Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part i. Inorganic ions and simple molecules in chemistry and in our environment
1. Periodic trends in fundamental properties ofatoms and simple ions
2. Monoatomic ions and their acid-basereactivity
3. Polyatomic ions and their acid-baseproperties
4. Ionic solids and precipitation reactions of hydrated ions
5. Trends in coordination equilibria
6. Principles of oxidation-reduction reactivity
7. Thermochemical analyses of reactivity trends
8. Introduction to transition metal complexes
Part ii. Inorganic substances and materials:theory and applications
9. Symmetry
10. Molecular orbital theory
11. Organometallic chemistry of the d-blockelements
12. The elements and their physical properties
13. Oxides of the elements
14. The halides, nitrides, and sulfides of theelements
15. Hydrides, alkyls, and aryls of the elements
16. Inorganic reaction mechanisms
17. Advanced topics: excited electronic states,photochemistry, and activated moleculesappendices a-banswers to selected exercisesindex