The Chemistry Library

Videos

Playlists are marked by italics.

☆ Maths of Quantum Mechanics
☆ All Chemical Elements in Order
☆ What is Chemical Potential?
☆ The Fascination of Crystals and Symmetry (A crystallography playlist)
☆ What is a Unit Cell?
☆ Chemical Crystallography
☆ Fundamentals of Spectroscopy
☆ What is the Bohr model of the atom?
☆ The Actual Reason Semiconductors Are Different From Conductors and Insulators. (+an amazing explanation of chemical bonding/ molecular orbital theory)
☆ The Alexandrite effect - practical nuclear chemistry (Color-changing f-block compounds)
☆ Molecular Orbital Theory
☆ My favorite youtube channels for studying chemistry (mostly inorgo and pchem)

Online readings

☆ chem.libretexts.org - a ginormous online library of freely available chemistry textbooks
☆ University of Bristol's Molecule of the Month project

Textbooks

General chemistry
☆ Chemistry: Molecules, Matter and Change, L. Jones, P. W. AtkinsInorganic chemistry
↳ General:
☆ Basic inorganic chemistry, F. A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, P. L. Gaus
☆ Shriver & Atkins' Inorganic Chemistry, P. W. Atkins
☆ Lanthanide and Actinide Chemistry, S. Cotton↳ Molecular symmetry:
☆ Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory, R. L. Carter
☆ Chemical Applications of Group Theory, F. A. CottonPhysical chemistry
↳ General & thermodynamics:
☆ Concepts in Physical Chemistry, P. W. Atkins
☆ Atkins' Physical Chemistry, P. W. Atkins
☆ Thermodynamics, G. N. Lewis, M. Randall
☆ Molecular Driving Forces. Statistical Thermodynamics in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Nanoscience, K. A. Dill, S. Bromberg
🇵🇱 Chemia fizyczna dla przyrodników, L. Sobczyk, A. Kisza↳ Quantum:
☆ Quantum chemistry and spectroscopy, T. Engel
🇵🇱 Atom i cząsteczka, W. Kołos, J. Sadlej↳ Electronic spectroscopy:
☆ Theoretical Spectroscopy of Transition Metal and Rare Earth Ions. From Free State to Crystal Field, M. G. Brik, C. Ma
☆ Inorganic Electronic Spectroscopy, A. B. P. Lever
☆ Spectroscopic Properties of Rare Earths, B. G. Wybourne
☆ Optical Spectra of Transparent Rare Earth Compounds, S. Hüfner↳ Crystallography:
☆ X-Ray Crystallography, G. S. Girolami
☆ The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction, C. Hammond↳ Misc:
☆ Spin Dynamics. Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, M. H. Levitt
🇵🇱 Spektroskopia molekularna, J. SadlejPhysics (as a chemistry student)
☆ Fundamentals of Physics (Parts 1-5), D. Halliday, R. Resnick, J. Walker
☆ The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Vol. 1-3), R. Feynman, R. Leighton, M. Sands
🇵🇱 Fizyka, M. Skorko

Tools

☆ symotter.org - for studying molecular symmetry
☆ The 14 3D Bravais Lattices
☆ PubChem's periodic table + a game :)
☆ point group character tables
☆ all sorts of chemistry calculators