CHEMICAL BONDING - DIALOG

Understanding the nature of the chemical bond is the key to understanding all chemistry, be it inorganic, physical, organic or biochemistry. This book takes the form of a question and answer tutorial and explores the fundamental concepts of chemical bonding.

List of contents

Partial table of contents:
 
What is the Nature of the Chemical Bond?
 
What is the Basis of the Model We Use to Describe the Orbital Structure of Molecules?
 
Why Does the Molecular Orbital Model Often Give the Wrong Products of Dissociation?
 
How Important are D Orbitals in Main Group Chemistry?
 
What is the Metallic Bond?
 
Is the Electronic Description of Solids Just Like That for Large Molecules?
 
What is the Origin of Hückel's Rule?
 
What is the Origin of Steric Repulsion?
 
What is Behind the VSEPR Scheme?
 
Epilogue.
 
Index.

Product details

• Authors: Burdett, J. K. Burdett, Jeremy K Burdett, Jeremy K. Burdett, Jeremy K. (The University of Chicago) Burdett, Jk Burdett, BURDETT JEREMY K
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.1997
• EAN: 9780471971306
• ISBN: 978-0-471-97130-6
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Inorganic Chemistry: A Textbook Series; Inorganic Chemistry (Paperback; Inorganic Chemistry: A Textbook Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry; Chemie, Physikalische organische Chemie, chemistry, chemische Bindung, Allg. Chemie, Physical Organic Chemistry