General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts (7版)

The seventh edition of General Chemistry: The Essential Concepts continues the tradition of presenting the material that is essential to a one-year general chemistry course. It includes all the core topics that are necessary for a solid foundation in general chemistry without sacrificing depth, clarity, or rigor. The positive feedback from users over the years shows that there continues to be a strong need for a concise but thorough text containing all of the core concepts necessary for a solid foundation in general chemistry. General Chemistry covers the essential topics in the same depth and at the same level as much longer texts. The reduction in length in this text is achieved in large part by omitting chapters dedicated to descriptive chemistry and boxed essays describing specific applications of chemistry; however, many meaningful and relevant examples of descriptive and applied chemistry are included in the core chapters in the form of end-of-chapter problems.

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Atoms, Molecules, and Ions Chapter 3: Stoichiometry Chapter 4: Reactions in Aqueous Solutions Chapter 5: Gases Chapter 6: Energy Relationships in Chemical Reactions Chapter 7: The Electronic Structure of Atoms Chapter 8: The Periodic Table Chapter 9: Chemical Bonding I: The Covalent Bond Chapter 10: Chemical Bonding II: Molecular Geometry and Hybridization of Atomic Orbitals Chapter 11: Introduction to Organic Chemistry Chapter 12: Intermolecular Forces and Liquids and Solids Chapter 13: Physical Properties of Solutions Chapter 14: Chemical Kinetics Chapter 15: Chemical Equilibrium Chapter 16: Acids and Bases Chapter 17: Acid-Base Equilibria and Solubility Equilibria Chapter 18: Thermodynamics Chapter 19: Redox Reactions and Electrochemistry Chapter 20: The Chemistry of Coordination Compounds Chapter 21: Nuclear Chemistry Chapter 22: Organic Polymers—Synthetic and Natural