Bibliography

Required books

  • Lanna Rerry et al., Chemistry for use with the IB Diploma Programme (Standard/Higher Level), Pearson-Heinemann, ISBN SL:978 0 7339 9375 6 / HL: 978 0 7339 9380 0
    (B    ooks written for IB students covering all the Core syllabus in detail. The main textbooks used by the students)

  • Geoff Neuss, Chemistry for the IB Diploma, IB Study Guide 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-915142-3 (a study guide very useful for revision)

  • Lab Logbook Designed for the IB Diploma Programme, Association for Concurrent Learning,
    (a logbook helping students to keep organized notes during experimental investigations and self-assessment forms for self- or peer-evaluation of the students lab reports on all required criteria.) Avalaible from the IB department.

Recommended books
IB Diploma specific

  • John Green and Sadru Damji, Chemistry, 3rd edition, IBID Press, ISBN 978 1 876659 08 0 (A book written for IB students covering all the syllabus in detail.)

  • Geoffrey Neuss, IB Diploma Programme: Chemistry Course Companion, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-915146-2 (A book written for IB students covering briefly all the syllabus.)

General textbooks

  • Chemistry, 6th edition, Steven S. Zumdahl, Susan A. Zumdahl, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN 0-618-63982-9 (a well know Chemistry textbook with many illustrations, examples and exercises)

  • M. Clugston, R. Flemming, Advanced Chemistry, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-914633-0 (mainly used by high level students, can also be useful to standard level students)

Additional library resources

  • CRC handbook of chemistry and physics : a ready-Reference book of Chemical and Physical data, editor - in - chief David R. Lide.

  • Chemistry: the central science, Brown, LeMay, Bursten, Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall.

  • Advanced organic chemistry : Reactions, mechanisms, and structure, Jerry March, NY : John Wiley & Sons.

  • Organic chemistry, Robert Thornton Morrison, Robert Neilson Boyd, New Jersey : Prentice Hall.

  • A - level chemistry, E. N. Ramsden, Ellenborough House : Stanley Thornes.

  • Chemistry data book, J. G. Stark, H. G. Wallace, London : John Murray.

  • Chemistry, Raymond Chang, New York : McGraw - Hill.

  • Chemistry : Study guide, Bob McDuell, London : Letts Educational.

  • Advanced chemistry through diagrams : A level, Michael Lewis, Oxford : Oxford University Press.

  • 3000 solved problems in organic chemistry, Estelle K. Meislich, Herbert Meislich, Jacob Sharefkin, Hightstone : McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Journals
1. Science
2. Scientific American
3. New Scientist
4. Science in School
5. Chemical Education