Introductory Chemistry

Introductory Chemistry shows how chemistry manifests in your daily life.

The text and every feature in it are meant to help you learn and succeed in your chemistry course. Award-winning instructor and author Nivaldo Tro draws on his classroom experience to actively engage you, capture your attention with relevant applications, and extend chemistry from the laboratory to your world.

The 7th Edition in SI Units delivers a new Predict feature, Self-Assessment Quizzes, and additional end-of-chapter questions, while expanded active learning tools help you in developing problem-solving skills. An extensive diversity, equity, and inclusion review ensures the content reflects the experiences of all students.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Chemical World

Chapter 2. Measurement and Problem Solving

Chapter 3. Matter and Energy

Chapter 4. Atoms and Elements

Chapter 5. Molecules and Compounds

Chapter 6. Chemical Composition

Chapter 7. Chemical Reactions

Chapter 8. Quantities in Chemical Reactions

Chapter 9. Electrons in Atoms and the Periodic Table

Chapter 10. Chemical Bonding

Chapter 11. Gases

Chapter 12. Liquids, Solids, and Intermolecular Forces

Chapter 13. Solutions

Chapter 14. Acids and Bases

Chapter 15. Chemical Equilibrium

Chapter 16. Oxidation and Reduction

Chapter 17. Radioactivity and Nuclear Chemistry

Chapter 18. Organic Chemistry

Chapter 19. Biochemistry

About the Author

Nivaldo Tro has been teaching college chemistry since 1990 and is currently teaching at Santa Barbara City College. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University for work on developing and using optical techniques to study the adsorption and desorption of molecules to and from surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum. He then went on to the University of California at Berkeley, where he did postdoctoral research on ultrafast reaction dynamics in solution. Professor Tro has been awarded grants from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, from the Research Corporation, and from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of various processes occurring in thin adlayer films adsorbed on dielectric surfaces. Professor Tro lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Ann. In his leisure time, Professor Tro enjoys cycling, surfing, and being outdoors.