Inorganic Chemistry Syllabus
Spring 2008 Quarter
chapter |
concepts |
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| 1 | 6 | Historical development of the definitions of acids and bases, Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, Lewis, Solvent System, and Frontier Orbital concepts of acids and bases, hard and soft acids/bases, measuring acid/base strengths, inductive solvent, and steric effects on acid/base strengths, strength of oxyacids, |
| 2 | 6 & 9 | acid/base strength in non-aqueous solvents, history and development of coordination compounds, types of ligands, IUPAC nomenclature |
| 3 | 7 | coordination numbers, lattice points, unit cell, closest packing, simple crystal structures |
| 4 | 7 | Bravais lattices, groupings of crystalline solids (metals, alloys, ionics), energetics of crystal formation, Born-Haber cycle, lattice enthalpy |
| 5 | 7 | band theory of solids applied to metals, semi-metals, semiconductors, and superconductors and the effect of temperature on their conductivity |
| 9 & 10 | isomerism in coordination compounds, valence bond theory, crystal field theory and ligand field theory to understand bonding in coordination compounds | |
| 6 | 10 | molecular orbital diagrams to show sigma and pi bonding in octahedral and tetrahedral complexes, ligand flied stabilization energy of high spin-low spin complexes, spectrochemical series, Lewis pi acids and bases, magnetic susceptibility measurements |
| 7 | 10 & 11 | tetragonal distortions, Jahn-Teller effect, MO diagrams for square planer complexes, Correlation Diagrams, Tanabe-Sugano diagrams |
| 8 | 11 | Correlating Tanabe-Sugano diagrams with the electronic spectra of octahedral and tetrahedral transition metal complexes, determining octahedral splitting energy from spectra, charge transfer spectra |
Winter 2008 Quarter
chapter |
concepts |
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| 1 | 2 | periodic table, structure of the atom, uncertainty principle, quantum numbers, nodes, shapes of orbitals, electron configurations, shielding, periodic trends |
| 2 | 3 | Lewis dot structures, resonance, formal charge, VSEPR model, electronegativity, bond and molecular polarity, hydrogen bonding |
| 4 | symmetry elements, symmetry operations | |
| 3 | 4 | classification of molecules into point groups, matrices, matrix representation of point groups |
| 4 | 4 | matrix representation of point groups, character tables, reducible representation of basis sets, IR and Raman activity of vibrational modes |
| 5 | Career Week Activities | |
| 6 | 5 | mid-term exam + molecular orbital diagrams of homonuclear diatomics |
| 7 | 5 | overlap of various atomic orbitals, details of MO diagrams, mixing, PES |
| 8 | 5 | MO diagrams of heteronuclear diatomic and polyatomic molecules |
| 9 | 5 | MO diagrams using hybridization of the central atom |
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