本书内容涉及无机化学、分析化学、环境化学、环境工程、有机化学、物理化学、材料化学等。本书内容丰富，取材有代表性和前沿性，也是一本难得的化学专业英语资料，适合综合性大学、师范大学及其他本科院校化学化工专业的师生使用或参考。

1 What Is Chemistry?

2 The Atomic Theory and The Periodic Table

3 Nomenclature of Inorganic Compounds (I)

4 Nomenclature of Inorganic Compounds (II)

5 Acids and Bases

6 More about Chemistry as the Useful Science

7 Introdudion to Analytical Chemistry

8 Classification of Analytical Methods

9 Errors in Chemical Analysis

10 Qualitative Analyses for Metallic Elements

11 Atomic Absorption and Fluorescence Analytical Techniques

12 Capillary Electrophoresis and Capillary Electrochromatogrophy

13 Determining the Authenticily of Gemstones Using Roman Spedroscopy

14 Molecular Fluorescence Spectroscopy

15 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy

16 Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry

17 Water Treatment

18 Nomenclature of Saturated Hydrocarbons and Their Radicals

19 Nomenclature of Unsaturated Compounds and Univalent Radicals

20 Nomenclature of Substituted Aromatic Compounds and their Radicals 

21 The Benzilic Acid Rearrangement

22 Cycloaddition Reactions of C60

23 Olefin Metathesis and Its Catalyst Systems

24 The First Law of Thermodynamics 

25 Spontaneily, Enthalpy and Entropy

26 Some Commercial Voltaic Cells

27 Empirical Approaches to Kinetics

28 Applications of Nuclear Structure

29 Introductions to Green Chemistry

30 Catalysis

31 Kinetic—Molecular Theory

32 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002

Appendix 1化学诺贝尔奖获得者及其贡献(1901—2005)

Appendix 2化学元素表

Appendix 3实用英语构词法

Appendix 4无机化学术语

Appendix 5有机化学术语

Appendix 6分析化学术语

Appendix 7有机化合物的命名

Appendix 8醇、酚、醚、醛、酮、酸、酯、酐、腈的命名

Appendix 9常用有机词尾英汉对照表

Appendix 10物理化学术语汉英对照

Appendix 11仪器及方法名称中英文对照

Appendix 12科技术语缩略语

Appendix 13某些结构的读法

Appendix 14普通玻璃仪器名称