Inorganic Chemistry 5th Edition

This text was recommended by an internet Chemistry site and they were right on with their rating of this text as the best in the English language. The authors have devoted an immense amount of time to make the material interesting and well organized. The diagrams and pictures are clear and colored. The tables and charts are clear. There are boxes that go into depth about certain topics. The text is 1200 pages and is packed with excellent information about the finer details of the elements, covalent bonds, and the quantum mechanics of molecular orbitals.I hold a B.S. in Chemistry from U.C. Berkeley but went into medicine for 35 years. Now retired I find my desire for chemistry is stronger than ever and I am thoroughly enjoying this text. It is for the upper division under graduate who has had general chemistry and the basic organic chemistry courses. I do not remember much of Calculus so some of the problems I can not do, but it is not essential. The material is so well explained that the math can be left alone.I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about how chemistry works at the atomic and molecular level.

This edition somewhat lacks the clarity that made the Second so excellent. The Second Edition could be read and largely assimilated by the undergraduate. However, the book compensates with industrially important and leading-edge topics, which will make it more useful to the graduate (postgraduate) student and industrial chemist, but slightly less useful as an undergraduate text when compared with the earlier editions - there will be a temptation to use it as a reference rather than assimilate the whole. However, it remains an excellent textbook for the learning undergraduate.

The book is for my daughter's studies, and she is happy with it. I am very happy with the speed and the mode of the delivery. Thank you.

A really thick book, but worth it's weight!

Very comprehensive and will take a bit of time

It was pretty much exactly as described. It was definitley used and had a few rough spots, but otherwise a good purchase.

Excellent book!!

Awesome book