Housecroft Inorganic Chemistry (English, Paperback, Housecroft Catherine)

A market leading textbook offering a fresh and engaging approach to the teaching of modern inorganic chemistry while giving a clear, well-balanced introduction to the key principles of the subject.

The full-colour text design with three dimensional illustrations brings the subject to life. Throughout the book students are able to reinforce their learning with the use of worked examples and self-study exercises. Numerous applications and topic boxes also relate the chemistry to everyday life.

Salient Features

• Special selected topics chapters are included covering inorganic kinetics and mechanism, catalysis, solid state chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry
• Topic boxes are used extensively throughout to relate the chemistry described to everyday life, the chemical industry, environmental issues and legislation, and bioinorganic chemistry
• Principles and descriptive chemistry are covered in separate chapters, allowing students to study theory first and then relate theory to descriptive chemistry – enhanced further by the use of self-study exercises
• Worked examples take students through each calculation or exercise step-by-step, followed by related self-study exercises which reinforce student learning. End-of-chapter material also includes Overview Problems
• End-of-chapter checklists provide excellent revision aids, with further reading suggestions – from topical articles to recent literature papers – to encourage students to explore topics in more depth
• Definition boxes help to develop subject knowledge and skills, reinforced by extensive problems at the end of each chapter
• The Companion Website which accompanies the text features Multiple Choice Questions (including additional questions for this edition), rotatable 3D molecular structures, web links for further research, PowerPoint figures and Tables for Lecturers and a Short Guide for Lecturers written by Catherine E. Housecroft
• A Solutions Manual is available separately with detailed solutions to all end-of-chapter problems
• Full colour text design enhances the presentation of molecular structures and 3D images

New to this Edition

• The coverage of ‘basic concepts’ has been split into 2 chapters (Chapters 1 and 2)
• Updated coverage of recent advances in basic inorganic chemistry
• improved coverage of the use group theory in infrared spectroscopy (Chapter 4), of charge transfer bands and UV-VIS spectroscopy (Chapter 21), of term symbols and micro states (Chapter 21), and of magnetism (Chapter 21)
• new sections on super acids (Chapter 9) and carbon nanotubes (Chapter 28)
• Many new self-study exercises have been added to the descriptive chemistry chapters
• New Experimental Techniques boxes
• Updated Applications and Resources, environmental and biological boxes. In selected boxes, photographs have been included for the first time