CHEM 2501
Introduction to Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
The basic concepts of inorganic chemistry, including the origins of elemental properties, simple theories of bonding, intermolecular forces, main group and transition metal chemistry, coordination chemistry. Inorganic ions in biochemistry, including ion transport and storage, oxygen carriers and hydrolases, redox proteins.
2025
Topics
- Course Description
- The basic concepts of inorganic chemistry, including the origins of elemental properties
- simple theories of bonding, intermolecular forces, main group and transition metal
- and storage, oxygen carriers and hydrolases, redox proteins.
- Atomic Orbitals
- Historical Context of the Atom
- Wavefunctions
- Atomic orbitals
- Quantum Numbers
- Periodic Trends
- The periodic table, electronic configurations
- Elemental properties of electron affinity, ionization energy, atomic radius
- Hard and soft atoms and polarizability
- Calculations of effective nuclear charge
- Bonding models
- Lewis Dot Structure analysis
- Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion theory
- Valence Bond theory
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1006 (no longer offered) with a minimum grade of B- , or CHEM 1002 or CHEM 1012 . Lectures three hours a week, tutorial one hour a week.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- CHEM 2501 Syllabus Dec 16, 2025 ↗2025