- 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
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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