Collections:Living Textbooks of Chemistry

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The Living Textbooks of Chemistry is a collection of chemistry textbooks made available through ChemEd Collaborative (this wiki). Using the collaborative and open environment of a wiki allow the content of the textbook to evolve over time.

The Journal of Chemical Education, a ChemEd DL partner, has been tagged as "the living textbook of chemistry". Through the use of ChemEd Collaborative, this vision comes closer into focus.

Our initial offering is a general chemistry textbook, "Chemistry" by John W. Moore, William G. Davies, and Ronald W. Collins. This book was originally published in 1978. It has been scanned and is undergoing conversion. Chapter 1 is currently available as an example.

We invite contributions to this collection. Such contributions may include links to other open online chemistry textbooks.

Quantum States of Atoms and Molecules by David Hanson, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, Theresa Julia Zielinski, Monmouth University, NJ, Erica Harvey, Fairmont State College, WV, and Bob Sweeney, Fairmont State College, WV. This book originally appeared as a "a living textbook of chemistry" at Quantum States of Atoms and Moleculesin 2005.

This book provides an introduction to Quantum Mechanics as it relates to spectroscopy, the electronic structure of atoms and molecules, and molecular properties. It also provides opportunities not found in conventional textbooks. These opportunities are for students to develop skills in information processing, critical thinking or analytical reasoning, and problem solving that are so important for success in this course, college, and careers.The material is presented at the level of a one-semester undergraduate or graduate course that can be part of a two-semester sequence in Physical Chemistry.