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Contents
Table A Pauling Electronegativities of the Elements front endleaf | 7 |
Monoatomic lons and Their AcidBase Reactivity | 55 |
Polyatomic lons and Their AcidBase Properties WITH APPLICATIONS | 89 |
lonic Solids and Precipitation Reactions of Hydrated lons WITH | 149 |
Trends in Coordination Equilibria WITH APPLICATIONS TO BIOCHEMISTRY | 191 |
Principles of OxidationReduction Reactivity WITH APPLICATIONS TO CHEMICAL | 243 |
Thermochemical Analyses of Reactivity Trends | 315 |
Introduction to Transition Metal Complexes WITH APPLICATIONS | 357 |
Organometallic Chemistry of the dBlock Elements WITH APPLICATIONS | 531 |
The Elements and Their Physical Properties WITH APPLICATIONS | 595 |
Oxides of the Elements WITH APPLICATIONS TO GEOCHEMISTRY ENVIRONMENTAL | 657 |
The Halides Nitrides and Sulfides of the Elements WITH APPLICATIONS | 729 |
Hydrides Alkyls and Aryls of the Elements WITH APPLICATIONS | 789 |
Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms WITH APPLICATIONS TO MATERIALS SCIENCE | 839 |
Excited Electronic States Photochemistry | 879 |
Discovery Laboratory Experiments for Part I | 927 |
Common terms and phrases
acid activity agent atoms base basic block bond calculate carbon cations Chapter charge chelating Chem chemical chemistry complex compounds containing coordination coordination number covalent crystal d-block donor atoms effects electron electron configuration electronegativity elements energy equation example Exercises expected field Figure formula four function geometry give given hard hence hydrated hydrogen important increasing Inorganic insoluble involved ionic ionization known lattice less Lewis ligands listed metal ions molecules named negative Note occur octahedral orbitals organic overlap oxidation oxidation number oxo anions oxygen pairs period positive possible potential precipitate predict present principle properties radius reaction redox reducing region rules salts shown soft solid soluble solution solvents species stable strong strongly structure symmetry Table temperature trends units values