Basic Inorganic Chemistry
- 3rd Ed.
- New Delhi: Wiley India, 2007.
- 838p.
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