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- The first introductory text to take a truly integrated approach in explaining the fundamentals of chemistry
- Paints a realistic picture of chemical structure and reactivity, using an orbital-based approach to understanding reactions, and with clear curly-arrow mechanistic detail throughout
- Fully illustrated with the authors' purpose-drawn figures, to help students visualise even the most challenging of concepts
- The book's two-part structure allows flexibility of use: Part I lays down the core of the subject, while Part II describes a series of topics, which can be studied relatively independently of one another, and selected to fit a particular course
- Numerous concepts are illustrated with fully cross-referenced custom-developed online modules, enabling students to develop an understanding through active learning
- In-text examples and extensive end of chapter questions encourage hands-on learning to help students master the often challenging but essential quantitative aspects of the subject
- The Online Resource Centre features a range of additional resources for both students and registered adopters of the book
Why do certain substances react together in the way that they do? What determines the shape of molecules? And how can we predict whether a particular reaction will happen at all?
Such questions lie at the heart of chemistry - the science of understanding the composition of substances, their reactions, and properties. While often fragmented into the strands of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry, a full understanding of chemistry - and establishing answers to questions such as those above - can only be gained by seeing the subject as a single, unified whole.
Chemical Structure and Reactivity: an integrated approach rises to the challenge of depicting the reality of chemistry. Offering a fresh approach to undergraduate teaching, it depicts the subject as a seamless discipline, showing how inorganic, organic and physical concepts can be blended together to achieve the common goal of understanding chemical systems.
The book adopts a two-part structure allowing complete flexibility of use: a series of core concepts covered in Part 1 leads into a suite of further topics in Part 2, from which the instructor can select to match their particular course.
With a lively and engaging writing style augmented throughout by purpose-drawn illustrations, and custom-developed online support,
Chemical Structure and Reactivity makes taking an integrated approach in the teaching of chemistry a realistic proposition for the first time.
Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre to accompany Chemical Structure and Reactivity features the following resources for registered adopters of the book and their students:
Registered adopters:
- Figures from the book in electronic format;
- Worked solutions to all end of chapter exercises
- A testbank of multiple-choice questions keyed to the book
For students:
- Multimedia content, linked to the book, enabling students to investigate the concepts and phenomena presented in the book in a fully interactive
wayReadership: Undergraduates studying introductory courses in organic, inorganic and physical chemistry; these might be students on a chemistry degree programme or related degree programmes such as biochemistry and natural sciences.
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James Keeler, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, and Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
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"This is the most innovative and impressive undergraduate chemistry textbook I have been exposed to in years; it is quite outstanding in its creative and imaginative approach.
The authors appear to have stood back and re-thought the whole approach to teaching chemistry at this level. The logical and innovative order in which material is developed and explained is all the more impressive when we take account of the fact that rigour and attention to detail is not compromised." - Dr David McGarvey, Keele University "The objective of the authors, to break down the barriers used to manage the teaching of chemistry, is laudable, and they achieve their aim, particularly in the first section of the book. They have assembled a teaching resource that is refreshing in its style and rigorous in its content." - Education in Chemistry, 2009
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Part I
1: Molecular structures and the states of matter
2: Electrons in atoms
3: Electrons in molecules: diatomics
4: Electrons in molecules: polyatomics
5: Bonding in solids
6: Thermodynamics and the Second Law
7: Trends in bonding
8: Reactions: the role of orbitals
9: Organic Chemistry 1: functional groups
10: The rates of reactions
Part II
11: Spectroscopy
12: Organic chemistry 2: three-dimensional shapes
13: Organic chemistry 3: reactions of p systems
14: Main group chemistry
15: Transition metals
16: Quantum mechanics, energy levels and spectroscopy
17: Chemical thermodynamics
18: Chemical kinetics
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20: Dimensions, units and some key mathematical ideas
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