Chemistry

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Chemistry

Fourth Edition

Chemistry provides robust coverage of all aspects of a first year undergraduate chemistry course with unique depth in organic chemistry in an introductory text helping students to develop a solid understanding of chemical principles, how they interconnect and how they can be applied to our lives.

MASTERING CHEMISTRY

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• Chapters are grouped into inorganic, physical, organic and analytical components, with integrating themes highlighted throughout. This provides flexibility and highlights the connections between different areas.
• Topic boxes throughout the book highlight the applications of chemistry in industry, biology, medicine, the environment and the laboratory. The choice of topics ensures that students understand the relevance of chemistry to everyday life.
• A new chapter, 'Chemistry in the workplace' introduces analytical techniques within the context of solving problems (pharmaceutical, forensic, environmental, commercial) in daily life.
• Extended discussions of the relevance of chemistry to biology, medicine and the environment.
• Definition boxes and end-of-chapter checklists provide excellent revision aids.
• End-of-chapter problems reinforce learning and develop subject knowledge. Each chapter also includes a new 'Chemistry in daily use' set of problems.
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  Catherine E. Housecroft and Edwin C. Constable are both Professors of Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. They have extensive international teaching experience and their research interests include supramolecular and organometallic chemistries, nanotechnology, molecular devices and dye-sensitized solar cells. In 1997 Professor Constable was awarded the prestigious Howard lectureship for pre-eminence in organic chemistry or related disciplines by the University of Sydney, Australia.

Zusammenfassung

Chemistry provides a robust coverage of the different branches of chemistry – with unique depth in organic chemistry in an introductory text – helping students to develop a solid understanding of chemical principles, how they interconnect and how they can be applied to our lives.

Inhalt

Preface
Guided tour
Acknowledgements
About the authors

1. Some basic concepts
2. Thermochemistry
3. Atoms and atomic structure.
4. Homonuclear covalent bonds
5. Heteronuclear diatomic molecules
6. Polyatomic molecules: shapes
7. Polyatomic molecules: bonding
8. Ions
9. Elements
10. Mass spectrometry
11. Introduction to spectroscopy
12. Vibrational and rotational spectroscopies
13. Electronic spectroscopy
14. NMR spectroscopy
15. Reaction kinetics
16. Equilibria
17. Thermodynamics
18. Electrochemistry
19. The conductivity of ions in solution
20. Periodicity
21. Hydrogen and the s-block elements
22. p-Block and high oxidation state d-block elements
23. Coordination complexes of the d-block metals
24. Carbon compounds: an introduction
25. Acyclic and cyclic alkanes
26. Alkenes and alkynes
27. Polar organic molecules: an introduction
28. Halogenoalkanes
29. Ethers
30. Alcohols
31. Amines
32. Aromatic compounds
33. Carbonyl compounds

34. Aromatic heterocyclic compounds
    35. Molecules in nature

35. Chemistry in the workplace

Appendices

Answers to end-of-chapter problems*
Index*