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Inorganic chemistry is concerned with the chemistry of over an hundred elements, forming compounds whose stability ranges from that of mountains and minerals to species with lifetimes of less than a millisecond. Clearly, if the subject is to be more than a vast catalogue of apparently unrelated facts, we must seek a theoretical foundation which will enable us to rationalise and relate as many observations as possible. From this point of view, the development of ideas of chemical periodicity (by Mendeleyev and others) during the latter half of the nineteenth century stands as the starting point of theoretical inorganic chemistry. The first periodic table was drawn up on the basis experimental observations; soon after the introduction of quantum theories of the atom, it was shown by Rutherford and Bohr that the same table could be derived from the electronic structure of the individual elements. Following this demonstration, all theories of chemistry have been based more or less rigorously on the quantum theory of matter.
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Williams, A.F. (1979). Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Theory. In: A Theoretical Approach to Inorganic Chemistry . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67117-3_1
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