Ebook: Inorganic Structural Chemistry

This book concentrates on general principles and laws, featuring both traditional foundations and modern developments. Coverage includes a description of crystal structures; thermodynamic and kinetic stability; Van der Waals radii; compounds with complex ions; modern bond theory and much more. Contains a significant amount of illustrative models and problem sets. Content: 1. Introduction -- 2. Description of chemical structures -- 3. Symmetry -- 4. Polymorphism and phase transitions -- 5. Chemical bonding and lattice energy -- 6. The effective size of atoms -- 7. Ionic compounds -- 8. Molecular structures I : compounds of main group elements -- 9. Molecular structures II : compounds of transition metals -- 10. Molecular orbital theory and chemical bonding in solids -- 11. The element structures of the nonmetals -- 12. Diamond-like structures -- 13. Polyanionic and polycationic compounds. Zintl phases -- 14. Packings of spheres. Metal structures -- 15. The sphere-packing principle for compounds -- 16. Linked polyhedra -- 17. Packings of spheres with occupied interstices Abstract: Inorganic Structural Chemistry describes the structural principles of inorganic molecules and solids using traditional concepts as well as modern approaches. It includes the systematic ordering of the recognized structure types, relationships amongst them, and the link between structure and properties. Read more...