CHIMICA INORGANICA II E LABORATORIO

Knowledge of inorganic chemistry

In-room lectures and Lab experiences

• 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

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

P. Atkins Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford

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

M. Halka, N. Brian Periodic Table of the Elements Transition metals, Facts on File