Table of Content

1. What is Inorganic Chemistry?
2. The Structure of the Atom
3. Symmetry and Group Theory
4. Ionic Bonding and the Solid State
5. The Covalent Bond
6. The Structure of Molecules and Stereochemical Nonrigidity
7. Chemical Forces
8. Acid- Base Chemistry
9. Chemistry in Aqueous and Nonaqueous Solvents
10. The Chemistry of the Main Group Elements: Periodicity
11. The Chemistry of the Main Group Elements: Inorganic Chains, Rings and Cages
12. The Chemistry of the main group elements: Halogens and the Noble Gases
13. Some Descriptive Chemistry of the Metals
14. Coordination Chemistry : Bonding
15. Coordination Chemistry: Spectra and Magnetism
16. Coordination Chemistry: Structure, Isomerism, and Stability
17. Coordination Chemistry: Reactions, Kinetic and Mechanisms
18. Organometallic Chemistry: Syntheses, Structure, and Bonding
19. Organometallic Chemistry: Reactivity and Catalysis
20. The Inorganic Chemistry of Biological Systems

Salient Features

• Substantial rearrangement to suit the requirement of the students and teachers of the Indian subcontinent.
• Thorough re-editing and reorganization of the chapters on chemistry of the main group elements, descriptive chemistry of metals, organometallic chemistry, solid-state chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry.
• Addition of thermodynamic stability of complex compounds, organometallic chemistry of the main group elements, and Frost diagrams.
• A chapter on symmetry comprising applications of symmetry (including spectroscopy and crystallography) and an introduction to point groups.
• Reorganized and updated chapters on bonding, presenting a modern approach.