Educated at Harvard and Columbia,John McMurry has taught approximately 17,000 students in general and organic chemistry over a 30-year period. A Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University since 1980, Dr. McMurry previously spent 13 years on the faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has received numerous awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1969–71), the National Institute of Health Career Development Award (1975–80), the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1986–87), and the Max Planck Research Award (1991).Professor of Chemistry Robert C. Fay has been teaching general and inorganic chemistry at Cornell University since 1962. Known for his clear, well-organized lectures, Dr. Fay was the 1980 recipient of the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Bologna, Italy. He has been an NSF Science Faculty Fellow at the University of East Anglia and the University of Sussex, England, and a NATO/Heineman Senior Fellow at Oxford University.

• Brief Contents Chapter 0 – Chemical Tools: Experimentation and MeasurementChapter 1 – The Structure and Stability of AtomsChapter 2 – Periodicity and the Electronic Structure Atomic StructureChapter 3 – Atoms and Ionic BondsChapter 4 – Atoms and Covalent BondsChapter 5 – Covalent Bonds and Molecular StructureChapter 6 – Chemical Arithmetic: StoichiometryChapter 7 – Reactions in Aqueous SolutionChapter 8 – Thermochemistry: Chemical EnergyChapter 9 – Gases: Their Properties and BehaviorChapter 10 – Liquids, Solids, and Phase ChangesChapter 11 – Solutions and Their PropertiesChapter 12 – The Rates and Mechanisms of Chemical ReactionsChapter 13 – Chemical Equilibrium,: The Extent of Chemical ReactionsChapter 14 – Aqueous Equilibria: Acids and BasesChapter 15 – Applications of Aqueous EquilibriaChapter 16 – Thermodynamics: Entropy, Free Energy, and EquilibriumChapter 17 – ElectrochemistryChapter 18 – Hydrogen, Oxygen, and WaterChapter 19 – The Main-Group ElementsChapter 20 – Transition Elements and Coordination ChemistryChapter 21 – Metals and Solid-State MaterialsChapter 22 – Nuclear ChemistryChapter 23 – Organic and Biological Chemistry