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Inorganic chemistry for dummies /
The easy way to get a grip on inorganic chemistry Inorganic chemistry can be an intimidating subject, but it doesn't have to be! Whether you're currently enrolled in an inorganic chemistry class or you have a background in chemistry and want to expand your knowledge, Inorganic Chemistry Fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2013.
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| Colección: | --For dummies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction:
- About this book
- Conventions used in this book
- What you don't need to read
- Foolish assumptions
- How this book is organized:
- Part 1: Reviewing some general chemistry
- Part 2: Rules of attraction: chemical bonding
- Part 3: It's elemental: dining at the periodic table
- Part 4: Special topics
- Part 5: Part of tens
- Icons used in this book
- Where to go from here
- Part 1: Reviewing Some General Chemistry:
- Introducing inorganic chemistry:
- Building the foundation:
- Losing your electrons
- Splitting atoms: nuclear chemistry
- Changing pH
- Getting a grip on chemical bonding
- Traveling across the periodic table:
- Hyping up hydrogen
- Moving through the main groups
- Transitioning from one side to the table to another
- Uncovering lanthanides and actinides
- Diving deeper: special topics:
- Bonding with carbon: organometallics
- Speeding things up: catalysts
- Inside and out: bio-inorganic and environmental chemistry
- Solid-state chemistry
- Nanotechnology
- Listing 40 more
- Following the leader: atomic structure and periodic trends:
- Up an' atom: reviewing atomic terminology:
- Sizing up subatomic particles
- Knowing the nucleus
- Going orbital
- Distinguishing atomic number and mass number
- Identifying isotopes
- Grouping elements in the periodic table:
- Keeping up with periodic trends
- Measuring atomic size
- Rating the atomic radius
- Eyeing ionization energy
- Examining electron affinities
- Noting electronegativity
- United States of oxidation:
- Entering the oxidation-reduction zone:
- Following oxidation state rules
- Scouting reduction potentials
- Walking through a redox reaction
- Isolating elements:
- Mechanically separating elements
- Using thermal decomposition
- Displacing one element with another
- Heating things up: high-temperature chemical reactions
- Relying on electrolytic reduction
- Gone fission: nuclear chemistry:
- Noting nuclear properties:
- Using the force
- Empirical strikes back
- Documenting atomic decay: radioactivity:
- Alpha radiation
- Beta radiation
- Gamma radiation
- Half-life principle
- Blind (radiocarbon) dating
- Radioisotopes
- Catalyzing a nuclear reaction:
- Fission
- Fusion
- ABCs: acid-base chemistry:
- Starting with the basics: acids and bases:
- Developing the pH scale
- Calculating pH
- Calculating acid dissociation
- Touring key theories: a historical perspective:
- Early years
- Bronsted-Lowry theory
- Accepting or donating: Lewis's theory
- Comparing Lewis and Bronsted theories
- Pearson's hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB):
- Characterization of the hard bodies
- Who you callin' soft?
- Strapping on a cape: superacids
- Rules Of Attraction: Chemical Bonding:
- No Mr Bond, I expect you to pi bond: covalent bonding:
- Connecting the dots: Lewis structures:
- Counting electrons
- Placing electrons
- Price tags in black ties? Formal charges
- Returning to the drawing board: resonance structures
- Keeping your distance: VSPR
- Ante up one electron: valence-bond theory
- Summing it all up: molecular orbital theory:
- Types of MOs
- Evens and odds: gerade and ungerade symmetry
- Identical twins: homonuclear diatomic molecules
- Fraternal twins: heteronuclear diatomic molecules
- Molecular symmetry and group theory:
- Identifying molecules: symmetry elements and operations:
- Identity
- n-fold rotational axis
- Inversion center
- Mirror planes
- Improper rotation axis
- It's not polite to point! Molecular point groups
- Being such a character table:
- Dissecting a character table
- Degrees of freedom
- Glitch in the matrix: matrix math
- Reducible reps
- Infrared and Raman active modes
- Ionic and metallic bonding:
- Blame it on electrostatic attraction: forming ionic bonds:
- Marrying a cation and an anion
- Measuring bond strength: lattice energy
- Coexisting with covalent bonds
- Conducting electricity in solution
- Admiring ionic crystals:
- Studying shapes: lattice types
- Size matters (when it's ionic)
- I'm melting! Dissolving ionic compounds with water: solubility:
- Just add water: hydrated ions
- Counting soluble compounds
- What is a metal, anyway?:
- Tracing the history of metallurgy
- Admiring the properties of solid metals
- Delocalizing electrons: conductivity
- Analyzing alloys
- Swimming in the electron sea: metallic bonding theories:
- Free-electron theory
- Valence bond theory
- Band theory.
- Clinging to complex ions: coordination complexes:
- Counting bonds
- Seeking stability
- Grouping geometries
- Identifying isomers:
- Connecting differently: structural isomers
- Arranged differently: stereoisomers
- Naming coordination complexes
- Sorting out the salts
- Creating metal complexes throughout the periodic table:
- Alkali metals
- Alkali earth metals
- Transition metals
- Lanthanides and actinides
- Metalloids
- Applying coordination complexes in the real world
- Part 3: It's Elemental: Dining At The Periodic Table:
- What the H? hydrogen!:
- Visiting hydrogen at home: its place in the periodic table
- Appreciating the merits of hydrogen:
- Available in abundance
- Molecular properties
- Nuclear spin
- Introducing hydrogen isotopes
- Investing in hydrogen bonds:
- Forming a hydrogen ion
- Creating hydrides
- Applying itself: hydrogen's uses in chemistry and industry
- Earning your salt: the alkali and alkaline earth metals:
- Salting the earth: group 1 elements:
- Lithium the outlier
- Seafaring sodium
- Maintaining your brain with potassium
- Rubidium, cesium, francium, oh my
- Reacting less violently: the group 2 alkaline earth metals:
- Being beryllium
- Magnificent magnesium
- Commonly calcium
- Strontium, barium, radium
- Diagramming the diagonal relationship
- Main groups:
- Placing main group elements on the periodic table
- Lucky 13: the boron group:
- Not-so-boring boron
- Abundance of aluminum
- Mendeleev's missing link: gallium
- Increasing indium use
- Toxic thallium
- Diamond club: the carbon group:
- Captivating carbon
- Coming in second: silicon
- Germane germanium
- Malleable tin cans
- Plumbing lead
- Noting pnictides of the nitrogen group:
- Leading the pnictides: nitrogen
- Finding phosphorus everywhere
- Melding the metalloids: arsenic and antimony
- Keeping up with the chalcogens:
- Oxygen all around
- Sulfur
- From the earth to the moon
- Marco-polonium!
- (re)active singles: the group 17 halogens:
- Cleaning up with chlorine
- Briny bromine
- Iodine
- Rarely astatine
- Lights of New York: the group 18 noble gases
- Bridging two sides of the periodic table: the transition metals:
- Getting to know transition metals:
- Sorting t-metals into series
- Separating T-metals from the main group
- Partially filling d-orbitals:
- Calculating an effective nuclear charge
- Forming more than one oxidation state
- Splitting the difference: crystal field theory and transition metal complexes:
- Dividing d-orbitals
- Absorbing light waves: color
- Building attraction: magnetism
- Electronic structure and bonding:
- Reacting with other elements
- Creating coordination complexes
- Adsorbing gas: t-metals in catalysis
- Finding what lies beneath: the lanthanides and actinides:
- Spending quality time with the rare earth elements: lanthanides:
- Electronic structure
- Reactivity
- Lanthanide contraction
- Separating the lanthanide elements
- Using lanthanides
- Feelin' radioactive: the actinides:
- Finding or making actinides
- Examining electronic structure
- Comparing reactivity: actinide versus lanthanide
- Looking more closely at uranium
- Part 4: Special Topics:
- Not quite organic, not quite inorganic: organometallics:
- Building organometallic complexes
- Adhering to electron rules:
- Counting to eight: the octet rule
- Calculating with the 18-electron rule
- Settling for 16 electrons
- Effectively using the EAN rule
- Bonding with metals: ligands
- Including carbon: carbonyls
- Providing the best examples:
- e-precise carbon
- e-rich nitrogen
- e-deficient boron
- Behaving oddly: organometallics of groups 1,2, and 12
- Sandwiched together: metallocenes
- Clustering together: metal-metal bonding
- Creating vacancies: insertion and elimination
- Synthesizing organometallics
- Showing similarities with main group chemistry.
- Accelerating change: catalysts:
- Speeding things up-the job of a catalyst
- Considering types of catalysts:
- Homogenous catalysts
- Heterogeneous
- Organocatalysts
- Bioinorganic chemistry: finding metals in living systems:
- Focusing on photosynthesis
- Climbing aboard the oxygen transport
- Feeding a nitrogen fixation:
- Fixing nitrogen for use by organisms
- Re-absorbing nitrogen
- Being human:
- Making things happen: enzymes
- Curing disease: medicines
- Causing problems: toxicity
- Answering when nature calls: environmental chemistry:
- Eyeing key indicators
- Rocking the heavy metals
- Killing me softly: pesticides
- Looking for and removing contaminants
- Living in a materials world: solid-state chemistry:
- Studying solid structures:
- Building crystals with unit cells
- Labeling lines and corners: Miller indices
- Three types of crystal structure:
- Simple crystal structures
- Binary crystal structures
- Complex crystals structures
- Calculating crystal formation: the Born-Haber cycle
- Bonding and other characteristics:
- Characterizing size
- Dissolving in liquids: solubility
- Encountering zero resistance: superconductivity
- Information technology: semiconductors
- Synthesizing solid structures
- Detecting crystal defects
- Nanotechnology:
- Defining nanotechnology:
- History of nanotechnology
- Science of nanotechnology
- Top-down versus bottom-up
- Nanomaterial's:
- Size and shape control
- Self-assembly and grapy goo
- Applications for nanotechnology:
- Cancer therapy
- Catalysis
- Education
- Part 5: Parts Of Tens:
- Ten nobels:
- Locating ligands: Alfred Werner
- Making ammonia: Fritz Haber
- Creating transuranium elements: McMillan and Seaborg
- Adding electronegativity: Pauling
- Preparing plastics: Ziegler and Natta
- Sandwiching compounds: Fischer and Wilkinson
- Illuminating Boron Bonds: Lipscomb
- Characterizing crystal structures: Hauptman and Karle
- Creating cryptands: Jean-Marie Lehn
- Making buckyballs
- Tools of the trade: ten instrumental techniques:
- Absorbing and transmitting light waves: Uv-vis and IR
- Catching diffracted light: XRD
- Rearranging excited atoms: XRF
- Measuring atoms in solution: ICP/AA
- Detecting secondary electrons: SEM
- Reading the criss-crossed lines: TEM
- Characterizing surface chemistry: XPS
- Evaporating materials: TGA
- Cyclic voltammetry
- Tracking electron spin: EPR
- Ten experiments:
- Turning blue: the clock reaction
- Forming carbon dioxide
- Presence of carbon dioxide
- Mimicking solubility
- Separating water into gas
- Testing conductivity of electrolyte solutions
- Lemon batteries
- Purifying hydrogen
- Colorful flames
- Making gunpowder
- Ten inorganic household products:
- Salting your food
- Bubbling with hydrogen peroxide
- Baking with bicarbonate
- Whitening with bleach
- Using ammonia in many ways
- Killing pests with borax
- Soothing babies with talc
- Cleaning with lye
- Scratching stainless steel
- Wrapping it up with aluminum foil
- Glossary
- Index.