with problems contributed by Kate Graham, Nicholas Jones, Brian Johnson and Alicia Peterson

AB1. General Acidity and Basicity

AB2. Lewis Bases

AB3. Lewis Acids

AB4. Lewis Acid-Base Complexes

AB4b. Molecular Orbital Interactions in Lewis Acid-Base Reactions

AB5. Reversibility of the Coordinate Bond

AB6. Coordination Complexes

AB7. Proton as a Common Lewis Acid

AB8. Proton Transfer from One Basic Site to Another

AB8b. Molecular Orbital Interactions in Proton Transfers

AB9. Proton Donor Strength: pKa

AB10. Proton Donation and Structure

AB11. Factors affecting Bronsted-Lowry Acidity: Local Factors

AB12. Factors affecting Bronsted-Lowry Acidity: Distal Factors

AB13. Factors affecting basicity (proton binding)

AB14. Direction of Proton Transfer

AB15. pKa and Amino Acids

AB16. Solvent Effects

AB17. The Meaning of pKa: Product-to-Reactant Ratio and Equilibrium Constant

AB18. pH and Buffers

AB19. Application Problems

AB20.  Solutions to Selected Problems

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