Table of Contents

Chemistry and the Scientific Method; Atoms and Molecules; The Periodic Table and Chemical Periodicity; Early Quantum Theory; The Quantum Theory and Atomic Structure; Ionic Bonds and Compounds; Lewis Formulas; Prediction of Molecular Geometries; Covalent Bonding; Chemical Reactivity; Chemical Calculations; Chemical Calculations for Solutions; Properties of Gases; Thermochemistry; Liquids and Solids; Colligative Properties of Solutions; Chemical Kinetics: Rate Laws; Chemical Kinetics: Mechanisms; Chemical Equilibrium; The Properties of Acids and Bases; Buffers and the Titration of Acids and Bases; Solubility and Precipitation Reactions; Chemical Thermodynamics; Oxidation-Reduction Reactions; Electrochemistry; The Chemistry of the Transition Metals Appendices A-I

About the Author

Carole H. McQuarrie, Don McQuarrie's close collaborator, writing partner, good friend and wife of fifty years, received her PhD in biochemistry from Indiana University.