Cotton, F. Albert  <br/><br/>
Basic inorganic chemistry 

 - 3rd ed. 
 - New York  John Wiley & Sons  1995 
 - xii, 838p. 
<br/><br/> Table of Contents<br/><br/>Part I: First Principles<br/>1. Some Preliminaries<br/>2. Structure and Bonding in Molecules<br/>3. The Chemistry of Selected Anions<br/>4. Solvents, Solutions, Acids, and Bases<br/><br/>Part II: The Main Group Elements<br/>5. Hydrogen<br/>6. The Group IIA(2) Elements: Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, and Barium<br/>7. The Group IIIB(13) Elements: Aluminum, Gallium, Indium, and Thallium<br/>8. The Group IVB(14) Elements: Silicon, Germanium, Tin, and Lead<br/>9. The Group VB(15) Elements: Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony, and Bismuth<br/>10. The Group VIB(16) Elements: Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium, and Polonium<br/>11. The Noble Gases<br/><br/>Part III: Transition Elements <br/>12. Introduction to the Transition Elements: Ligand Field Theory<br/>13. The Elements of the Second and Third Transition Series<br/>14. The Actinide Elements<br/><br/>Part IV: Some special topics<br/>15. Organometallic Compounds<br/>16. Bioinorganic Chemistry<br/>-- 
<br/><br/> Explains the basics of inorganic chemistry with a primary emphasis on facts; then uses the student's growing factual knowledge as a foundation for discussing the important principles of periodicity in structure, bonding and reactivity. New to this updated edition: improved treatment of atomic orbitals. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780471505327 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Inorganic chemistry 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>546 COT/B