inorganic chemistry
(noun)
The chemistry of the elements (including carbon) and those compounds that do not contain carbon.
Examples of inorganic chemistry in the following topics:
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The Study of Chemistry
- Chemistry is the study of matter and the chemical reactions between substances.
- Chemistry has the answer to these questions and many more.
- Inorganic chemistry studies substances that do not contain carbon.
- Organic chemistry studies carbon-based substances.
- Biophysical chemistry is the application of physical chemistry in a biological context.
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Naming Hydrates
- "Hydrate" is a term used in inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry to indicate that a substance contains loosely bonded water.
- In organic chemistry, hydrates tend to be rarer.
- Generate the chemical formula and systematic name of a given inorganic hydrate
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Chemical Analysis
- Coordination complexes and their chemistry can be used to analyze the composition of a solution by precipitation or colorimetric analysis.
- These methods are called classical qualitative inorganic analysis.
- Classical qualitative inorganic analysis is a method of analytical chemistry that seeks to find the elemental compositions of inorganic compounds.
- It is applicable to both organic compounds and inorganic compound.
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Solubility Product Principle and Qualitative Analysis
- Classical qualitative inorganic analysis is a method of analytical chemistry that seeks to find the elemental composition of inorganic compounds.
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Determining Atomic Structures by X-Ray Crystallography
- Substances including inorganic salts and minerals, semiconductors, and organic and biological compounds can form crystals under suitable and specific conditions.
- X-ray crystallography is a powerful tool that has broad applications in the determination of the structures of both organic and inorganic compounds.
- Throughout the history of chemistry and biochemistry, x-ray crystallography has been one of the most important methods in helping scientists understand the atomic structure and bonding.
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Naming Familiar Inorganic Compounds
- Familiar inorganic and organic compounds are often known by their common, or "trivial," names.
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Introduction to Chemical Reactivity
- Organic chemistry encompasses a very large number of compounds ( many millions ), and our previous discussion and illustrations have focused on their structural characteristics.
- Now that we can recognize these actors ( compounds ), we turn to the roles they are inclined to play in the scientific drama staged by the multitude of chemical reactions that define organic chemistry.
- It may be organic or inorganic; small or large; gas, liquid or solid.
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Oxidation States of Phosphorus Compounds
- Organophosphorus compounds having phosphorus oxidation states ranging from –3 to +5, as shown in the following table, are well known (some simple inorganic compounds are displayed in green).
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Addition Reactions of Alkenes
- A large number of reagents, both inorganic and organic, have been found to add to this functional group, and in this section we shall review many of these reactions.
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Historical Background
- Second it cast doubt on the widely held doctrine of vitalism, which maintained that all living organisms were endowed with a vital or life force that rendered them and their component parts uniquely different from ordinary "inorganic" matter.
- Thus, strongly heating organic substances such as carbohydrates and proteins yielded water, ammonia and carbonaceous solids (all inorganic), with loss of the vial essence.
- Wöhler's experiment was acclaimed as the first conversion of an inorganic substance into an organic compound.
- Less than twenty years later, the German chemist Adolf Kolbe provided an even more convincing synthesis of organic from inorganic substances.
- Perkin, a student (age 18) at the Royal College of Chemistry in London, attempted its synthesis in his home laboratory.