The growth of inorganic chemistry during the last fifty years has made it almost impossible for the student to assimilate all the factual information available. This book is designed to help the student begin to tackle this task by showing exactly how a chemist uses the Periodic Table toorganize and process this mass of information. After opening with a clear description of the quantum mechanical basis of the Periodic Table, the author goes on to illustrate how a modern inorganic chemist uses the basic structure of the Periodic Table to interpret a wide range of chemicalphenomena. Rather than giving the descriptive chemistries of the groups of elements, the author takes specific atomic, physical, and chemical properties and illustrates how the variations are interpreted. Thus he describes vertical trends, horizontal and diagonal trends, and then isoelectronicrelationships. The latter provides a basis for developing bonding models which account for the structures and reactivities of molecules. Finally he describes the horizontal and vertical relationships associated with the transition metals, the lanthanides, and the actinides. The basic methodologydeveloped in Essential trends in inorganic chemistry will enable the student to apply these basic principles to other problems and to assimilate more detailed accounts of modern inorganic chemistry in a structured way. D. M. P. Mingos is Sir Edward Frankland BP Professor of Inorganic Chemistry atImperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, and Dean of the Royal College of Science. He is the author of Essentials of inorganic chemistry (1995) also published by Oxford University Press and Introduction to Cluster Chemistry (with D. J. Wales).
The aim of this book is to assist the transition between school and university by providing a concise account of the concepts in inorganic chemistry which either should have been covered in a pre-university course or will be introduced in the first year. The topics have been arranged alphabetically for easy access although the specific entries are hopefully sufficiently detailed to give more than a dictionary definition.
Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry 2 provides an accessible collection of key topics for upper-level undergraduate students of inorganic chemistry. Arranged alphabetically for easy-reference this concise text provides detailed information on topics ranging from agostic interactions to Zintl isoelectronic relationships. The book is illustrated throughout, and there are notes for further reading for students who wish to gain more insight into topics of interest. As with Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry 1, its popular companion volume for first year undergraduates, Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry 2 will be invaluable to second, third and fourth year chemists for looking up unfamiliar subject areas and for revision of topics in preparation for examinations.
The liquid crystalline state may be identified as a distinct and unique state of matter which is characterised by properties which resemble those of both solids and liquids. It was first recognised in the middle of the last century through the study of nerve myelin and derivatives of cholesterol. The research in the area really gathered momentum, however, when as a result of the pioneering work of Gray in the early 1970's organic compounds exhibiting liquid crystalline properties were shown to be suitable to form the basis of display devices in the electronic products. The study of liquid crystals is truly multidisciplinary and has attached the attention of physicists, biologists, chemists, mathematicians and electronics engineers. It is therefore impossible to cover all these aspects fully in two small volumes and therefore it was decided in view of the overall title of the series to concentrate on the structural and bonding aspects of the subject. The Chapters presented in these two volumes have been organised to cover the following fundamental aspects of the subiect. The calculation of the structures of liquid crystals, an account of their dynamical properties and a discussion of computer simulations of liquid crystalline phases formed by Gay Berne mesogens. The relationships between molecular conformation and packing are analysed in some detail. The crystal structures of liquid crystal mesogens and the importance of their X ray scattering properties for characterisational purposes are discussed.
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