Overview
Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry II examines topics of relevance to today's inorganic chemists. The book includes biological inorganic chemistry, solid state chemistry, materials chemistry, and nanoscience. It is designed to follow, with a different viewpoint and format, the 1973 work, Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, which has received more than 2,000 citations. The new work also complements other recent Elsevier works, Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry and Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, to form a trio that covers modern inorganic chemistry. Chapters provide a valuable, long-standing scientific resource for advanced students new to an area and researchers who need further background or answers to a particular problem on the elements, their compounds, or applications. Chapters are written by teams of experts, under the guidance of the volume editors and the editors-in-chief. The articles are written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with a ready reference resource. The chapters do not provide basic data on the elements, which is available from many sources (and the original work), but instead concentrate on applications of the elements and their compounds.
