Chemistry as a Game of Molecular Construction: The Bond-Click Way [Paperback]

Chemistry as a Game of Molecular Construction: The Bond-Click Way utilizes an innovative and engaging approach to introduce students to the basic concepts and universal aspects of chemistry, with an emphasis on molecules beauty and their importance in our lives.

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Provides problems sets and solutions for each chapter

FOREWORD xv

PREFACE xvii

Comments to the Teachers/Students xvii

A Conversation on the Textbook and Its Intended Readers xx

LECTURE 1 MOLECULAR BLUES 1

1.1 Conversation on Contents of Lecture 1 1

1.2 The Universal Aspect of Chemistry 2

1.3 Love, Addiction, Psychological Balance, etc. 2

1.4 The Chemical Mechanism of Neurotransmission 8

1.5 Molecules of Pleasure, Wellness, and Pair Bonding 10

1.6 More Chemical Control 13

1.7 The Chemical Matter 15

1.8 Molecular Architecture and Its Emergent Properties 18

1.8.1 Diamond, Graphite, and More 18

1.8.2 And There Was Light& 19

1.9 Chirality, and the Magic by Which Molecules Recognize Others in Nature 21

1.10 Our Genló7