Basic Inorganic Chemistry

Part 1 First Principles
1 Some preliminaries
2 The electronic structure of atoms
3 Structure and bonding in molecules
4 Ionic solids
5 The chemistry of selected anions
6 Coordination chemistry
7 Solvents, solutions, acids, and bases
8 The periodic table and the chemistry of the elements

Part 2 The main group elements
9 Hydrogen
10 The group IA(1) elements: lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium
11 The group IIA(2) elements: beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium
12 Boron
13 The group IIIB (13) elements: aluminum, gallium, indium, and thallium
14 Carbon
15 The group IVB(14) elements: silicon, germanium, tin, and lead
16 Nitrogen
17 The group VB(15) elements: phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth
18 Oxygen
19 The group VIB(16) elements: sulfur, selenium, tellurium, and polonium
20 The halogens: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine
21 The noble gases
22 Zince, cadmium, and mercury

Part 3 Transition elements
23 Introduction to the transition elements: ligand field theory
24 The elements of the first transition series
25 The elements of the second and third transition series
26 Scandium, yttrium, and the lanthanides
27 The actinide elements

Part 4
28 Metal carbonyls and other transition metal complexes with acceptor ligands
29 Organometallic compounds
30 Stoichiometric and catalytic reactions of organometallic compounds
31 Bioinorganic chemistry
32 The inorganic solid state