[Ben Cohen]

Hello everybody,

I'm currently a senior in High School. In my sophomore year I took AP Chem, and did the Chemistry Olympiad in both sophomore and junior years. To prep, I took the exams on the ACS website and did all the problems in Chang's Chemistry. Now that college applications are wrapping up, I want to challenge myself with a harder textbook and really enjoy doing some more difficult problems. I'm looking for a good chemistry textbook with difficult practice problems for each chapter, and I'm not really interested in organic chemistry (I'll be taking it probably my sophomore year of college, so there's no reason to do it now).

So basically what I'm asking are good suggestions for difficult general chemistry textbooks with fun / challenging problems in them. Thank you!

[Kate]

Well, a good college-level textbook is Chemistry by Housecroft. Not sure if it has difficult problems, because I only use it when I have a specific question, usually about bonding theories.

But I think general chemistry textbooks aren't that difficult, because they're general and don't cover things at depth.