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. Atkins
Inorganic 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. Cotton
Physical 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
Misc:
X-Ray Crystallography, G. S. Girolami
Spin Dynamics. Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, M. H. Levitt
🇵🇱 Spektroskopia molekularna, J. Sadlej
Physics (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