... reactions Bioinorganic chemistry bridges biochemistry and inorganic chemistry, and environmental chemistry includes the study of both inorganic and organic compounds As can be imagined, the inorganic. .. WHAT IS NORCANlC CHEMISTRY? If organic chemistry is defined as the chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds and their derivatives, inorganic chemistry can be described broadly as the chemistry of "everything... some of the interconnections between inorganic chemistry and other fields of chemistry The remainder of this chapter is devoted to the origins of inorganic chemistry, from the creation of the