★This series is an outstanding collection of chemistry education books launched by the Italian Chemical Society, aiming to provide guidance for students dedicated to chemistry research and offer suggestions to chemistry teachers. It adopts an innovative interactive teaching method inspired by chemistry competitions and the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), serving as an effective supplement to traditional school textbooks. Through conceptual explanations (but not merely staying at the conceptual level) and a large number of exercises of various difficulties (with solutions and annotations), it promotes students' learning.
★This series is suitable for:
- Students who wish to consolidate basic chemistry concepts
- Students aiming to excel in organic chemistry and pursue further studies in this field
- Students preparing for chemistry competitions
- Although this book is mainly targeted at high school students, it is also applicable to college students as it helps them understand and consolidate basic chemistry concepts. It is particularly useful for the first few years of chemistry science degree programs and other scientific directions that include the teaching of basic chemistry knowledge, thanks to its theoretical explanations and the exercise sections with solutions and annotations.
- Teachers in high schools and technical colleges, providing them with a practical tool to help students analyze organic chemistry topics conceptually through exercises, thereby enhancing teaching efficiency and interest.

The series includes 3 titles:
Organic Chemistry
Fundamentals of Chemistry
International Chemistry Olympiad

The book through a collection of exercises carried out, taken from the various editions of the Chemistry Games of the Italian Chemical Society, accompanies the reader in learning the basic fundamentals of the chemical sciences, especially stimulating secondary school students of the second, and first, grades to train for the Chemistry Games and Avogadro Games competitions. For each chapter, a brief theoretical description presents the main topics covered, and then allows the reader to focus on the exercises, accompanied by solutions and a commentary to aid in understanding.

The book explores at a fundamental level the structure of the atom, the Periodic Table and periodic properties, chemical bonding with Lewis structures and VSEPR Theory, stoichiometry of reactions and elements of electrochemistry.

Luigi Falciola is a full professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Milan. His research interests lie in the field of electroanalytical chemistry for the determination of emerging analytes with the aid of sensors based on innovative materials.
He has been president of the Analytical Electrochemistry Division of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), secretary-treasurer of the Italian Section of the Royal Society of Chemistry, secretary-treasurer of the Electrochemistry Division, and secretary-treasurer and then president of the Lombardy Section of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI). For years, he has been involved in promoting chemical sciences in civil society and, since 2009, he has been collaborating with the SCI in organizing the Chemistry Games and Olympics. He is currently a member of the National Organizing Committee of the Chemistry Games and the Avogadro Games, for secondary and primary schools respectively. He is also coordinator of the Cannizzaro Games, dedicated to primary school students.

Giovanni Di Liberto is a researcher at the Department of Materials Science at the University of Milan Bicocca. His research focuses on theoretical and computational chemistry applied to the study of complex chemical systems involved in electrochemistry and chemical catalysis. He has received numerous awards, including some promoted by various divisions and interdivisional groups of the Italian Chemical Society, such as Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Catalysis. He is a lecturer on the university and academic initial training course for secondary school teachers for class A034, and is the orientation coordinator for the degree course in Chemical Sciences and Technologies at the University of Milan Bicocca. He collaborates in the training of participants in the Chemistry Games and Olympics.

Valentina Pifferi is an associate professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on the electrochemical characterization of innovative materials and their application as sensors for the electroanalysis of environmental contaminants and molecules of medical interest.
She has collaborated in the training of participants in the Chemistry Games and Olympics and has been involved in promoting chemical sciences in civil society for many years. She is a teacher on the initial teacher training course, referred to in Prime Ministerial Decree 04/08/2023 and Ministerial Decree 59/2017, for secondary schools for classes A034 and A050. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Sensors Group of the Italian Chemical Society.

Wafa Aidli, after obtaining a master's degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Tunis (Tunisia), she obtained a PhD in Chemical Sciences in joint supervision between El Manar University and the University of Milan, with a thesis on the development of electrochemical sensors for environmental monitoring. She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Milan, where she is involved in the development of wearable electrochemical biosensors for monitoring biomedical parameters. Since 2021, she has been an active member of the Italian Chemical Society in the Analytical Chemistry Division.

Elisabetta Inico is a research fellow at the Department of Materials Science at the University of Milan Bicocca, where she is involved in the computational study of catalysts for energy transition. In 2023, she obtained her master's degree in Chemical Sciences from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Milan, with a thesis focusing on the synthesis and characterization of electroanalytical sensors for the determination of emerging pollutants.

Clara Saetta is a doctoral student in Chemical Sciences at the University of Milan Bicocca in the Department of Materials Science. Her research project focuses on the computational study of catalytic reactions related to the energy transition. She graduated from the same university with a degree in Chemical Science and Technology with a thesis on the computational study of single-atom catalysts for hydrogen evolution.