Inorganic Chemistry Syllabus
Fall 2009 Quarter
chapter |
concepts |
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| 9 | 10 | bonding models for octahedral coordination compounds (valence bond method, crystal field method, ligand field method), MO diagrams for octahedral complexes, hydration enthalpy, ligand field stabilization energy, spectrochemical series |
| 8 | 5 & 9 | MO diagrams for polyatomic molecules, nomenclature of coordination compounds |
| 7 | 5 | MO diagrams of polyatomic molecules |
| 6 | 5 | MO diagrams of heteronuclear diatomics, photoelectron spectroscopy and its applications |
| 5 | 4 & 5 | applications of symmetry (ctd.), MO diagrams of homonuclear diatomics |
| 4 | 4 | properties of groups, transformation matrices, matrix and character representations for point groups, character tables, reducible and irreducible representations, applications of symmetry |
| 3 | 4 | symmetry operations and elements, symbols for symmetry elements, classification into point groups |
| 2 | 2 & 3 | aufbau principle, shielding, periodic properties of atoms & ions, Lewis dot structures, resonance, formal charge, expanded valence, VSEPR theory, molecular geometry, electronegativity, bond and molecular polarity, hydrogen bonding, clathrates |
| 1 | 2 | History of the periodic table, structure of the atom, Bohr model, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, atomic wavefunctions, quantum numbers, radial and angular functions, nodes |
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