Student Solutions Manual for Inorganic Chemistry

Catherine E. Housecroft is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland.  She is the author of a number of textbooks and has had teaching experience in the UK, Switzerland, South Africa and the USA. She has published around 500 research papers and reviews, and her current research interests include aspects of coordination chemistry associated with solar energy conversion, solid state lighting, water oxidation, porous coordination polymers and networks and hierarchical assemblies.

Basic concepts: atoms
Basic concepts: molecules
Introduction to molecular symmetry
Experimental techniques
Bonding in polyatomic molecules
Structures and energetics of metallic and ionic solids
Acids, bases and ions in aqueous solution
Reduction and oxidation
Non-aqueous media
Hydrogen
Group 1: the alkali metals
The group 2 metals
The group 13 elements
The group 14 elements
The group 15 elements
The group 16 elements
The group 17 elements
The group 18 elements
d-Block metal chemistry: general considerations
d-Block metal chemistry: coordination complexes
d-Block metal chemistry: the first row metals
d-Block metal chemistry: the heavier metals
Organometallic compounds of s- and p-block elements
Organometallic compounds of d-block elements
Catalysis and some industrial processes
d-Block metal complexes: reaction mechanisms
The f-block metals: lanthanoids and actinoids
Inorganic materials and nanotechnology
The trace metals of life

Appendices

Answers to non-descriptive problems

Index