Recommended Literature

Books

General chemistry + introductory texts

• Jonathon Crowe, Tony Bradshaw
  Chemistry for the Biosciences: The Essential Concepts. 3rd edition.
  Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014.
  ISBN: 978-0199662883, Price: ~ 40 €
  
  Chemistry for the Biosciences gives a good introduction into the essential concepts in chemistry that are central to understanding biological systems.
  
  

• Richard E. Dickerson, Irvon Geis
  Chemistry, matter, and the universe.
  W.A. Benjamin Inc, Menlo Park / CA / USA, 1976.
  
  Chemistry, matter, and the universe gives an excellent, easy to understand introduction into inorganic chemistry (chapter 1-10), physical chemistry (chapter 11-17), the basics of organic chemistry (chapter 18-21) and biochemistry (chapter 22-26). Dickerson explains topics succinctly and clearly. Irving Geis did an excellent job as scientific artis in creating images that help to understand the topic. Unfortunately this book is out of print. Only used copies are available on the market.
  
  
• Peter W. Atkins, Loretta Jones.
  Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight. 7th ed.
  Macmillan, 2016.
  e-Book: ISBN:978-1319075125, Price: ~ 80 €

Organic chemistry

• David Klein
  Organic Chemistry. 3rd ed.
  John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2017.
  
  David Klein's Organic Chemistry is well structured and easily readable introduction into the world of organic chemistry. Many exercises help to understand the topics discussed in the book. The first chapter of the book ("A review of general chemistry.") can be downloaded from the Wiley website. (Link: pdf)
  The book, however, is written for students of chemistry. Many topics are beyond the scope of the introductory course of our M.Sc. programme.
  
  

• David Klein
  Organic Chemistry as a second language. First semester topics. 4 th ed.
  John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2017.         

• David Klein
  Organic Chemistry as a second language. Second semester topics. 4 th ed.
  John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2016.

Online resources

• ChemGuide - Helping you to understand chemistry
  Link: http://www.chemguide.co.uk/
• Oxford Pre-University Chemistry Course
  Link: http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/foundation.html

Online lectures

• Catherine Drennan,
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare
  5.111SC Principles of Chemical Science. Fall 2014.
  Link: https://ocw.mit.edu/