Catherine E. Housecroft is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of a number of textbooks and has had teaching experience in the UK, Switzerland, South Africa and the USA. She has published around 500 research papers and reviews, and her current research interests include aspects of coordination chemistry associated with solar energy conversion, solid state lighting, water oxidation, porous coordination polymers and networks and hierarchical assemblies.

1. Basic concepts: atoms
2. Basic concepts: molecules
3. Introduction to molecular symmetry
4. Experimental techniques
5. Bonding in polyatomic molecules
6. Structures and energetics of metallic and ionic solids
7. Acids, bases and ions in aqueous solution
8. Reduction and oxidation
9. Non-aqueous media
10. Hydrogen
11. Group 1: the alkali metals
12. The group 2 metals
13. The group 13 elements
14. The group 14 elements
15. The group 15 elements
16. The group 16 elements
17. The group 17 elements
18. The group 18 elements
19. d-Block metal chemistry: general considerations
20. d-Block metal chemistry: coordination complexes
21. d-Block metal chemistry: the first row metals
22. d-Block metal chemistry: the heavier metals
23. Organometallic compounds of s- and p-block elements
24. Organometallic compounds of d-block elements
25. Catalysis and some industrial processes
26. d-Block metal complexes: reaction mechanisms
27. The f-block metals: lanthanoids and actinoids
28. Inorganic materials and nanotechnology
29. The trace metals of life

Appendices

Answers to non-descriptive problems

Index