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Winter, Mark J., author.

Chemical bonding / Mark J. Winter.

Second edition.

Oxford, United States : Oxford University Press, [2016]

©2016

viii, 119 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Chemical bonding, which underlies the structure and reactivity of all molecules, is explained beautifully clearly and succinctly in this primer, making it the perfect text to introduce students to this fundamental aspect of chemistry.

Oxford chemistry primers

Chemical bonds.

Includes bibliographical references (page 117) and index.

Note continued: 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The VSEPR model -- 4.3. Molecules containing single bonds only -- 4.4. Molecules containing multiple bonds -- 4.5. VSEPR and more than six electron pairs -- 4.6.d-Block metal systems -- 4.7. Summary -- 4.8. Exercises and problems -- 5. Hybrid orbital description of bonding -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Hydrogen -- 5.3. Hybridization: linear systems -- 5.4. Hybridization: trigonal systems -- 5.5. Hybridization: tetrahedral systems -- 5.6. Hybridization: use of d-orbitals -- 5.7. Benzene -- 5.8. Summary -- 5.9. Exercises and problems -- 6. The molecular orbital approach and polyatomic molecules -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Triatomic molecules EX2 -- 6.3. Tetraatomic molecules EX3 -- 6.4. Five-and six-centred molecular orbitals -- 6.5. Summary -- 6.6. Exercises and problems.

QD461 .W63 2016

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0198700954

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