| Jan. | 28 | Review of thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, electrochemistry, kinetics. |
| & Feb. | 2: | Electronic structure of atoms, orbitals, Hund's rule, trends in the periodic table. |
| Chapters 1 and 2. | ||
| Feb. | 4 | Structure and bonding in molecules. Lewis concepts, lewis diagrams, |
| & | 9: | resonance, bond lengths. Molecular orbital theory. Diatomic and polyatomic |
| molecules. Electron deficient molecules. Chapter 3. | ||
| Feb. | 11: | Solids, lattice energy, geometries of crystal lattices, structures with closed packed |
| anions, mixed metal oxides. Band structure of solids. Chapter 4. | ||
| Feb. | 18 | Inorganic Solid State. Preparation of inorganic solids. Band Structure. |
| & | 23: | Semiconductors. Magnetism. Chapter 32. |
| Feb. | 25: | First exam. (Chapters 1, 2, 3 &4) |
| March | 2, | Coordination chemistry. Coordination number, structures and isomerism. |
| 4 & | 9: | Stability, the chelate effect, reactivity. Electron transfer, outer sphere- |
| inner sphere mechanisms. Chapter 6. | ||
| March | 11 | The periodic table. Chemistry of the elements in relation to their position in the |
| & | 16: | periodic table. Chapter 8. |
| March | 18: | Hydrogen. The Hydrogen bond. Chapter 9. |
| March | 23: | Second exam. (Chapters 32, 6, 8, 9) |
| March | 30: | Berylium and the group IIA. Chapter 11. |
| April | 13: | Boron. Chapter 12. |
| April | 15 | Introduction to the transition elements. Ligand field theory/Molecular Orbital theory |
| 20 & | 22: | Magnetic properties. Electronic spectroscopy. Charge transfer spectra. Chapter 23. |
| April | 27 : | The elements in the transition series. Chapters 24. |
| April | 29 | Pi-acceptor ligands. Metal carbonyls. 18-electron rule. Organometallic |
| & May | 4: | compound chemistry. Pi-donor ligands. Chapters 28 and 29 |
| May | 6: | Third exam. (Chapters 11, 12,23,24) |
| May | 11: | Reactions of organometallic compounds. Catalysis. Chapter 30. |
| May | 13: | Bioinorganic Chemistry. Chapter 31. |
| May | 18: | Review for final. (Chapters 28, 29, 30, 31) |
Check-in, review microscale apparatus and lab techniques
I. Basic Concepts and Chemistry of Main Group Elements.
1. Oxidation state and stability.
Experiment 1: Preparation of tin(lI) and tin (IV) iodide. Experiment 9 in Szafran.
(January 28, February 4)
2. Computational methods for structure determination.
Experiment 2: Computer lab. Use of molecular mechanics software (PCMODEL).
(February 11)
3. Band structure of solids.
Experiment 3: Synthesis and bandgap determination of a semiconductor thin film.
(February 18)
II. Coordination compounds.
1. Geometric Isomerism.
Experiment 4: Synthesis of cis- and trans-Dichloro bis[ethylenediamine] cobalt(IlI) Chloride.
Experiment 26 in Szafran. IR, UV -Vis
(February 25, March 4)
2. Structure and Bonding.
Experiment 5: Preparation of Palladium (II) Complexes and Determination of their Structure
(March 11, 18)
III. Spectroscopic methods.
Experiment 6: Determination of Ligand Field stabilization energies by visible spectroscopy.
Experiments 29 & 22A in Szafran. UV -Vis Spectroscopy
(March 25, April 15)
IV. Principles of catalysis.
Experiment 7: Cobalt (II) Bromide catalyzed oxidation of p-xylene.
G. Pass & H. Sutcliffe, Practical Inorganic Chemistry, p. 112.
(April 22, 29)
V. Bioinorganic compounds.
Experiment 8: Preparation of Copper Glycine Complexes. Experiment 49 in Szafran
(May 6)
Check-out. (May 13)