A lecture course focusing on coordination chemistry and complexes. Contemporary theories of bonding and structure are treated rigorously. Preparations, chemical and redox reactions (including mechanisms), magnetism, spectroscopy and applications of coordination compounds are treated. A general survey of transition metals and their descriptive chemistry are also included.
The course aims at providing junior student with a solid background in coordination chemistry, with emphasis on transition metal elements and their coordination compounds. Both theory and descriptive chemistry are involved, at a balanced approach, without mathematical rigor.
At the end of this course students should be able to;
6. Use VBT, CFT, MOT and AOM in predicting structural and conformational preferences among coordination compounds
Text:
Gary L. Miessler and Donald A. Tarr, Inorganic Chemistry, 4th ed., Pearson Prentice Hall, USA and other countries, 2011.
References:
1) Purcell and Kutz, Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry, WB Saunders, Philadelphia .
2) Cotton and Wilkinson, Basic Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd ed., J. Wiley, NY, (1995).
3) Inorganic Chemistry, second edition, D. F. Shriver, P. W. Atkins, and C. H. Langford; W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, 1994. 913 pp.
4) W. L. Jolly; Modern Inorganic Chemistry, second edition, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1991. 655 pp.
5) Complexes and First Row Transition Elements, David Nicholls, Macmillan.
6) Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, fifth edition, F. A. Cotton and G. Wilkinson; Wiley-Interscience, New York.
7) Shriver and Atkins' Inorganic Chemistry, 5th ed., Freeman, NY, 2010.
Activity | Percent (%) |
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1st | 20% |
2nd | 20% |
Final | 50% |
Student Activities + Home works | 10% |