CHM242A - Basic Inorganic Chemistry
Prerequisites: CHM102A
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Course Contents
Basic Concepts:
- Molecular symmetry, point groups and character tables
- Bonding models
- Chemical forces
- Acids and Bases Main Group Chemistry
- Chemistry of selective main group elements and their compounds Transition Metal Chemistry
- Types of legends, Structure and isomerism of transition metal complexes, Bonding in transition metal complexes Valence Bond, Crystal Field and Molecular Orbital theories, effects of orbital splitting
- Organo-metallic compounds: EAN rule, metal carbonyls, metal olefins, reactions of organo-metallic compounds
- Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis Lanthanide Chemistry
- Chemistry of block elements: special features, lanthanide contraction, co-ordination number, structure and reactions.
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Books and References
Shriver, D. F.; Atkins, P. W. and Langford, C. G. Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd Edn., Oxford University, Oxford, 1999.
2. Jolly, W. L.: Modern Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd Edn., 1991.
3. Cotton, F. A. Chemical Applications of Group Theory, 3rd Edn., John Wiley and Sons, 2003.
4. Cotton, F. A.; Wilkinson, G., Basic Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd Edn., John Wiley and Sons 1998.
5. Cotton, F.A.; Carlos, A. M,; and Bochmann, M. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 6th Edn. Wiley Interscience Publication, 2001.