Inorganic Chemistry: Transition Metals

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Lectures: Bonding models for metals and for transition metal compounds. Interpretation of redox and thermodynamic properties based on ligand field theory. Coordination and organometallic compounds of the transition metals. Metal complexes as catalysts in industry and biology. Laboratory: Synthesis, analysis, and physical investigations of transition metal compounds which illustrate their important properties. Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 351 and 431. Also known as: (formerly Chemistry 333)