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Coordination Chemistry — all 9 parts
Part 1: Foundations, Nomenclature & Structural Isomerism14 sections · free extract: Werner’s two valencesPart 2: Stereochemistry & Isomer Counting6 sections · free extract: Geometrical isomerism — cis/trans and fac/merPart 3: Valence Bond & Crystal Field Theory8 sections · free extract: Valence bond theory — hybridisation and the dative…Part 4: Ligand Field & Molecular Orbital Theory10 sections · free extract: The evidence that the bonding is covalentPart 5: Electronic Spectra10 sections · free extract: Electron–electron repulsion: the term nobody drewPart 6: Magnetism9 sections · free extract: Diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism — and…Part 7: Stability & Thermodynamics9 sections · free extract: Stepwise constants Kn, overall constants βn, and…Part 8: Reaction Mechanisms & Kinetics9 sections · free extract: K.1 Stable is not the same word as inertPart 9: Applications & Special Topics12 sections · free extract: L.1 Oxygen transport and storage — a spin-state…
Reaction Mechanisms — all 9 parts
Part 1: Foundations — How Mechanisms Work10 sections · free extract: The curly arrow — what it means and what makes one…Part 2: Reactive Intermediates I — Carbocations & Carbanions10 sections · free extract: Geometry, hybridisation, and where the empty…Part 3: Reactive Intermediates II — Radicals, Carbenes, Nitrenes & Arynes10 sections · free extract: Radical structure, geometry and stabilityPart 4: Nucleophilic Substitution at Saturated Carbon9 sections · free extract: The SN2 transition state, backside attack and…Part 5: Elimination Reactions10 sections · free extract: The E2 mechanism and its rate lawPart 6: Additions to C=C and C≡C10 sections · free extract: The electrophilic addition mechanism and its…Part 7: Carbonyl & Acyl Mechanisms9 sections · free extract: Nucleophilic addition to C=O — trajectory…Part 8: Aromatic Substitution Mechanisms9 sections · free extract: The two-step mechanism, the arenium ion, and the…Part 9: Determining a Mechanism — The Physical Organic Toolkit12 sections · free extract: Rate laws — what the order in each component does…
Quantum Chemistry — all 9 parts
Part 1: Foundations — Why Quantum Mechanics Exists9 sections · free extract: Blackbody radiation and the ultraviolet catastrophePart 2: Operators, Eigenvalues & the Schrödinger Equation9 sections · free extract: Operators, operator algebra and linearityPart 3: Exactly Solvable Systems I — Boxes, Steps & Barriers9 sections · free extract: The infinite square well: solving it from the…Part 4: Exactly Solvable Systems II — Oscillator & Rotor9 sections · free extract: The classical oscillator, the parabolic…Part 5: The Hydrogen Atom10 sections · free extract: The two-body problem and the reduced massPart 6: Approximation Methods10 sections · free extract: The variation theorem, stated and provedPart 7: Many-Electron Atoms9 sections · free extract: Electron spin: what forced it on us, and how it is…Part 8: Molecular Quantum Mechanics9 sections · free extract: The molecular Hamiltonian, the BO separation and…Part 9: Computation, Spectroscopy & the Quantum Toolkit15 sections · free extract: Basis sets — the vocabulary the molecule is…
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