Wafaa Hosny

The author has tried to describe minimum chemical facts and concepts that are necessary to understand advanced inorganic chemistry. All the elements except super heavy ones have been discovered and theoretical frameworks for the bonding, structure and reaction constructed. The main purposes of inorganic chemistry in near future will be the syntheses of the compounds with unexpected bonding modes and structures, and discoveries of novel reactions and physical properties of new compounds. More than ten million organic compounds are known at present and infinite number of inorganic compounds are likely to be synthesized by the combination of all the elements. Recently, really epoch making compounds such as complex copper oxides have been with high-temperature superconductivity and a new carbon allotrope C60 discovered and it is widely recognized that very active research efforts are being devoted to the study of these compounds. By the discoveries of new compounds, new empirical laws are proposed and new theories are established to explain the bondings, structures, reactions, and physical properties.