Syllabus
Title
Inorganic Chemistry I
Course Description
Symmetry, identification of Raman and infrared active vibrations, symmetry-adapted molecular orbital theory of polyatomic molecules, electron-deficient bonding, bonding in coordination complexes, solid-state bonding, ionic lattices. Laboratory will introduce the student to a range of synthetic techniques and physical methods of characterization.
Prerequisite
CHEM 2501
Preclusion
CHEM 3507 (3503)
Lectures
Tuesday and Thursday
2:35 pm – 4:055 pm
Tory Building 208
The lectures will be offered in person only.
Tutorial
Wednesday
1:35 pm – 2:25 pm
Tory Building 240
The tutorial will be offered in person only. I will take up the previous week’s assignment in the tutorial, as well as answer any questions that you have. Please email your questions in advance so I can offer a considered (and coherent) answer.
Drop-In Hours
Monday and Thursday
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Steacie Building 203b
Laboratory
The lab is run by Daniel Sun, and he has an extensive website about it on Brightspace.
Exams
In-Term: Thursday, October 19
Tory Building 208
Final:
to be determined
Grading Scheme
CHEM 3503: the lab is 30% of your mark.
The other 70% is split up as follows:
- Assignments 14%
- In-term exam 21%
- Final exam 35%
For CHEM 3507, there is no lab.
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
Topics
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Coordination, nomenclature, and isomerisation
- Electron counting and the 18 and 16 electron rules
- Thermodynamics of complex formation: formation constants, enthalpy, and entropy
- Steric effects and ligand basicity (pKa)
- Hard-Soft Acid-Base Theory
- The chelate effect
- Coordination Chemistry
- Crystal field theory and crystal field stabilization energy
- Strong field and weak field ligands; low spin and high spin electron configurations
- Term symbols
- Microstate analysis and the d-orbitals
- Ligand field spectroscopy
- Russell-Saunders coupling terms, ligand field terms, correlation diagrams
- Assignment of d-d transitions using Tanabe-Sugano diagrams
- Determination of d-orbital splitting energies
- Repulsion terms and the nephelauxetic effect
- Symmetry and Group Theory
- Symmetry elements
- Symmetry point groups of molecules
- Character tables, symmetry labels
- Molecular Orbitals
- Fragment molecular orbital theory
- Molecular Orbital (MO) theory and non-directed symmetry adapted LCAOs
- application to organic and main group compounds
- Symmetry labelled molecular orbital schemes
- Molecular orbital theory of transition metal complexes, symmetry labelled MO schemes, the effect of a ligand’s pi-acceptor or pi-donor properties on d-orbital splitting
- Paramagnetism and magnetic moment, and the determination of the number of unpaired electrons
- Motion
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- Chemical applications: chirality, IR and Raman spectroscopy
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Caveat
Obviously, I reserve the right to make adjustments or changes throughout the semester. Remember that you are responsible to learn about these changes, which will be posted on this website.