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Summary: Not a good book !
Review: A very blur introductory to inorganic chem. Everything just popped out of the blue without any proper explanation. Overall, buying this book does not worth the money. Cotton wrote a better book.
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Summary: Bad book !
Review: Again, Peter Atkins has proved us that he wasn't born to be a writer. This book is as bad as Physical Chemistry he wrote. Lots of errors in it and many concepts are confusing. When your Inorganic Chem class used this book, be sure to accompany this book with another excellent textbooks like Cotton's Basic Inorganic Chem.
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Summary: A Book with many errors
Review: As a Chemistry-majored student, I am sorry that you use this ALL-Bugs book as your textbook. There are many errors and miss in it. Some important topics, like D,Id,A,Ia mechniasm, this book will mislead your understanding. Although its level is very simple and basic, but you have better accompany it with other books, such as Douglas's C&C of I. Chem. It errors is cover exercise and text. So terrible!!! :(
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Summary: Good intentions but fails to deliver.
Review: Aspiring writers of inorganic textbooks face the dilemma of producing something too encyclopedic like Cotton and Wilkinson or too sparse like Miessler and Tarr. Atkins and Shriver strive for a happy balance, and I generally like the organization and how it is updated with contemporary material. However, I have to agree with earlier reviewers who deplore Atkins' poor writing and the proliferation of errors.If you're looking for a readable inorganic textbook, try Huheey. It needs some updating, and admittedly it is not error-free either, but at least you'll learn something and the prose is elegant. The chapters on coordination chemistry and periodicity, for instance, are second to none. Cotton's early editions (<3rd) were comparable to Huheey, but the deletion of "introductory material" and the unabashed glorification of organometallic chemistry at the expense of everything else render it useless for the student. If the publishers could gently tell Atkins that his talents lie elsewhere than in textbook or popular writing, then perhaps this textbook might go somewhere.
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Summary: Must agree with most of the first reviewers...
Review: Atkins presents quite a bit and there are some flaws (the group section...), but, they nice thing about this book is that it presents quite a bit on the mechanism of reactions and doesn't seem encyclopedic (see my review for Cottons "Basic Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd Edition") A very good reference. If I were going to teach a two part course in inorganic (maybe one day...) then I would have the first section be mainly based off of Cotton and Wilkinson and then the second section based off of Spessard's "Organometallic Chemistry". I must strongly say that this is a good comprehensive presentation of the subject which gets into the real down and dirty on the subject...
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Summary: Atkins slaughters another chemistry subfield.
Review: Having muddied the waters of physical chemistry, Atkins proceeds to write this low-grade inorganic text. This book is laughable next to the Huheey, Keiter et al text. This text is also far below the Miessler & Tarr text. This book is printed in large text, in black & white, with some line art. It has no more pages than M&T but is twice as thick. Its descriptions are shoddy and the explanations lacking. Do yourself a favor and pick up the Miessler and Tarr text and leave this book alone.
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Summary: Atkins slaughters another chemistry subfield.
Review: Having muddied the waters of physical chemistry, Atkins proceeds to write this low-grade inorganic text. This book is laughable next to the Huheey, Keiter et al text. This text is also far below the Miessler & Tarr text. This book is printed in large text, in black & white, with some line art. It has no more pages than M&T but is twice as thick. Its descriptions are shoddy and the explanations lacking. Do yourself a favor and pick up the Miessler and Tarr text and leave this book alone.
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Summary: This is a horrible textbook
Review: I am on amazon right now because I need to find a new textbook that is worth reading for my inorganic chemistry course. This book is garbage, it reads like an encyclopedia that was written by someone who already knows inorganic chemistry inside and out for someone who already knows inorganic chemistry inside and out. I had no idea the book was filled with errors because the book does such a bad job of explaining inorganic chemistry that I don't know what is being talked about most of the time. Avoid this book and if you can name a better inorganic chemistry textbook let me know.
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: I love this book. It is well written and full of figures, very instructive. The companion CD is very helpful. Nice the section on the Molecular Structure and Bonding. Helpful the Formula Index too. I think this book is one of the best on the Inorganic Chemistry subject. I have many other books written by P.W.Atkins: all excellent books. Thanks Prof. Atkins.
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Summary: Favorite inorganic chemistry book
Review: I totally agree with Prof. Bennardo. This is the best-written introductory textbook in inorganic chemistry I know. It may contain some minor mistakes or misprints, but this diminishes its value in no way.
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