CHIMICA INORGANICA II E LABORATORIO

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 3° Year
Teaching Staff: Graziella VECCHIO
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: CHIM/03 - General and inorganic chemistry
Taught classes: 28 hours
Laboratories: 24 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

Knowledge of inorganic chemistry


Course Structure

In room lectures and Lab experiences


Detailed Course Content

  • Radiochemistry. Nuclear reactions Applications.
  • d-Metal complexes: electronic structure and properties. Crystal field theory.
  • Ligand field theory. Spectrochemical series of the ligands. Electronic spectra of coordination compounds. Orgel diagrams. Tanabe- Sugano diagrams. Magnetism.
  • Thermodynamic stability of coordination compounds. Irving-Williams series.
  • Ligand substitution reactions. Rates of ligand substitution. The classification of mechanisms. Redox reactions.
  • Organometallic chemistry. Electron count preference. Ligands: Carbon monoxide, Hydrogen, Aromatic and aliphatic. Applications in organic synthesis.
  • Bioinorganic chemistry. Role of the metal in biological systems.

Lab:

Synthesis of Co(en)3Cl3 and chiral resolution of enantiomers. UV-Vis spectra.

UV-Vis spectra of copper(II) and nickel (II) complexes with nitrogen ligands. Calculation of ∆o


Textbook Information

C.L. Miessler, D.A.Tarr Inorganic Chemistry, Pearson

P. Atkins Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford

C.E.Housecroft, A.G.Sharpe Inorganic Chemistry, Pearson