Product Description

Inorganic chemistry stands alongside physical and organic chemistry as one of three central pillars of an undergraduate chemistry course. Shriver and Atkins' Inorganic Chemistry fourth edition reaffirms the position of this text at the heart of any student's chemistry education, offering more stimulation, more insights, and more support to help students grasp the fundamentals of this subject than ever before. Peter Atkins has been joined for the fourth edition by a new author team who have drawn upon their excellence in teaching and research to completely revise the book. The authors have increased the accessibility of the text by expanding explanations, using a less formal writing style, and assuming a lower level of mathematical and chemical knowledge, yet have taken care not to sacrifice the depth and rigour of previous editions. They have gone on to extend coverage of the chemistry of the elements, to provide an extensive framework on which students can build their understanding of the subject. The new edition mirrors its predecessors by seeking to inspire students. New 'Frontiers' chapters - including those on materials science, nanotechnology, biological inorganic chemistry and environmental chemistry - open up to the student topics at the forefront of contemporary research, while examples throughout, showing the relevance of inorganic chemistry to real-life situations, encourage students to engage fully with the subject. All these exciting new features and innovations are presented within a new full colour text design, to stimulate and engage students still further. Online Resource Centre: The online resource centre contains 3D rotating molecular models, illustrations from the book in electronic format, web links, and additional questions. A solutions manual is available free to adopters.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32527 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 848 pages

Review
I feel this text delivers magnificently, as indeed did its predecessor editions. It clearly develops and reinforces the basic principles discussed in the Foundations in accord with previous editions. (Rob Janes, Open University )

Many of the pedagogical features are extremely helpful to the reader. In particular, the use of worked examples do a great deal to aid the students' understanding ... We also applaud the use of Key Points to identify the main components of a particular section. (Tim Greene & Richard Walton, Exeter )

Atkins is one of our main recommended inorganic chemistry textbooks. The addition of this frontiers chapter expands even further the topics covered in the book and consequently makes it more useful. (Nancy Dervisi, Cardiff )

About the Author
Peter Atkins has been joined by a team of UK based inorganic chemists, which includes a combination of chemical educators and researchers who are at the cutting edge of their fields. This author team are perfectly placed to write a text that is accessible to students, uniformly authoritative and up-to-date in its coverage.

Author team:
Professor Peter Atkins, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Dr Tina Overton, University of Hull. Director of the Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre
Dr Jon Rourke, University of Warwick.
Professor Mark Weller, University of Southampton.
Professor Fraser Armstrong, University of Oxford.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
This is an excellent text - the new edition is a big improvement on the previous. Seems to cover everything well - the new edition has been written with more clarity. A very good book!

I owned the previous edition of this book

Im not sure what changes are made to this book from the previous edition but the last edition was just okay for an undergraduate textbook. The Shriver and Atkins series are excellent at most fields of chemistry but falls down somewhat at Inorganic chemistry with this book in particular.

The book is very good for concepts but does not describe things as well as the Housecroft Inorganic Book does. This would be more of a reference book than a good all round book to learn from.

A useful book with some room for improvement
Generally the book is good, with various theories presented simultaneously to give a good overview of the basics of inorganic chemistry. There are some mistakes though, and at places it seems shallow, i.e. not all principles are explained. In some cases the authors reserve themselves with giving some examples and not bothering to explain them, or at least show how they were derived. Yet, this results in a pretty thin and light book for such a general subject, which is always welcome.
Visually the book is pleasant to read. One very helpful feature is the presentation of the main idea before each subtopic.
A bottom-up approach of teaching principles of chemistry is used in the book, which is, in my opinion, very suitable for the subject. Still, some previous knowledge of physics and chemistry is advisable as the book is moderately advanced.