Abstract
AbstractIn this brief review, it is attempted to point up the importance of chemical equilibria in structural inorganic chemistry and to show how the kind and yield of various molecules may be treated quantitatively. Because of the importance of kinetic control in organic chemistry and because the chemistry of carbon compounds is by far the most advanced branch of general and descriptive chemistry, preparative inorganic chemists have often overemphasized the value of reaction‐mechanism theory to their studies and have thereby neglected the powerful quantitative approach of thermodynamics which may be used in equilibrated systems. The general theorems for treating in terms of small molecular segments the multitude of equilibria present in families of compounds are surveyed superficially with the hope that the interested reader will turn to the original papers for details. Not only physical‐inorganic chemists, but also those interested solely in preparative work can advantageously employ the theoretical ideas discussed.
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