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Inorganic Chemistry

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Our aim in the fifth edition of Shriver and Atkins’ Inorganic Chemistry is to provide a
comprehensive and contemporary introduction to the diverse and fascinating discipline of
inorganic chemistry. Inorganic chemistry deals with the properties of all of the elements
in the periodic table. These elements range from highly reactive metals, such as sodium,
to noble metals, such as gold. The nonmetals include solids, liquids, and gases, and range
from the aggressive oxidizing agent fluorine to unreactive gases such as helium. Although
this variety and diversity are features of any study of inorganic chemistry, there are underlying
patterns and trends which enrich and enhance our understanding of the discipline.
These trends in reactivity, structure, and properties of the elements and their compounds
provide an insight into the landscape of the periodic table and provide a foundation on
which to build understanding.
Inorganic compounds vary from ionic solids, which can be described by simple applications
of classical electrostatics, to covalent compounds and metals, which are best
described by models that have their origin in quantum mechanics. We can rationalize and
interpret the properties of most inorganic compounds by using qualitative models that
are based on quantum mechanics, such as atomic orbitals and their use to form molecular
orbitals. The text builds on similar qualitative bonding models that should already be familiar
from introductory chemistry courses. Although qualitative models of bonding and
reactivity clarify and systematize the subject, inorganic chemistry is essentially an experimental
subject. New areas of inorganic chemistry are constantly being explored and new
and often unusual inorganic compounds are constantly being synthesized and identified.
These new inorganic syntheses continue to enrich the field with compounds that give us
new perspectives on structure, bonding, and reactivity.
Inorganic chemistry has considerable impact on our everyday lives and on other scientific
disciplines. The chemical industry is strongly dependent on it. Inorganic chemistry
is essential to the formulation and improvement of modern materials such as catalysts,
semiconductors, optical devices, superconductors, and advanced ceramic materials. The
environmental and biological impact of inorganic chemistry is also huge. Current topics
in industrial, biological, and environmental chemistry are mentioned throughout the book
and are developed more thoroughly in later chapters.
In this new edition we have refined the presentation, organization, and visual representation.
All of the book has been revised, much has been rewritten and there is some completely
new material. We have written with the student in mind, and we have added new
pedagogical features and have enhanced others.
The topics in Part 1, Foundations, have been revised to make them more accessible
to the reader with more qualitative explanation accompanying the more mathematical
treatments.
Part 2, The elements and their compounds, has been reorganized. The section starts with
a new chapter which draws together periodic trends and cross references forward to the
descriptive chapters. The remaining chapters start with hydrogen and proceed across the
periodic table from the s-block metals, across the p block, and finishing with the d- and
f-block elements. Most of these chapters have been reorganized into two sections: Essentials
describes the essential chemistry of the elements and the Detail provides a more thorough
account. The chemical properties of each group of elements and their compounds are
enriched with descriptions of current applications. The patterns and trends that emerge are
rationalized by drawing on the principles introduced in Part 1.
Part 3, Frontiers, takes the reader to the edge of knowledge in several areas of current
research. These chapters explore specialized subjects that are of importance to industry,
materials, and biology, and include catalysis, nanomaterials, and bioinorganic chemistry.
All the illustrations and the marginal structures—nearly 1500 in all—have been redrawn
and are presented in full colour. We have used colour systematically rather than just
for decoration, and have ensured that it serves a pedagogical purpose.

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Penerbit

Oxford : Oxford University Press., 2010

Deskripsi Fisik

xvi, 824 Hlm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

978–1–42–921820–7

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Edisi

5th ed.

Subjek

KIMIA INORGANIK

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