本书是国外优秀化学教学用书。全书共16章，主要包括无机化学介绍、原子结构、价键理论简介、对称性与群论、分子轨道、酸碱理论、晶体、主族元素、异构体、价键、原子光谱、反应及其机理、有机金属化学、有机金属反应及其机理、主族与有机金属的关联。每章节后有习题，书后有习题解析。并附录常用热力学数据表等内容。
本书体系合理，适用于化学和非化学类专业用做双语教学教材，也可用于教学参考。
- 1 INTRODUCTION TO INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- 1-1 What is Inorganic Chemistry?
- 1-2 Contrasts with Organic Chemistry
- 1-3 Genesis of the Elements (The Big Bang) and Formation of the Earth
- 1-4 Nuclear Reactions and Radioactivity
- 1-5 Distribution of Elements on Earth
- 1-6 The History of Inorganic Chemistry
- 2 ATOMIC STRUCTURE
- 2-1 Historical Development of Atomic Theory
- 2-1-1 The Periodic Table
- 2-1-2 Discovery of Subatomic Particles and the BohrAtom
- 2-2 The Schrodinger Equation
- 2-2-1 The Particle in a Box
- 2-2-2 Quantum Numbers and Atomic Wave Functions
- 2-2-3 The Auf bau Principle
- 2-2-4 Shielding
- 2-3 Periodic Properties of Atoms
- 2-3-1 Ionization Energy
- 2-3-2 ElectronAffinity
- 2-3-3 Covalent and Ionic Radii
- 3 SIMPLE BONDING THEORY
- 3-1 Lewis Electron-Dot Diagrams
- 3-1-1 Resonance
- 3-1-2 Expanded Shells
- 3-1-3 Formal Charge
- 3-1-4 Multiple Bonds in Be and B Compounds
- 3-2 Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Theory
- 3-2-1 Lone Pair Repulsion
- 3-2-2 Multiple Bonds
- 3-2-3 Electronegativity and Atomic Size Effects
- 3-2-4 Ligand Close-Packing
- 3-3 Polar Molecules
- 3-4 Hydrogen Bonding
- 4 SYMMETRY AND GROUP THEORY
- 4-1 Symmetry Elements and Operations
- 4-2 Point Groups
- 4-2-1 Groups of Low and High Symmetry
- 4-2-2 Other Groups
- 4-3 Properties and Representations of Groups
- 4-3-1 Matrices
- 4-3-2 Representations of Point Groups
- 4-3-3 Character Tables
- 4-4 Examples and Applications of Symmetry
- 4-4-1 Chirality
- 4-4-2 Molecular Vibrations
- 5 MOLECULAR ORBITALS
- 5-1 Formation of Molecular Orbitals from Atomic Orbitals
- 5-1-1 Molecular Orbitals from s Orbitals
- 5-1-2 Molecular Orbitals form p Orbitals
- 5-1-3 Molecular Orbitals from d Orbitals
- 5-1-4 Nonbonding Orbitals and Other Factors
- 5-2 Homonuclear Diatomic Molecules
- 5-2-1 Molecular Orbitals
- 5-2-2 Orbital Mixing
- 5-2-3 First and Second Row Molecules
- 5-2-4 Photoelectron Spectroscopy
- 5-2-5 Correlation Diagrams
- 5-3 Heteronuclear Diatomic Molecules
- 5-3-1 Polar Bonds
- 5-3-2 Ionic Compounds and Molecular Orbitals
- 5-4 Molecular Orbitals for Larger Molecules
- 5-4-1 FHF-
- 5-4-2 C02
- 5-4-3 H2O
- 5-4-4 NH3
- 5-4-5 BF3
- 5-4-6 Molecular Shapes
- 5-4-7 Hybrid Orbitals
- 5-5 Expanded Shells and Molecular Orbitals
- 6 ACID-BASE AND DONOR-ACCEPTOR CHEMISTRY
- 6-1 Acid-Base Concepts as Organizing Concepts
- 6-2 Major Acid-Base Concepts
- 6-2-1 Arrhenius Concept
- 6-2-2 Bronsted-Lowry Concept
- 6-2-3 Solvent System Concept
- 6-2-4 Lewis Concept
- 6-2-5 Frontier Orbitals and Acid-Base Reactions
- 6-2-6 Hydrogen Bonding
- 6-2-7 Electronic Spectra (Including Charge Transfer)
- 6-3 Hard and Soft Acids and Bases
- 6-3-1 Theory of Hard and Soft Acids and Bases
- 6-3-2 Quantitative Measures
- 6-4 Acid and Base Strength
- 6-4-1 Measurement ofAcid-Base Interactions
- 6-4-2 Thermodynamic Measurements
- 6-4-3 Proton Affinity
- 6-4-4 Acidity and Basicity of Binary Hydrogen Compounds
- 6-4-5 Inductive Effects
- 6-4-6 Strength of Oxyacids
- 6-4-7 Acidity of Cations in Aqueous Solution
- 6-4-8 Steric Effects 199
- 6-4-9 Solvation and Acid-Base Strength
- 6-4-10 Nonaqueous Solvents and Acid-Base Strength
- 6-4-11 Superacids
- 7 THE CRYSTALLINE SOLID STATE
- 7-1 Formulas and Structures
- 7-1-1 Simple Structures
- 7-1-2 Structures of Binary Compounds
- 7-1-3 More Complex Compounds
- 7-1-4 Radius Ratio
- 7-2 Thermodynamics of Ionic Crystal Formation
- 7-2-1 Lattice Energy and Madelung Constant
- 7-2-2 Solubility, Ion Size (Large-Large and Small-Small), and HSAB
- 7-3 Molecular Orbitals and Band Structure
- 7-3-1 Diodes, The PhotovoltaicEffect, and Light-Emitting Diodes
- 7-4 Superconductivity
- 7-4-1 Low-Temperature Superconducting Alloys
- 7-4-2 The Theory of Superconductivity (Cooper Pairs)
- 7-4-3 High-Temperature Superconductors (PBa2Cu307 and Related Compounds)
- 7-5 Bonding in Ionic Crystals
- 7-6 Imperfections in Solids
- 7-7 Silicates
- 8 CHEMISTRY OF THE MAIN GROUP ELEMENTS
- 8-1 General Trends in Main Group Chemistry
- 8-1-1 Physical Properties
- 8-1-2 Electronegativity
- 8-1-3 Ionization Energy
- 8-1-4 Chemical Properties
- 8-2 Hydrogen
- 8-2-1 Chemical Properties
- 8-3 Group 1 (ⅠA): The Alkali Metals
- 8-3-1 The Elements
- 8-3-2 Chemical Properties
- 8-4 Group 2 (Ⅱ A): The Alkaline Earths
- 8-4-1 The Elements
- 8-4-2 Chemical Properties
- 8-5 Group 13 (ⅢA) 256
- 8-5-1 The Elements 256
- 8-5-2 Other Chemistry of the Group 13 (IIIA) Elements 260
- 8-6 Group 14 (ⅣA) 261
- 8-6-1 The Elements 261
- 8-6-2 Compounds 267
- 8-7 Group 15 (ⅤA) 272
- 8-7-1 The Elements 272
- 8-7-2 Compounds 274
- 8-8 Group 16(Ⅵ A) 279
- 8-9 Group 17 (ⅦA): The Halogens 285
- 8-10 Group 18 (ⅧIA): The Noble Gases
- 8-10-1 The Elements
- 8-10-2 Chemistry
- 9 COORDINATION CHEMISTRY I: STRUCTURES AND ISOMERS
- 9-1 History
- 9-2 Nomenclature
- 9-3 Isomerism
- 9-3-1 Stereoisomers
- 9-3-2 Four-Coordinate Complexes
- 9-3-3 Chirality
- 9-3-4 Six-Coordinate Complexes
- 9-3-5 Combinations of Chelate Rings
- 9-3-6 Ligand Ring Conformation
- 9-3-7 Constitutional Isomers
- 9-3-8 Experimental Separation and Identification ofisomers
- 9-4 Coordination Numbers and Structures
- 9-4-1 Low Coordination Numbers (CN＝1, 2, and 3)
- 9-4-2 Coordination Number 4
- 9-4-3Coordination Number 5
- 9-4-4 Coordination Number6
- 9-4-5 Coordination Number 7
- 9-4-6 Coordination Number 8
- 9-4-7 Larger Coordination Numbers
- 10 COORDINATION CHEMISTRY II: BONDING
- 10-1 Experimental Evidence for Electronic Structures
- 10-1-1 Thermodynamic Data
- 10-1-2 Magnetic Susceptibility
- 10-1-3 Electronic Spectra
- 10-1-4 Coordination Numbers and Molecular Shapes
- 10-2 Theories of Electronic Structure
- 10-2-1 Terminology
- 10-2-2 Historical Background
- 10-3 Ligand Field Theory
- 10-3-1 Molecular Orbitals for Octahedral Compkxes
- 10-3-2 OrbitalSplitting and Electron Spin
- 10-3-3 Ligand Field Stabilization Energy
- 10-3-4 Pi Bonding
- 10-3-5 Square-Planar Complexes
- 10-3-6 Tetrahedral Complexes
- 10-4 Angular Overlap
- 10-4-1 Sigma-Donor Interactions
- 10-4-2 Pi-Acceptor Interactions
- 10-4-3 Pi-Donor Interactions
- 10-4-4 Types of Ligands and the Spectrochemical Series
- 10-4-5 Magnitudes of eσ,eπ, and A
- 10-5 The Jahn-Teller Effect
- 10-6 Four-and Six-Coordinate Preferences
- 10-7 Other Shapes
- 11 COORDINATION CHEMISTRY III: ELECTRONIC SPECTRA
- 11-1 Absorption of Light
- 11-1-1 Beer-LambertAbsorption Law
- 11-2 Quantum Numbers of Multielectron Atoms
- 11-2-1 Spin-Orbit Coupling
- 11-3 Electronic Spectra of Coordination Compounds
- 11-3-1 Selection Rules
- 11-3-2 Correlation Diagrams
- 11-3-3 Tanabe-Sugano Diagrams
- 11-3-4 Jahn-Teller Distortions and Spectra
- 11-3-5 Examples of Applications of Tanabe-Sugano Diagrams: Determining △0 from Spectra
- I1-3-6 Tetrahedral Complexes
- 11-3-7 Charge-Transfer Spectra
- 12 COORDINATION CHEMISTRY IV: REACTIONS AND MECHANISMS
- 12-1 History and Principles
- 12-2 Substitution Reactions
- 12-2-1 Inert and Labile Compounds
- 12-2-2 Mechanisms of Substitution
- 12-3 Kinetic Consequences of Reaction Pathways
- 12-3-1 Dissociation (D)
- 12-3-2 Interchange (I)
- 12-3-3 Association (A)
- 12-4 Experimental Evidence in Octahedral Substitution
- 12-4-1 Dissociation
- 12-4-2 Linear Free Energy Relationships
- 12-4-3 Associative Mechanisms
- 12-4-4 The Conjugate Base Mechanism
- 12-4-5 The Kinetic Chelate Effect
- 12-5 Stereochemistry of Reactions
- 12-5-1 Substitution in trans Complexes
- 12-5-2 Substitution in cis Complexes
- 12-5-3 Isomerization of Chelate Rings
- 12-6 Substitution Reactions of Square-Planar Complexes
- 12-6-1 Kinetics and Stereochemistry of Square-Planar Substitutions
- 12-6-2 Evidence forAssociative Reactions
- 12-7 The trans Effect
- 12-7-1 Explanations of the trans Effect
- 12-8 Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
- 12-8-1 Inner-and Outer-Sphere Reactions
- 12-8-2 Conditions for High and Low Oxidation Numbers
- 12-9 Reactions of Coordinated Ligands
- 12-9-1 Hydrolysis of Esters,Amides,and Peptides
- 12-9-2 Template Reactions
- 12-9-3 Electrophilic Substitution
- 13 ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
- 13-1 Historical Background
- 13-2 Organic Ligands and Nomenclature
- 13-3 The 18-Electron Rule
- 13-3-1 Counting Electrons
- 13-3-2 Why 18 Electrons?
- 13-3-3 Square-Planar Complexes
- 13-4 Ligands in Organometallic Chemistry
- 13-4-1 Carbonyl (CO) Complexes
- 13-4-2 Ligands Similar to CO
- 13-4-3 Hydride and Dihydrogen Complexes
- 13-4-4 Ligands Having ExtendedπSystems
- 13-5 Bonding Between Metal Atoms and Organic Π Systems
- 13-5-1 LinearπSystems
- 13-5-2 CyclicπSystems
- 13-5-3 Fullerene Complexes
- 13-6 Complexes. Containing M－C,M＝C,and M≡C Bonds
- 13-6-1 Alkyl and Related Complexes
- 13-6-2 Carbene Complexes
- 13-6-3 Carbyne (Alkylidyne) Complexes
- 13-7 Spectral Analysis and Characterization of Organometallic Complexes
- 13-7-1 Infrared Spectra
- 13-7-2 NMR Spectra
- 13-7-3 Examples of characterization
- 14 ORGANOMETALLIC REACTIONS AND CATALYSIS
- 14-1 Reactions Involving Gain or Loss of Ligands
- 14-1-1 Ligand Dissociation and Substitution
- 14-1-2 Oxidative Addition
- 14-1-3 Reductive Elimination
- 14-1-4 Nucleophilic Displacement
- 14-2 Reactions Involving Modification of Ligands
- 14-2-1 Insertion
- 14-2-2 Carbonyl Insertion (Alkyl Migration)
- 14-2-3 1,2 Insertions
- 14-2-4 Hydride Elimination
- 14-2-5 Abstraction
- 14-3 Otganometallic Catalysts
- 14-3-1 Example of Catalysis:Catalytic Deuteration
- 14-3-2 Hydroforrnylation
- 14-3-3 Monsanto Acetic Acid Process
- 14-3-4 Wacker(Smidt)Process
- 14-3-5 Hydrogenation by Wilkinson's Catalyst
- 14-3-6 Olefin Metathesis
- 14-4 Heterogeneous Catalysts
- 14-4-1 Ziegler-Natta Polymerizations
- 14-4-2 Water Gas Reaction
- 15 PARALLELS BETWEEN MAIN GROUP AND ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
- 15-1 Main Group Parallels with Binary Carbonyl Complexes
- 15-2 The Isolobal Analogy
- 15-2-1 Extensions of the Analogy
- 15-2-2 Examples of Applications of the Analogy
- 15-3 Metal-Metal Bonds
- 15-3-1 Multiple Metal-Metal Bonds
- 15-4 Cluster Compounds
- 15-4-1 Boranes
- 15-4-2 Heteroboranes
- 15-4-3 Metallaboranes and Metallacarboranes
- 15-4-4 Carbonyl Clusters
- 15-4-5 Carbide Clusters
- 15-4-6 Additional Comments on Clusters
- 16 BIOINORGANIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
- 16-1 Porphyrins and Related Complexes
- 16-1-1 Iron Porphyrins
- 16-1-2 Similar Ring Compounds
- 16-2 Other Iron Compounds
- 16-3 Zinc and Copper Enzymes
- 16-4 Nitrogen Fixation
- 16-5 Nitric Oxide
- 16-6 Inorganic Medicinal Compounds
- 16-6-1 Cisplatin and Related Complexes
- 16-6-2 Auranofin and Arthritis Treatment
- 16-6-3 Vanadium Complexes in Medicine
- 16-7 Study of DNA Using Inorganic Agents
- 16-8 Environmental Chemistry
- 16-8-1 Metals
- 16-8-2 Nonmetals
- APPENDIX A ANSWERS TO EXERCISES
- APPENDIX B-1 IONIC RADII
- APPENDIX B-2 IONIZATION ENERGY
- APPENDIX B-3 ELECTRON AFFINITY
- APPENDIX B-4 ELECTRON EGATIVITY
- APPENDIX B-5 ABSOLUTE HARDNESS PARAMETERS
- APPENDIX B-6 CA, EA, CB, AND EB VALUES
- APPENDIX B-7 LATIMER DIAGRAMS FOR SELECTED ELEMENTS
- APPENDIX C CHARACTER TABLES
- APPENDIX D ELECTRON-DOT DIAGRAMS AND FORMAL CHARGE
- INDEX
