Syllabus
Title
Inorganic Chemistry II
Course Description
Physical properties of coordination complexes, ligand substitutions and electron transfer reaction mechanisms, organometallic chemistry: bonding, nomenclature, and catalysis. The laboratory will introduce the student to a range of synthetic techniques and physical methods of characterization.
Prerequisite
CHEM 3503 (3507)
Preclusion
CHEM 3508 (3504)
Lectures
Monday and Wednesday, 8:35 – 9:55 am, Tory Building 202
Tutorial
Tuesday 11:35 am – 12:25 pm, Tory Building 447 (run by Molly)
Laboratory
The lab is run by Daniel Sun, who has an extensive Brightspace site for it.
Exams
In-Term: March 10, 8:35 – 9:55 am, TB 202 (Molly to proctor)
Final: TBD
Grading Scheme
CHEM 3504: 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 3508, 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
Organometallic Chemistry
- Nomenclature of organometallic complexes
- Electron counting and the 18 and 16 electron rules
- Special ligands: carbonyl, nitrosyl, hydride
- Bonding to a metal via π-bonded electrons by ligands with extended π-systems
- Carbene, and carbyne (alkylidyne) complexes
- Characterization
Reactions and Mechanism
- Potential energy diagrams
- Kinetic terms: Inert and labile complexes
- Thermodynamic terms: Stable and unstable
- Mechanisms and rate laws of ligand substitution: Dissociative, Associative and Interchange
- Octahedral complexes showing Dissociative, Associative, and Conjugate Base mechanisms
- Stereochemistry ligand substitution
- Square planar complexes showing associative and dissociative mechanisms
- The Trans effect
- Electron transfer reactions: inner and outer sphere mechanism
Organometallic Reactions and Mechanisms
- Reactions involving gain or loss of ligands:
Ligand dissociation and substitution, oxidative addition, reductive elimination, nucleophilic displacement - Reactions involving modification of ligands:
Insertion, carbonyl insertion (alkyl migration), hydride elimination, abstraction - Organometallic catalytic processes:
Deuteration, Hydroformylation, Monsanto acetic acid process, Wacker (Smidt) process, Hydrogenation by Wilkinson’s catalyst, Olefin metathesis, Ziegler-Natta polymerization, Water Gas reaction - Parallels with surface chemistry
- 1-electron processes, and ligand non-innocence
Parallels Between Main Group and Organometallic Chemistry
- Survey of main group organometallic chemistry
- π-bonding in Period 3 elements
- Inert pair effect
- 3c2e bonding and bridging
- Hydrometallation
- Displacement
- Isoprene catalysis
- The Friedl-Crafts reaction
- Low valency in group 13
Cluster Chemistry
- Polyatomic Cations
- Inert-Gas Shell
- Synthesis and preparation
- Wade’s Rule(s) and PSEPT
- Zintl Ions
Magnetism
- Spin
- The Bohr Magneton and Gyromagnetic ratios
- Magnetic Susceptibility
- Guoy Balances and the Evan Method
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