHAPTER 4 - METALLIC BONDING ... 62
CHAPTER 5 - IONIC BONDING ... 71
CHAPTER 6 - INORGANIC THERMODYNAMICS ... 86
CHAPTER 7 - HYDROGEN ... 105
CHAPTER 8 - ACIDS AND BASES ... 121
CHAPTER 9 - OXIDATION AND REDUCTION ... 136
CHAPTER 10 - THE GROUP 1 ELEMENTS: THE ALKALI METALS ... 161
CHAPTER 11 - THE GROUP 2 ELEMENTS: THE ALKALINE EARTH METALS ... 187
CHAPTER 12 - THE GROUP 13 ELEMENTS ... 204
CHAPTER 13 - THE GROUP 14 ELEMENTS ... 224
CHAPTER 14 - THE GROUP 15 ELEMENTS ... 268
CHAPTER 15 - THE GROUP 16 ELEMENTS ... 307
CHAPTER 16 - THE GROUP 17 ELEMENTS: THE HALOGENS ... 345
CHAPTER 17 - THE 18 GROUP ELEMENTS: THE NOBLE GASES ... 373
CHAPTER 18 - INTRODUCTION TO TRANSITION METALS COMPLEXES ... 383
CHAPTER 19 - PROPERTIES OF THE TRANSITION METALS ... 411
CHAPTER 20 - THE GROUP 12 ELEMENTS ... 453
CHAPTER 21 - THE RARE EARTH AND ACTINOID ELEMENTS ... 465
APPENDIX 1 - STUDY QUESTIONS ... 476
APPENDIX 2 - CHARGE DENSITY OF SELECTED IONS ... 479
APPENDIX 3 - SELECTED BOND ENERGIES ... 482
APPENDIX 4 - ELECTRON CONFIGURATION OF THE ELEMENTS ... 484
INDEX ... 488
G. RAYNER-CANHAM
Goeff Rayner-canham is professor of Chemistry at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, a small teaching-oriented campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, where he has taught descriptive inorganic chemistry for 20 years. He earned his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and he has taught at a number of colleges and universities across North America, including the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Victoria. His teaching excellence has resulted in two prestigious teaching awards: the Polysar Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada and the Canadian Region Catalyst Award of the Chemical Manufacturers Association. A prolific author of papers in the fields of inorganic chemistry, chemical education, and the history of science, Rayner-Canham is senior author of a pair of high school chemistry texts in Canada and co-author of a biography of Harriet Brooks, pioneer research in radioactivity.
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