CHEM 3504

Inorganic Chemistry II

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Physical properties of coordination complexes, ligand substitutions and electron transfer reaction mechanisms, organometallic chemistry: bonding, nomenclature and catalysis. Laboratory will introduce the student to a range of synthetic techniques and physical methods of characterization.

2026

Topics

Topic/Content Subtopics
Organometallic  Nomenclature of organometallic complexes
Chemistry  Electron counting and the 18 and 16 electron rules
 Special ligands: carbonyl, nitrosyl, hydride
 Bonding to a metal via π-bonded electrons by ligands
with extended π-systems
 Carbene, and carbyne (alkylidyne) complexes
 Characterization
Reactions and  Potential energy diagrams
Mechanism  Kinetic terms: Inert and labile complexes
 Thermodynamic terms: Stable and unstable
 Mechanisms and rate laws of ligand substitution
Dissociative, Associative and Interchange
 Octahedral complexes showing Dissociative
Associative, and Conjugate Base mechanisms
 Stereochemistry ligand substitution
 Square planar complexes showing associative and
dissociative mechanisms
 The Trans effect

Readings

Fischer, Donald A. Tarr ISBN-13: 978-9361593284

Prerequisites & course information

Precludes additional credit for CHEM 3508 . Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3503 . Lectures three hours a week, tutorial one hour a week and laboratory four hours a week.

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