BASIC INORGANIC CHEMISTRY / THIRD EDITION

F. ALBERT COTTON W. T. Doherty-Welch Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Texas A and M University College Station, Texas, USA

GEOFFREY WILKINSON Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine London SW7 2AY England

PAUL L. GAUS Professor of Chemistry The College of Wooster Wooster, Ohio, USA

JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. NEW YORK • CHICHESTER • BRISBANE • TORONTO • SINGAPORE

Contents

Parti

First Principles 1 1. Some Preliminaries 3 2. The Electronic Structure of Atoms 35 3. Structure and Bonding in Molecules 73 4. lonic Solids 125 5. The Chemistry of Selected Anions 147 6. Coordination Chemistry 165 7. Solvents, Solutions, Acids, and Bases 219 8. The Periodic Table and the Chemistry of the Elements 241

Part 2

The Main Group Elements 271 9. Hydrogen 273

10. The Group IA(1) Elements: Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, and Cesium 287

11. The Group HA(2) Elements: Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, and Barium 307

12. Boron 319 13. The Group IIIB(13) Elements: Aluminum, Gallium, Indium, and

Thallium 357 14. Carbon 369 15. The Group IVB(14) Elements: Silicon, Germanium, Tin, and

Lead 383 16. Nitrogen 399 17. The Group VB(15) Elements: Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony, and

Bismuth 417 18. Oxygen 435 19. The Group VIB(16) Elements: Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium, and

Polonium 451 20. The Halogens: Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, lodine, and

Astatine 465 21. The Noble Gases 483 22. Zinc, Cadmium, and Mercury 491

xi

XH Contents

Part 3 Transition Elements 501 23. Introduction to the Transition Elements: Ligand Field Theory 503 24. The Elements of the First Transition Series 545 25. The Elements of the Second and Third Transition Series 587 26. Scandium, Yttrium, Lanthanum, and the Lanthanides 615 27. The Actinide Elements 625

Part 4

Some Special Topics 639 28. Metal Carbonyls and Other Transition Metal Compiexes with

ir-Acceptor (ir-Acid) Ligands 641 29. Organometallic Compounds 667 30. Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions of Organometallic

Compounds 703 31. Bioinorganic Chemistry 729 32. The Inorganic Solid State 757

Appendix I Aspects of Symmetry and Point Groups 785 Appendix IIA Table of the Hydrogen-Like Atomic Orbital Wave

Functions 811 Appendix IIB lonization Enthalpies of the Elements 813 Appendix HC lonic Radii 815 Appendix HD Electron Attachment Enthalpies of Selected

Elements 819 Appendix IIE A Comparison of Electronegativity Values (Pauling Units)

from Four Sources 821

Glossary 823 Index 833