NonChem majors: Silberberg or Linus Pauling
General Chem: Theodore E. Brown or Donald A. McQuarrie
General Chem reference: Atkins
Analytical Chem: Harris
Statistics in Lab: Taylor's Error Analysis or Bevington
Organic Chem: (Clayden, Greeves, Warren) or Solomons
Organic Chem, Graduate: Audrey Miller or Grossman or Carey, Sundberg
Organic Chem Lab: Mohrig
Organic Chem Spectroscopy: Shriner
Inorganic Chem: Wulfsberg, Miessler
Inorganic Chem, MO Theory: Huheey or Cotton
MO Theory notes: Ballhausen (30 pages)
Biochemistry: Voet,Voet; Lehinger is for biologists
Recombinant, Biochem Lab: Wortman
Physical Organic Chem: Anslyn
Physical Chem Lab: Garland
Physical Chem overall: Levine or McQuarrie
Thermodynamics: Van Ness or Cengel
Statistical Mech: McQuarrie or Hill or Tolman
Quant Mech, short notes: Ballhausen
Quant Mech, Spectroscopy: Levine
Quant Mech, Physics: Shankar, Strocchi
Math: Boas Mathematical Methods
Calculus: Apostol our Courant
Physics: Ginacoli or Young,Freedman
PDE: Folland
ODE: Tennenbaum
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Physical Chemistry
Moore wrote the textbook that was standard from the 1950's to the 1980's. Chemistry hasn't changed much until computational chemistry, so it's not too outdated. Used around the world, written when people wanted to be come scientists, and not dumbed down.
Available for free to download and view at
https://archive.org/details/physicalchemistr029701mbp
Levine and McQuarrie are two authors who've have very good physical chem books. Separate books, they're both from the 1970's. In fact, each of them have written their own series of chemistry textbooks. def recommend checking out both.
Atomic Orbital Theory.
It gets a bit weird here. Physicists focus on the quantum mechanics without really relating it to the empirical data -- the spectra. Chemists get lazy on the physics and focus on the molecular spectra.
I have yet to try Szabo and Ostlund, but I've never had a bad Dover book.
Griffiths writes the intro QM book for physicists, which is not intuitive at all but has more than enough for a chemist.
McQuarrie wrote a QM book for chemists, and it skips too much detail on the physics. It's wonderfully written regardless, as a babby's version of QM.
Shankar or Sakurai have textbooks on QM that physicists love. They go a bit more on the mathematical/functional analysis than what's needed for a chemist, but both are incredibly well written.
For the spectra, nothing beatings the Herzberg. He wrote the Bible on it, and it his work comprised much of the NIST's data when it was in use. Levine has another Molecular Spectroscopy book useful in lab.
Molecular Orbital Theory.
Ballhausen, left his notes to be printed for free. It's a great no-nonsense bridge between atomic orbitals and molecular orbitals. It helps, that Ballhausen was one of the guys who really helped popularize an molecular orbital theory used today as ligand field theory.
http://authors.library.caltech.edu/25033/
If you're going to ask about Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory; Nothing, I mean nothing beats Robert L Carter's work.
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Link to Herzberg's masterpiece
Atomic Theory: A summary
https://archive.org/details/AtomicSpectraAtomicStructure
Vol I: Another summary
https://archive.org/details/molecularspectra032774mbp
Vol III: Data on Diatomic Molecules
https://archive.org/details/MolecularSpectraMolecularStructureIiiPolyatomicMolecules
Vol IV: Data on Polyatomic Molecules
https://archive.org/details/MolecularSpectraAndMolecularStructureIV.ConstantsOfDiatomicMoleculesK.P.HuberG.Herzberg
Basically, if you ever do a pchem lab and work on spectra, you're going to cite his data for the literature reference.
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