About the Book

Chemistry of the p-block elements is an essential and integral component of the chemistry curriculum from the school level to the post-graduate level all over the world. The elements of groups 13–18 of the periodic table, also known as main group elements, differ significantly from the transition and inner transition elements.

These elements and their compounds stand out from the rest of the elements because of their wide variety of proven applications including as fertilisers, crop protection agents, semiconductors, solar cells, pesticides, LEDs, explosives, catalysts, polymers, disinfectants and medicines. Each element of the p-block is unique with respect to its properties and applications which this book brings out emphatically and with clarity.

Salient Features:
This book

• covers both fundamental chemistry and recent developments of the p-block elements from the undergraduate to post-graduate levels;
• contains three different levels of solved problems and exercises—multiple choice, concept-based questions and advanced level exercises with solutions that will help students to master the subject by self study;
• provides selected historical and interesting developments in boxes which gives the reader a fascinating perspective of the development of a field or the contributions of a distinguished scientist;
• presents recent path-breaking research developments under each element with schematic representations and references updated till 2018 for the research community;
• is lavishly complemented with figures, equations and schemes for easy comprehension;
• will be an extremely useful and authentic source book and reference book for students preparing for competitive examinations such as JEE, NEET, JAM, GATE, CSIR, GRE and SAT.