Chemical principles : the quest for insight / Peter Atkins, Loretta Jones, Leroy Laverman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamentals_ -- The Quantum World -- Quantum Mechanics in Action: Atoms -- Chemical Bonds -- MAJOR TECHNIQUE 1 Infrared Spectroscopy -- Molecular Shape and Structure -- MAJOR TECHNIQUE 2 Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy -- The Properties of Gases -- Liquids and Solids -- MAJOR TECHNIQUE 3 X-Ray Diffraction -- Inorganic Materials -- Thermodynamics: the First Law -- Thermodynamics: the Second and Third Laws -- Physical Equilibria -- MAJOR TECHNIQUE 4 Chromatography -- Chemical Equilibria -- Acids and Bases -- Aqueous Equilibria -- Electrochemistry -- Chemical Kinetics -- MAJOR TECHNIQUE 5 Computation -- The ELEMENTS: the Main-Group ELEMENTS -- THE ELEMENTS: THE d-BLOCK -- Nuclear Chemistry -- Organic Chemistry I: the Hydrocarbons -- MAJOR TECHNIQUE 6 Mass Spectrometry -- Organic Chemistry II: Polymers and Biological Compounds -- MAJOR TECHNIQUE 7 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.