The Chemistry of the Non-Metals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Principles of structure and bonding

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   Pages 1-19

3. Simple hydrides and halides

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   Pages 20-73

4. Non-metal oxides, sulphides and their derivatives

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   Pages 74-147

5. The elements

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   Pages 148-186

6. Catenated compounds and related systems

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   Pages 187-243

7. Borazines, phosphazenes, silicones, and related systems

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   Pages 244-273

8. Erratum to: Borazines, phosphazenes, silicones, and related systems

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   Pages 283-283

9. Erratum to: Principles of structure and bonding

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   Pages 283-283

10. Erratum to: The elements

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    Pages 283-283

11. Erratum to: Non-metal oxides, sulphides and their derivatives

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    Pages 283-283

12. Back Matter

    Pages 275-281

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This book is a new attempt to interrelate the chemistry of the non-metals. In the early chapters, simple compounds of the non-metals with the halogens, hydrogen, and oxygen are surveyed, permitting a large area of chemistry to be discussed without the burden of too many facts. The structural relationships in the elemental forms of the non-metals are then used as an introduction to the catenated compounds, including the boron hydrides. In the concluding chapter, selected heteronuclear chain, ring, and cage compounds are con­ sidered. In some chapters, we have thought it useful to outline important features of a topic in relation to chemical theory, before giving a more detailed ac count of the chemistry of individual elements. The book is certainly not comprehensive and the bias in the material selected probably reflects our interest in volatile, covalent non-metal compounds. Suggestions for furt her reading are presented in two ways. A selected bibliography lists general textbooks which relate to much of our subject matter. References in the text point to review articles and to a few original papers which we consider to be of special interest. Although there are few difficult concepts in the text, the treatment may be appreciated most by students with some previous exposure to a Group by Group approach to non-metal chemistry. We have assumed an elementary knowledge of chemical periodicity, bonding theory, thermodynamics, and spectroscopic methods of structure determination.

• bonding
• boron
• chemical bond
• chemistry
• dynamics
• hydrogen
• metals
• oxygen
• paper
• silicon
• structure
• thermodynamics

• Department of Chemistry, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK

  P. Powell

• School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK

  P. L. Timms

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