The topics covered in this course are covered in the textbooks listed below. Besides the textbooks every effort is made to include relevant current literature in the classes. In order to get these references you have to attend the classes! A few however are listed here Relevant Current Literature.

TEXTBOOKS

Inorganic Chemistry
                by Shriver, D.F. Atkins, P.W.
                ELBS 4th Edition or a later edition would be fine.

This book now sports a website. Check www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/ichem4e

Inorganic Chemistry
                by James E. Huheey , Ellen Lieter, Keith Leiter
                Harper International Edition.
 

Good books for reference

Chemistry of Elements
                Greenwood and Earnshaw
                Maxwell Macmillan

Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
                Cottton and Wilkinson
Valence
            by C. A. Coulson
            Clarendon Press

Nature of the chemical Bond
            by Linus Pauling
            Cornell University Press

Orbital Interactions in Chemistry
                by Albright, T., Burdett, J.K., and Wangbho
                Wiley

The Organic Chemists Book of Orbitals
            Jorgensen and Salem
            Academic Press