Principles of Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry: A Primer on How to Analyze Derived Amino Acid Sequences

Inorganic Chemistry: The Periodic Table and the World We Live In
Metal Cations and Oxo Anions in Aqueous Solution
Ionic Solids and Precipitation Reactions of Hydrated Ions
Oxides and Polynuclear Oxo Anions of the Elements: Their Physical, Chemical, and Environmental Properties
Oxidation-Reduction Chemistry of the Elements
Properties of the Elements Themselves
Coordination Compounds and the Lewis Acid-Base Concept
The Hard and Soft Acid-Base (HSAB) Principle and Its Applications
The Halides, Nitrides, and Sulfides of the Elements
The Hydrides and Organometallic Derivatives of the Elements
The Underlying Reasons for Periodic Trends
Summary: Applying Theory to Chemical Reality
Laboratory Experiments in the Principles of Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry

This unique text is ingeniously organized by class of compound and by property or reaction type, not group by group or element by element (which requires students to memorize isolated facts).