Chemistry is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. The textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. The book also includes a number of innovative features, including interactive exercises and real-world applications, designed to enhance student learning.

Coverage and scope
Our Chemistry textbook adheres to the scope and sequence of most general chemistry courses nationwide. We strive to make chemistry, as a discipline, interesting and accessible to students. With this objective in mind, the content of this textbook has been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from fundamental to more advanced concepts of chemical science. Topics are introduced within the context of familiar experiences whenever possible, treated with an appropriate rigor to satisfy the intellect of the learner, and reinforced in subsequent discussions of related content. The organization and pedagogical features were developed and vetted with feedback from chemistry educators dedicated to the project.

Chapter 1: Essential Ideas
Chapter 2: Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
Chapter 3: Composition of Substances and Solutions
Chapter 4: Stoichiometry of Chemical Reactions
Chapter 5: Thermochemistry
Chapter 6: Electronic Structures and Periodic Properties of Elements
Chapter 7: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry
Chapter 8: Advanced Theories of Covalent Bonding
Chapter 9: Gases
Chapter 10: Liquids and Solids
Chapter 11: Solutions and Colloids
Chapter 12: Kinetics
Chapter 13: Fundamental Equilibrium Concepts
Chapter 14: Acid-Base Equilibria
Chapter 15: Equilibria of Other Reaction Classes
Chapter 16: Thermodynamics
Chapter 17: Electrochemistry
Chapter 18: Representative Metals, Metalloids, and Nonmetals
Chapter 19: Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry
Chapter 20: Organic Chemistry
Chapter 21: Nuclear Chemistry

Pedagogical foundation and features
Throughout Chemistry, you will find features that draw the students into scientific inquiry by taking selected topics a step further. Students and educators alike will appreciate discussions in these feature boxes.

Chemistry in Everyday Life ties chemistry concepts to everyday issues and real-world applications of science that students encounter in their lives. Topics include cell phones, solar thermal energy power plants, plastics recycling, and measuring blood pressure.
How Sciences Interconnect feature boxes discuss chemistry in context of its interconnectedness with other scientific disciplines. Topics include neurotransmitters, greenhouse gases and climate change, and proteins and enzymes.
Portrait of a Chemist presents a short bio and an introduction to the work of prominent figures from history and present day so that students can see the “face” of contributors in this field as well as science in action.

Enhanced lecture slides for Ch. 1-17 of the OpenStax Chemistry textbook. Ch. 1-6 are in their final version. Ch. 7-17 are still a rough copy, but the final versions will be uploaded as they are completed.

The purpose of this resource is to observe seasonal migration patterns, feeding habits, and nesting behavior of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) in North and Central America. All students will learn about hummingbird natural history and ecology. Students will learn how to identify and age male and female Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and to observe migration and feeding behavior. Students will learn how to make connections among hummingbird behavior and weather, climate, food availability, seasonality, photoperiod (day length), and other environmental factors.

Explore an active area of research in optical physics: producing designer pulse shapes to achieve specific purposes, such as breaking apart a molecule. Carefully create the perfect shaped pulse to break apart a molecule by individually manipulating the colors of light that make up a pulse.

This 12-minute video lesson discusses acetic acid to acetyl chloride mechanism. They can be generalized to forming any acid halide from a carboxylic acid. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 69 of 73].

This 13-minute video lesson considers the addition of Water (Acid-Catalyzed) Mechanism. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 29 of 73].

This 9-minute video lesson looks at the properties of alcohol. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 46 of 73].

This 7-minute video lesson looks at naming alcohols. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 45 of 73].

This 8-minute video lesson provides an introduction to aldehyde. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 61 of 73].

This 12-minute video lesson looks at Aldol Reaction. It is the final video in the Organic Chemistry playlist. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 73 of 73].

This 9-minute video lesson looks at amide formation from acyl chloride. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 72 of 73].

This 9-minute video lesson looks at carboxylic Aacid Derivatives: amides, anhydrides, esters and acyl chlorides. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 70 of 73].

This 6-minute video lesson continues to discuss amine naming. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 57 of 73].

This 7-minute video lesson presents an introduction to amine naming. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 56 of 73].

This 13-minute video lesson looks at the bromination of benzene catalyzed by iron bromide. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 55 of 73].

This 11-minute video lesson looks at the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog System for Naming Enantiomers. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 22 of 73].

This 9-minute video lesson provides an introduction to carboxylic acid acid. [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 66 of 73].

This 5-minute video lesson looks at Carboxylic Acid naming [Organic Chemistry playlist: Lesson 67 of 73].