According to Wikipedia, surface chemistry “can be roughly defined as the study of chemical reactions at interfaces…it is of particular importance to the field of heterogeneous catalysis.” This introductory text was written by Dr. Roger M. Nix of the School of Biological & Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. It is divided into [...]
Free Online Advanced Topics Textbooks
This group of online advanced chemistry textbooks cover topics that I was unsure which aspect of chemistry they belonged to or I only found a single textbook for. All of these textbooks would appear to be graduate level chemistry text books.
These textbooks have been written by chemists from all over the world who are firmly embracing the open textbook concept by making their materials available for free online. I hope they continue their efforts so that more students can afford to study the sciences and students can more readily access materials on advanced topics in chemistry.
My science education came to a screeching halt once I hit Organic Chemistry, so please accept my apologies for not being able to better categorize these materials.
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List of Free Online Advanced Topics Textbooks
An Introduction to Surface Chemistry
Basis Set Exchange
Database of basis sets from the Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Chemical Transport Models
Atmospheric Chemistry Professor Daniel J. Jacob of Harvard University is offering his graduate level Chemical Transport Models textbook online for all chemistry students. The textbook is divided into 5 downloadable PDF files which correspond to each of the chapters – The Continuity Equations, The Transport Operator, The Chemistry Operator, Continuity Equation for Aerosols and Deposition [...]
ICP Operations, a Guide for new ICP Users
Free online guide for anyone “operating and preparing samples and standards for measurement using ICP.” Written by Dr. Paul Gaines who is currently the senior chemist and CEO of Inorganic Ventures.
Lectures on Inverse Modeling
Atmospheric Chemistry Professor Daniel J. Jacob of Harvard University may refer to these materials as lecture notes, but they are more well-written than many textbooks. The material presented includes: Bayes’ Theorem, Inverse Problem for Scalers, Vector-Matrix Tools for Inverse Modeling, Inverse Problem for Vectors, Kalman Filter (“3-D Var”), Adjoint Approach (“4-D Var”) and Observing System [...]
Ligand Substitution Processes
I have no idea how timely this book written in 1966 may be but for anyone interested…from the abstract this text covers, “an approach to classification of ligand substitution reactions that is adapted to what seem to have emerged as the characteristic features of these reactions and is susceptible to operational tests.”