·        The coverage of ‘basic concepts’ has been split into 2 chapters (Chapters 1 and 2)

·         Updated coverage of recent advances in basic inorganic chemistry

·        improved coverage of the use group theory in infrared spectroscopy (Chapter 4), of charge transfer bands and UV-VIS spectroscopy (Chapter 21), of term symbols and microstates (Chapter 21), and of magnetism (Chapter 21)

·        new sections on superacids (Chapter 9) and carbon nanotubes (Chapter 28)

·        Many new self-study exercises have been added to the descriptive chemistry chapters

·        New Experimental Techniques boxes

·        Updated Applications and Resources, environmental and biological boxes.  In selected boxes, photographs have been included for the first time