Dover General Chemistry

Lo considero un libro imprescindible para enseñar con fundamento la Química General y, aunque el libro tiene 50 años contiene datos útiles que no han sido después usados por libros mas modernos, por ejemplo sobre la fuerza de los oxiácidos.

packed with tons of info to prepare me for uni :) great

I am currently a chemistry student in an honors general chemistry course at an Ivy League university, and I can say with certitude that this is an excellent resource for any chemistry student (with a decent knowledge of calculus), especially considering the price. I don't think it best to use as a default textbook for a modern general chemistry course (Oxtoby and Atkins are both very good; I especially like Atkins because I find the explanations superior to Oxtoby, though if you want the more advanced text you should go with Oxtoby, but be aware that it incorporates a lot of physics in its explanations) but as a supplementary resource it is wonderful. Stylistically, it is very easy to read and everything is explained very clearly. You can tell Pauling's audience was his students. I have a great deal of interest in chemistry and I appreciate the history that it provides on all of the experiments and discoveries, which I find to be lacking in most modern sources, like the aforementioned Oxtoby and Atkins. It is exceptional in that it covers so many diverse topics, which is wonderful because general chemistry is so broad, and in particular has a lot of material on biochemistry and quantum chemistry, which makes a lot of sense considering Pauling's achievements in those fields. Its age does show in the some of the notation. For instance, it seems to defer to using formal rather than molar concentrations, which I had never seen previously (they are however, essentially the same thing; formal simply ignores the species in solution and only looks at the initial number of moles of species present, while molar takes into account species present). I just wish there were a solutions manual somewhere.

Il y a exactement 50 ans, le très excellent Monsieur Bachot, Professeur de Physique et Chimie au Lycée du Parc à Lyon, cette année là chargé entre autres de la classe de Mathématiques supérieures où j'avais été admis, nous demandait d'acheter(une édition antérieure de)ce livre, malgré son coût, et bien qu'il ne corresponde pas vraiment au contenu et encore moins à l'approche du programme officiel. 21 mois plus tard, reçu au concours d'entrée à l'Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, mais totalement impécunieux, je devais à mon grand regret revendre mon Linus Pauling. Je l'ai maintenant retrouvé, avec une grande joie. Pour quelqu'un qui n'a pas ouvert un livre de chimie depuis près d'un demi siècle, l'ouvrage de Linus Pauling est un véritable bain de jouvence. A lire et relire, absolument.

This is an unabriged Dover publication of the 1970 (3rd edition) of Linus Pauling's book for 1st year college students. I like it for its thoroughly modern approach in skilfully meshing atomic structure and physical chemistry with the more orthodox inorganic treatment. The notable bonus is the inclusion of biochemistry and nuclear chemistry, though organic chemistry is rather compressed into one of the 26 chapters - a litle surprising for a Nobel Laureate who is deservedly famous in this area. There are 16 useful appendices and a detailed index. Cost-wise, an absolute bargain.