Last edition Elsevier Now in its fifth edition, Housecroft & Sharpe’s Inorganic Chemistry, continues to provide an engaging, clear and comprehensive introduction to core physical-inorganic principles. This widely respected and internationally renowned textbook introduces the descriptive chemistry of the elements and the role played by inorganic chemistry in our everyday lives. The stunning full-colour design has been further enhanced for this edition with an abundance of three-dimensional molecular and protein structures and photographs, bringing to life the world of inorganic chemistry.
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ISBN 13: 9781292134147
Imprint: Pearson Education
Language: English
Authors: Catherine Housecroft
Pub Date: 09/2019
Pages: 1296
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 3,000.00 grams
Size: 210 x 275 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- • thematic boxed sections with a focus on areas of biology and medicine, the environment, applications, and theory, to engage students and ensure they gain a deep, practical and topical understanding
- • a wide range of in-text self-study exercises including worked examples, reflective questions and end of chapter problems to aid independent study
- • definition panels and end-of-chapter checklists to provide students with excellent revision aids
- • striking visuals throughout the book have been carefully crafted to illustrate molecular and protein structures and to entice students further into the world of inorganic chemistry.
- Catherine Housecroft is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of a number of textbooks and has had teaching experience in the UK, Switzerland, South Africa and the USA. She has published around 500 research papers and reviews, and her current research interests include aspects of coordination chemistry associated with solar energy conversion, solid state lighting, water oxidation, porous coordination polymers and networks and hierarchical assemblies.
- 1 Basic concepts: atoms
- 2 Basic concepts: molecules
- 3 Introduction to molecular symmetry
- 4 Experimental techniques
- 5 Bonding in polyatomic molecules
- 6 Structures and energetics of metallic and ionic solids
- 7 Acids, bases and ions in aqueous solution
- 8 Reduction and oxidation
- 9 Non-aqueous media
- 10 Hydrogen
- 11 Group 1: the alkali metals
- 12 The group 2 metals
- 13 The group 13 elements
- 14 The group 14 elements
- 15 The group 15 elements
- 16 The group 16 elements
- 17 The group 17 elements
- 18 The group 18 elements
- 19 d-Block metal chemistry: general considerations
- 20 d-Block metal chemistry: coordination complexes
- 21 d-Block metal chemistry: the first row metals
- 22 d-Block metal chemistry: the heavier metals
- 23 Organometallic compounds of s- and p-block elements
- 24 Organometallic compounds of d-block elements
- 25 Catalysis and some industrial processes
- 26 d-Block metal complexes: reaction mechanisms
- 27 The f-block metals: lanthanoids and actinoids
- 28 Inorganic materials and nanotechnology
- 29 The trace metals of life
- Appendices
- Answers to non-descriptive problems
- Index
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