• Provide students with the background knowledge to comprehend the exciting advances in modern inorganic chemical research.
• Covers many topics that are not usually treated in textbooks.
• Point groups and space groups are introduced, and symmetry concepts are utilized in the discussion of molecular systems and crystal structures.
• "Computational Chemistry" and "Supramolecular Structural Chemistry" are included to reflect their increasing importance in contemporary research.
• Promotes an understanding of modern chemical crystallography among the scientific community.

Readership: Senior undergraduate and graduate students in inorganic chemistry, structural chemistry, condensed matter physics, materials science, and crystallography.

Wai-Kee Li, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Gong-Du Zhou, Department of Chemistry, Peking University, and Thomas Mak, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

"In summary, the readers will find the many aspects of this book - a comprehensive textbook about chemical bonds, group theory and crystallography, descriptive and supramolecular inorganic chemistry - to be very useful. It is an important text for teaching inorganic chemistry." - Coordination Chemistry Reviews

"This book should be on the shelves of all laboratories or libraries that support teaching or research that relies upon structural inorganic chemistry." - Crystallography Reviews

Part I
Fundamentals of Bonding Theory
1: Introduction to Quantum Theory
2: The Electronic Structure of Atoms
3: Covalent Bonding in Molecules
4: Chemical Bonding in Condensed Phases
5: Computational Chemistry
Part II
Symmetry in Chemistry
6: Symmetry and Elements of Group Theory
7: Application of Group Theory to Molecular Systems
8: Bonding in Coordination Compounds
9: Symmetry in Crystals
10: Basic Inorganic Crystal Structures and Materials
Part III
Structural Chemistry of Selected Elements
11: Structural Chemistry of Hydrogen
12: Structural Chemistry of Alkali and Alkali-Earth Metals
13: Structural Chemistry of Group 13 Elements
14: Structural Chemistry of Group 14 Elements
15: Structural Chemistry of Group 15 Elements
16: Structural Chemistry of Group 16 Elements
17: Structural Chemistry of Group 17 and Group 18 Elements
18: Structural Chemistry of Rare-Earth Elements
19: Metal-Metal Bonds and Transition-Metal Clusters
20: Supramolecular Structural Chemistry