Chemistry 3840 - Inorganic Chemistry II

Course Syllabus

Lab Manual

1 - Closo, Nido and Arachno Relationships

2 - Structures of Simple Solids

3 - Introduction to Transition Metal Chemistry

4 - Coordination Chemistry

5 - Common Ligands and Coordination Numbers

6 - Isomerism

7 - CFSE and Ligand Field Theory

8 - 18 Electron Rule

9 - Electronic Spectroscopy

10 - CO Ligands - IR Spectroscopy

11 - Alkene and Alkyne Bonding

12 - Pi Bonding Acyclic and Cyclic Ligands - MO Theory

13 - Kinetics and Activation Parameters

14 - Substitution Reactions

15 - Oxidative Addition

16 - Reductive Elimination

17 - Sigma Bond Metathesis

18 - 1,1 Insertion

19 - 1,2 Insertion

20 - Olefin Polymerization

21 - Pd Catalysis

22 - Industrial Homogeneous Catalysis


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