本书是用英语编写的基础化学教材。之所以冠名为“General Chemistry”,是因为在教学改革不断深化的形势下,要求有一门课程能够承担**学生进入化学科学领域的重要职责。 “General Chemistry”是化学的总纲,在这本书上体现了这种认识和责任。大学一年级的学生不仅可以从这门课中得到对化学科学的系统化认识,更重要的是得到对化学研究科学方法的感知。
本书系统介绍了包括动力学、热力学、原子结构和周期表、化学键和分子结构、化学平衡等内容。纵观整部教材,编者在教学方法及理念上吸收了国外众多**教材的长处。如:将近代科学史贯穿于整部教材之中,使学生在学习过程中把握化学发展的脉络;灌输化学研究的科学理念;强调对实验结果归纳总结的重要性,明确指出理论模型是人的创造,其任务是对实验结果进行解释和演绎;在发展过程中必须经过不断的修正,才能使其趋近客观事实。这些均有助于提高学生的科学素养,也是在双语教学中特别应向先进的教学体系学习的。相信此书的出版将会推进化学教学体系的科学化进程。
基础课中引入双语教学会对学生的英语能力,特别是专业英语的能力产生极大的促进作用。
本书可作为大学教

Chapter1 Gases,GasPhaseEquilibria
1.1 ThePerfect-gasLaw
1.2 ThePartialPressuresofComponentsofaGasMixture
1.3 TheKineticMolecularTheoryofGases
1.4 DiffusionandEffusion
1.5 RealGases
1.6 TheScientificMethod
1.7 ChemicalEquilibriumingaseousstate
1.8 LeChtelier’sPrinciple
1.9 HeterogeneousEquilibria
Chapter2 ChemicalThermodynamics
2.1 FirstLawofThermodynamics
2.2 TheIsothermalExpansionofanIdealGas
2.3 EnthalpyandEnthalpyChange
2.4 SecondLawofThermodynamics
2.5 GibbsFreeEnergyandSpontaneity
2.6 InterpretationofFreeEnergy
Chapter3 ChemicalKinetics
3.1 ReactionRates3
3.2 RateLawsandReactionOrder
3.3 DeterminingtheRateLaw
3.4 TemperatureandRate:AModelforChemicalKinetic
3.5 ReactionMechanisms
3.6 Catalysis
Chapter4 AtomicStructureandthePeriodicTableoftheElements
4.1 Dalton’sAtomicTheory2
4.2 BasicCompositionsofAtoms
4.3 TheBirthoftheQuantumTheory
4.4 TheAtomicSpectrumofHydrogenandBohrTheor
4.5 TheQuantumMechanicalDescriptionofHydrogenAtom
4.6 PolyelectronicAtoms
4.7 ElectronConfigurationsofAtoms
4.8 ElectronDiagramsofAtoms
4.9 ThePeriodicTable
4.10 PeriodicTrendsinAtomicProperties
Chapter5 TheChemicalBond
5.1 TypesofChemicalBonds
5.2 IonicBond
5.3 CovalentBond
5.4 DescribingtheValenceElectronArrangement
5.5 PredictingtheMolecularStructure:TheVSEPRModel
5.6 ValenceBondTheory:HybridOrbitals
5.7 PolarcovalentBond
5.8 BondEnergy
5.9 MolecularOrbitalTheory
5.10 Orbitals:HumanInventions
Chapter6 LiquidandSolid
6.1 IntermolecularForces
6.2 ThePropertiesofLiquidState
6.3 Solidstate
6.4 Lattices
6.5 MetallicCrystals
6.6 IonicCrystals
6.7 CovalentNetworkSolids:CarbonandSilicon
6.8 PhaseTransitions
Chapter7 Acid-BaseEquilibria
7.1 Acid-Baseconcept
7.2 WaterasanAcidandaBase
7.3 RelativeStrengthsofAcidsandBases
7.4 ThepHScale
7.5 CalculatingthepHofWeakAcidSolutions
7.6 Acid-BasePropertiesofSalts
7.7 AcidSolutionsinWhichWaterContributestotheH+Concentration
7.8 CommonIonEffect
7.9 BufferedSolutions
7.10 Acid-BaseTitration
Chapter8 Solutions
8.1 Solubility
8.2 SolubilityEquilibria
8.3 ComplicationsInherentinSolubilityCalculations
8.4 ComplexIonEquilibria
8.5 ColligativeProperties
8.6 ColloidalSolution
Chapter9 Electrochemistry
9.1 ElectrochemicalCells
9.2 StandardReductionPotentials
9.3 ElectrochemistryandThermodynamics
9.4 DependenceoftheCellPotentialonConcentration
9.5 Batteries
9.6 Corrosion
9.7 Electrolysis
9.8 CommercialElectrolyticProcesses
Chapter10 TheMain-GroupElements
Chapter11 TransitionMetalsandCoordinationChemistry
AppendixA MathematicalProcedures
AppendixB SpectralAnalysis
AppendixC NamingSimpleCompounds
AppendixD SelectedThermodynamicData
AppendixE EquilibriumConstantsandStandardReductionPotentials
AppendixF
GLOSSARY
ReferenceMaterials