General Chemistry Textbook, volume 2

This is volume 2 of the textbook for General Chemistry at the University of Rochester, CHEM 131 and CHEM 132. The substance of this textbook is excerpted from the book Chemistry: Atoms First 2e which is available in Open Stax. The Open Stax materials have been put together by a consortium of diverse faculty from across the country and made freely available. The UR faculty who teach introductory Chemistry have chosen these materials for this course since they are both high quality and free of charge to students. This current version has been customized for our own curriculum so that the materials are presented in the order deemed best by the UR faculty.

Acknowledgements for the conceptual organization go to Profs. Hafensteiner, Knowles, Matson, McCamant, Olsen, Rothberg and Stanford. Assembly of the text was facilitated by the generous support of the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries’ Open Education Grant. We extend our heartfelt thanks for their funding, which enabled the invaluable contributions of a student worker, Carolyn Xu, who played a critical role in this project. Thanks too to the River Campus Libraries’ Open Educational Resources Working Group members Eileen Daly-Boas and Wendy Way. The original Chemistry textbook can be found at https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-atoms-first-2e and the preface to that work can be found in Appendix N of this modified text.