Chemistry: A Molecular Approach

Chemistry: A Molecular Approach, Third Edition is an innovative, pedagogically driven text that explains challenging concepts in a student-oriented manner.  Nivaldo Tro creates a rigorous and accessible treatment of general chemistry in the context of relevance and the big picture. Chemistry is presented visually through multi-level images–macroscopic, molecular, and symbolic representations–helping students see the connections between the world they see around them (macroscopic), the atoms and molecules that compose the world (molecular), and the formulas they write down on paper (symbolic). The hallmarks of Dr. Tro’s problem-solving approach are reinforced through interactive media that provide students with an office-hour type of environment built around worked examples and expanded coverage on the latest developments in chemistry. Pioneering features allow students to sketch their ideas through new problems, and much more.

Nivaldo Tro is Professor of Chemistry at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, where he has been a faculty member since 1990.   He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University, for work on developing and using optical techniques to study the adsorption and desorption of molecules to and from surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum.   He then went on to the University of California at Berkeley, where he did post-doctoral research on ultra-fast reaction dynamics in solution.  Since coming to Westmont, Professor Tro has been awarded grants from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, from Research Corporation, and from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of various processes occurring in thin layer films adsorbed on dielectric surfaces.   He has been honored as Westmont's outstanding teacher of the year three times and has also received the college's outstanding researcher of the year award.   Professor Tro lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Ann, and their four children, Michael, Ali, Kyle, and Kaden.  In his leisure time, Professor Tro enjoys mountain biking, surfing, reading to his children, and being outdoors with his family.

Chapter 1     Matter, Measurement, and Problem Solving
Chapter 2     Atoms and Elements
Chapter 3     Molecules, Compounds, and Chemical Equations
Chapter 4     Chemical Quantities and Aqueous Reactions
Chapter 5     Gases
Chapter 6     Thermochemistry
Chapter 7     The Quantum-Mechanical Model of the Atom
Chapter 8     Periodic Properties of the Elements
Chapter 9     Chemical Bonding I: Lewis Theory
Chapter 10   Chemical Bonding II: Molecular Shapes, Valence Bond Theory, and Molecular Orbital Theory
Chapter 11   Liquids, Solids, and Intermolecular Forces
Chapter 12   Solutions
Chapter 13   Chemical Kinetics
Chapter 14   Chemical Equilibrium
Chapter 15   Acids and Bases
Chapter 16   Aqueous Ionic Equilibrium
Chapter 17   Free Energy and Thermodynamics
Chapter 18   Electrochemistry
Chapter 19   Radioactivity and Nuclear Chemistry
Chapter 20   Organic Chemistry
Chapter 21   Biochemistry
Chapter 22   Chemistry of the Nonmetals
Chapter 23   Metals and Metallurgy
Chapter 24   Transition Metals and Coordination Compounds