Syllabus
Title
Introduction to Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Course Description
The basic concepts of inorganic chemistry, including the origins of elemental properties, simple theories of bonding, intermolecular forces, main group and transition metal chemistry, coordination chemistry. Inorganic ions in biochemistry, including ion transport and storage, oxygen carriers and hydrolases, redox proteins.
Prerequisite
CHEM 1000
Preclusion
CHEM 3506
Lectures
Monday and Wednesday 8:35 – 9:55 am, Tory Building 447
Tutorial
Thursday 10:35 – 11:35, Azrieli Theatre 102 (run by Eden)
Exams
In-Term: Wednesday, February 15, 8:35 – 9:55, Tory Building 447
Final: Tuesday, April 25, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, location TBD
Grading Scheme
The course is split up as follows:
- Assignments 20%
- In-term exam 30%
- Final exam 50%
Text
Gary L. Miessler, Paul J. Fischer, Donald A. Tarr, Inorganic Chemistry, 5th edition, Pearson, ISBN: 978-0321812001
COVID Accommodations
You may have already noticed the pandemic which is affecting our school year.
If you have an issue or need accommodation, please ask. I won’t need a reason or documentation. I’d prefer to know ahead of time (with respect to deadlines and exams), but this isn’t always reasonable or possible.
Please just talk to me about what is going on, and together we will find a solution.
Topics
- Atomic Properties
- atomic orbitals
- The periodic table, electronic configurations
- Elemental properties of electron affinity, ionization energy, atomic radius
- Inert pair effect
- Hard and soft atoms and polarizability
- Calculations of effective nuclear charge
- Molecular Properties
- bonding models:
- Lewis Dot Structure analysis
- Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion theory
- Valence Bond theory
- Molecular Orbital theory
- ionic and covalent bonding
- electronegativity, resonance structures, and intermolecular forces
- calculations of formal charge
- intermolecular forces in biological macromolecules (DNA, protein).
- bonding models:
- Sustainability and Elements (Hiring Lectures)
- chemistry of selected elements: lithium, indium, cobalt, and thorium
- comparisons between elements based on sustainability, environmental impact, and supply chain
- Considerations of the UN definition of sustainability
- Transition Metals and Compounds
- transition metals, ligands, nature of the metal-ligand bond
isomerism - crystal field theory
- spectroscopy and magnetism
- nomenclature
- coordination numbers and structures\
- transition metals, ligands, nature of the metal-ligand bond
- Bioinorganic Chemistry
- transport and storage of metal ions: ionophores and siderophores, transferrin and ferritin, oxygen carriers and hydrolases: hemoglobin, myoglobin, hemocyanin, and hemerythrin; carboxypeptidase and alkaline and purple acid phosphatases
- redox chemistry of electron transfer proteins and oxidoreductase proteins: hemes, copper proteins, flavins, cobalamins, cytochrome c oxidase, photosynthesis, nitrogenase, cytochrome P450,
- metals in medicine, therapeutic compounds, and diagnostic compounds.
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Caveat
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