For those who haven't been frequenting meta, this post has been suggested numerous times. The intention is to collect together good questions with good answers which can be used as duplicate targets. While this is obviously a mammoth task, there is no stipulation that it is (or ever will be) exhaustive. I invite everybody to contribute to this - if you come across a good question (with a good answer) on the main site, add it here!
Contents
The organisation is not quite finalised, this is what I think works out well (glanced through university course structure) but we can always see how things go and adapt. Perhaps the glaring omission here is stoichiometry.
- Inorganic chemistry
- Nomenclature
- Atomic properties and trends
- Acid-base theories
- Theories of molecular bonding
- Main group chemistry
- Transition metal and coordination chemistry
- Solid state chemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Nomenclature
- Spectrometry
- Stereochemistry and conformational analysis
- Mechanisms and mechanistic detail
- Reactions and synthesis
- Physical chemistry
- Thermodynamics
- Chemical kinetics
- Quantum mechanics and spectroscopy
- Molecular symmetry
- Statistical mechanics
- Electronic structure theory
- Basic concepts