Concise Inorganic Chemistry 5 Edition

This is surely the best and most interesting introduction to inorganic chemistry that I have come across. If this does not get you interested in the subject, I don't know what will.I have used it to prepare for entrance exams, for college and university courses and for general reading. It starts with an overview of basic principles of bonding and trends in the periodic table. The rest of the book is then devoted to the discussion of individual groups of elements. But this is no drab discussion where paragraphs with the title 'uses of X' where X is an element, abound. Lee instead focuses on the most essential and interesting properties of the elements. As the title indicated, the discussion is concise, but never compromises on the essentials. The applications of inorganic chemical science which Lee chooses are most interesting and pervade all aspects of our material existence. He gives due importance to special topics such as Pollution, Bioinorganic Chemistry, The Atomic Nucleus and Spectra. He mixes the right blend of theory and application in this work. In fact, its such a pleasure to read this book, that it actually makes good bedtime reading! Its one of those very few technical books which you can read casually. Many 'other' chemists find inorganic chemistry boring. However, an understanding of its basic principles is of paramount importance to a study of any other chemical dicipline, not to mention its inherently interesting ideas, and its application to the material world. This book shows you how.

Apart from providing the basic understanding of the concepts, this book emphasizes on the language used. The book is written in a simple language which is easy to understand. Students can use this book right after 10th grade. Concepts of Periodicity has been explained really well in this book,

The "s-block" and "p-block" elements are the best part of the book. The concepts of these topics have been covered comprehensively and cater to the demands for IIT JEE, AIEEE and other state level engineering examination preparation.

One of the best parts of the foreign author's book is that the authenticity of the matter is impeccable and is therefore held high even as a reference book.

A must read books for chemistry students......you'll get everything you want in this book to understand chemistry in better way....student like me who never understood chemistry was able to not only understand chemistry but to solve the numric based and iit jee problems from other books and packages of reputed coaching institutes (like fiit jee,narayana,etc) after reading this book....

» better than its other edition which is for iit jee.
» better than other books of inorganic chemistry.
» text easy to understand with good illustrations or sketch and diagrams.
» recomended for students preaparing for cbse exams.

*not much problems for practice but still a must buy book.

#if you want to understand concepts in inorganic chemistry in every detail and in an easy and understandable way go for this book without any doubt.

This book on inorganic chemistry is the best i have seen. I am myself a chemistry student and i think the book is good enough to be kept as a reference for ANY confusion. Readers will find it extremely ineresting, full of minute details (for example, the s,p,d, and f orbitals have been explained WITH their full form, namely Sharp, Principal,Diffused and Fundamental.) The book is recommended for beforehand studying for higher secondary school and competitive exams. THE ONLY DRAWBACK IS THAT IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MANY PRACTICE PROBLEMS,ONLY ABOUT 20 FOR EACH CHAPTER.

this book is very good and very helpful for every student who is studying chemistry. It helps the students a lot whether it be an undergraduate, a postgraduate or a doctrate student. I recommend this book to everyone.
I want to congratulate John Lee for this book and I am very thankful to him from the bottom of my heart on behalf of every student.
thank you, John
may god bless you !