The welcome changes in GCE Advanced level syllabuses during the
last few years have prompted the writing of this new Inorganic
Chemistry which is intended to replace the book by Wood and
Holliday. This new book, like its predecessor, should also be of value
in first-year tertiary level chemistry courses. The new syllabuses have
made it possible to go much further in systematising and explaining
the facts of inorganic chemistry, and in this book the first four chapters—-the
periodic table; structure and bonding; energetics: and
acids and bases with oxidation and reduction—provide the necessary
grounding for the later chapters on the main groups, the first transition
series and the lanthanides and actinides. Although a similar
overall treatment has been adopted in all these later chapters, each
particular group or series has been treated distinctively, where
appropriate, to emphasise special characteristics or trends