University General Chemistry

Unlike traditional undergraduate chemistry textbooks, this book provides a common platform for an integrated approach into the principles and practice of chemistry and chemical science. More emphasis is thus placed not only on the interplay amongst the various traditional divisions of chemistry, such as organic, inorganic, physical and so on but also on the interfaces which chemistry today shares with other sciences. The text is therefore useful not only to students of pure and applied sciences but also to scholars of engineering, medicine and agriculture. The context of the book is arranged under the broad divisions of structure, energy and transformations. The book opens with a discussion on the nature and scope of chemical science. Chapters 2 to 8 cover structure and properties of systems, Chapters 9 to 12 are on thermodynamics and equilibria and deal with energy, and Chapters 13 to 17 are devoted to transformation in inorganic and organic systems, although they do include a few structural aspects. Chapter 18 comprehensively combines biological, medical and chemical sciences through the discussion of the living cell, and Chapter 19 introduces nuclear chemistry. All through, the emphasis has thus been on the chemist's microscopic approach.