For courses in two-semester general chemistry. Accurate, data-driven authorship with expanded interactivity leadsto greater student engagementUnrivaled problemsets, notable scientific accuracy and currency, and remarkable clarity havemade Chemistry: The Central Science the leading generalchemistry text for more than a decade. Trusted, innovative, and calibrated, thetext increases conceptual understanding and leads to greater student success ingeneral chemistry by building on the expertise of the dynamic author team ofleading researchers and award-winning teachers About the Author THEODORE L. BROWN received his Ph.D. fromMichigan State University in 1956. Since then, he has been a member of the facultyof the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is now Professor of Chemistry,Emeritus. He served as Vice Chancellor for Research, and Dean of The Graduate College,from 1980 to 1986, and as Founding Director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institutefor Advanced Science and Technology from 1987 to 1993. Professor Brown has beenan Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and has been awarded a GuggenheimFellowship. In 1972 he was awarded the American Chemical Society Award for Researchin Inorganic Chemistry and received the American Chemical Society Award for DistinguishedService in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry in 1993. He has been elected aFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Chemical Society.H. EUGENE LEMAY, JR., received his B.S. degreein Chemistry from Pacific Lutheran University (Washington) and his Ph.D.in Chemistryin 1966 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He then joined the facultyof the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry,Emeritus. He has enjoyed Visiting Professorships at the University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill, at the University College of Wales in Great Britain, and at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. Professor LeMay is a popular and effectiveteacher, who has taught thousands of students during more than 40 years of universityteaching. Known for the clarity of his lectures and his sense of humor, he has receivedseveral teaching awards, including the University Distinguished Teacher of the YearAward (1991) and the first Regents Teaching Award given by the State of NevadaBoard of Regents (1997).BRUCE E. BURSTEN received his Ph.D. inChemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1978. After two years as a NationalScience Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas A&M University, he joined thefaculty of The Ohio State University, where he rose to the rank of DistinguishedUniversity Professor. In 2005, he moved to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.Professor Bursten has been a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholarand an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, and he is a Fellow of both theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society.At Ohio State he has received the University Distinguished Teaching Award in 1982and 1996, the Arts and Sciences Student Council Outstanding Teaching Award in 1984,and the University Distinguished Scholar Award in 1990. He received the Spiers MemorialPrize and Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2003, and the Morley Medalof the Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society in 2005. He was Presidentof the American Chemical Society for 2008. In addition to his teaching and serviceactivities, Professor Burstens research program focuses on compounds of the transition-metaland actinide elements.CATHERINE J. MURPHY received two B.S. degrees,one in Chemistry and one in Biochemistry, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,in 1986. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in1990. She was a