received his Ph.D. fromMichigan State University in 1956. Since then, he has been a member of the facultyof the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is now Professor of Chemistry,Emeritus. He served as Vice Chancellor for Research, and Dean of The Graduate College,from 1980 to 1986, and as Founding Director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institutefor Advanced Science and Technology from 1987 to 1993. Professor Brown has beenan Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and has been awarded a GuggenheimFellowship. In 1972 he was awarded the American Chemical Society Award for Researchin Inorganic Chemistry and received the American Chemical Society Award for DistinguishedService in the Advancement of Inorgani
Table of Contents
Introduction: Matter,Energy, and Measurement
2. Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
3. Chemical Reactions and Reaction Stoichiometry
4. Reactions in Aqueous Solution
5. Thermochemistry
6. Electronic Structure of Atoms
7. Periodic Properties of the Elements
8. Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding
9. Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories
10. Gases
11. Liquidsand IntermolecularForces
12. Solidsand Modern Materials
13. Properties of Solutions
14. Chemical Kinetics
15. Chemical Equilibrium
16. Acid—Base Equilibria
17. Additional Aspects of Aqueous Equilibria
18. Chemistry of the Environment
19. Chemical Thermodynamics
20. Electrochemistry
21. NuclearChemistry
22. Chemistry of the Nonmetals
23. Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry
24. TheChemistry of Life: Organic and Biological Chemistry
Appendices
Mathematical Operations
Properties of Water
ThermodynamicQuantities for Selected Substances at 298.15 K (25ο C)
Aqueous EquilibriumConstants
Standard ReductionPotentials at 25ο C
Answers to SelectedExercises
Answers to Go Figure
Answer to SelectedPractice Exercises
Glossary
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