عنوان

Inorganic chemistry for dummies /

شابک

1118217942 (paperback)

شابک

9781118217948 (paperback)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Inorganic chemistry for dummies /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Michael L. Matson and Alvin W. Orbaek

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xx, 360 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

عنوان فروست

--For dummies

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Includes index

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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

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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 --

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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 --

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Book Description: 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 For Dummies is the approachable, hands-on guide you can trust for fast, easy learning. Inorganic Chemistry For Dummies features a thorough introduction to the study of the synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. In plain English, it explains the principles of inorganic chemistry and includes worked-out problems to enhance your understanding of the key theories and concepts of the field. Presents information in an effective and straightforward manner; - Covers topics you'll encounter in a typical inorganic chemistry course; - Provides plain-English explanations of complicated concepts. If you're pursuing a career as a nurse, doctor, or engineer or a lifelong learner looking to make sense of this fascinating subject, Inorganic Chemistry For Dummies is the quick and painless way to master inorganic chemistry

موضوع مستند نشده

Chemistry, Inorganic

موضوع مستند نشده

Chemistry, Inorganic, Popular works

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Matson, Michael L.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Orbaek, Alvin W.

تاريخ عمليات

20140430114709.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y