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Dr. King has won several awards and honors, including Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry, Nato Senior Fellowship, and American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry. His book provides a summary of the most important aspects of the descriptive inorganic chemistry of the main group elements, namely all of the elements except for the d-block transition metals. Organized by element, making it easy to assimilate the important aspects of the chemistry of a particular element, many structural diagrams and chemical equations are given to illustrate structures and chemical reactions making this the first source of general information research workers will turn to. Many chapters include the following: a summary of the typical coordination number, oxidation states, bonding types, etc. found in the elements covered; important properties of the free elements including a discussion of allotropic forms; discussions of halides, oxides, oxyacids, organimetallic derivatives, and other compound types in separate sections.
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The Periodic Table effectively embraces the whole realm of
chemistry within the confines of one comparatively simple and
easily understood chart of the chemical elements. Over many years
the Periodic Table has proven to be indispensable not only to
chemists of all kinds but also to a host of other scientists,
including biologists, geologists and physicists. It is thus hardly
surprising that the Periodic Table has become one of our most
celebrated contemporary scientific icons. In the present work
various aspects of the Periodic Table that are seldom if ever
featured elsewhere are given prominence. The twelve presentations
contained herein all have a mathematical flavour because it is the
intention to highlight the often-neglected mathematical features of
the Periodic Table and several closely related topics. The book
starts out by considering predictions of what the ultimate size of
the Periodic Table will be when all of the possible artificial
chemical elements have been synthesised. It then moves on to an
examination of the nature of the periodicity extant in the Periodic
Table and some methods for the prediction of the properties of the
super-heavy elements. The Periodic Table is next explored in
various dimensions other than two. The natural clustering of the
elements into groups is studied by three different but
complementary routes, namely via the topological structures of the
groups, the self-association of the elements as evidenced by neural
network studies, and information theoretical analysis of the
behaviour of atoms. Following a detailed investigation of the
mathematical basis for the periodicity seen in atomic and molecular
spectroscopy, three separate presentations delve into many
different aspects of the group-theoretical structure of the
Periodic Table. The unusual combination of themes offered here will
appeal to all who seek a more detailed and intimate knowledge of
the Periodic Table than that available in standard texts on the
subject.
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