The Chemical Bond In Inorganic Chemistry

DESCRIPTION:-
The bond valence model is an evolution of Pauling's electrostatic valence principle first enunciated in 1929. Recent improvements in crystal structure determination have allowed the model to become more quantitative. Unlike other models of inorganic chemical bonding, the bond valence model is simple, intuitive, quantitative and predictive, and requires only a pocket calculator. It can be used for analysing crystal structures and the conceptual modelling of local as well as extended structures. This is the first book to explore the theoretical basis of the model and to show how it can be applied to synthetic and solution chemistry. In analysing the chemistry of solids, the book emphasizes the separate roles of the constraints of chemistry and the constraints of 3-dimensional space. It reviews many of the applications of the model in physics, materials science, chemistry, mineralogy, soil science, surface science and molecular biology. The final chapter describes how the bond valence model relates to, and represents a simplification of, other models of inorganic chemical bonding.

CONTENTS:-
Preface
Prologue
1. Historical introduction

I. Theory
2. The ionic bond
3. The bond valence model

II. Chemistry
4. Anion and cation bonding strengths
5. Liquids
6. Cation coordination number
7. Hydrogen bonds
8. Electronically distorted structures
9. Physical properties of bonds

III: Solids
10. Space and space groups
11. Modelling inorganic structures
12. Lattice-induced strain

IV. Applications and implications
13. Applications
14. Chemical implications of the bond valence model

Appendices
A. Bond valence parameters
B. Space group spectra
C. Solution of the network equations
D. Cation and anion bonding strengths
E. References to the ICSD and the CSD
References
List of Symbols
Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:-
I. David Brown, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University (Emeritus).