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Chemistry · Inorganic chemistry

Inorganic chemistry

The d block from its electron configurations to the color, magnetism, shape and stability of its complexes; symmetry, molecular orbitals, solids, catalysis and biological metal sites, including oxygen carriers, zinc enzymes and medicinal complexes.

Ages 18+ 35 lessons about 22 hours in all

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  1. 1 Electron configurations of the d block
  2. 2 Oxidation states and d counts in complexes
  3. 3 Ligands, denticity and coordination number
  4. 4 Werner's complexes: which ions are free
  5. 5 Naming coordination compounds
  6. 6 The shapes of complexes
  7. 7 Structural isomers of complexes
  8. 8 Geometric isomers
  9. 9 Optical isomers
  10. 10 The octahedral crystal field
  11. 11 High spin and low spin
  12. 12 Tetrahedral and square-planar fields
  13. 13 Magnetic moments
  14. 14 Color and the splitting from a spectrum
  15. 15 The 18-electron rule
  16. 16 Formation constants
  17. 17 The chelate effect
  18. 18 Hard and soft acids and bases
  19. 19 EDTA titrations
  20. 20 Symmetry elements and operations
  21. 21 Assigning point groups
  22. 22 Polarity, chirality and vibrations from symmetry
  23. 23 Character tables and the bands a spectrum shows
  24. 24 Molecular orbitals of diatomic molecules
  25. 25 Carbon monoxide and back-bonding
  26. 26 Ligand field theory
  27. 27 Lattice enthalpy and Born-Haber cycles
  28. 28 Unit cells, density and the radius-ratio rule
  29. 29 Band theory and semiconductors
  30. 30 The elementary steps of organometallic chemistry
  31. 31 Catalytic cycles and turnover
  32. 32 Ligand substitution and lability
  33. 33 Oxygen transport and cooperative binding
  34. 34 Zinc enzymes and metal-bound water
  35. 35 Metals in medicine