The Fontana History of Chemistry. William Brock J.

7 On the Constitution and Metamorphoses of Chemical Compounds

       The Establishment of Quantivalence

       Kekulé and the Theory of Chemical Structure

       The Triumph of Structural Theory

       8 Chemistry Applied to Arts and Manufactures

       The Alkali Industry

       Dyestuffs and Colouring

       9 Principles of Chemistry

       Sorting the Elements

       The Rare Earths

       The Inert Gases

       Manufacturing Elements

       Mendeleev’s Principles

       Conclusion

       10 On the Dissociation of Substances Dissolved in Water

       Proto-Physical Chemistry

       Raoult and van’t Hoff

       Electrochemistry from Faraday to Arrhenius

       The Ionic Theory

       The Reception of the Ionic Theory

       11 How to Teach Chemistry

       Frankland’s State-sponsored Chemistry

       Armstrong’s Heuristic Method

       Twentieth-century Developments in Teaching

       The Laboratory

       12 The Chemical News

       Forming Chemical Societies

       The Chemical Periodical

       William Crookes, Chemical Editor

       13 The Nature of the Chemical Bond

       The Lewis Atom

       Spreading the Electronic Theory

       The Pauling Bond

       14 Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry

       The Lapworth-Thiele-Robinson Tradition

       The Michael-Flürscheim- Vorlãnder Tradition

       The Electronic Theory of Organic Reactions

       Organizing the Structure of Organic Chemistry

       The Kinetics of Mechanisms

       The Spread of Physical Organic Chemistry

       Aromaticity

       The Non-classical Ion Debate

       Conclusion

       15 The Renaissance of Inorganic Chemistry

       Werner’s New Ideas

       Sidgwick’s Electronic Interpretation of Co-ordination Chemistry

       Australian Chemistry

       Australian and Japanese Chemistry

       Co-ordination Chemistry in Australia

       Nyholm’s Renaissance

       Conclusion

       16 At the Sign of the Hexagon

       Synthesis

       Industrial Chemistry

       Chemistry and the Environment

       EPILOGUE

       APPENDIX: HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS