Inorganic Chemistry II: Main Group Elements

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: CHEM 1021; CHEM 2111; CHEM 2311; or permission of the department This course examines structure and bonding in main group compounds and discusses ionic and covalent bonding with respect to Lewis, valence shell electron pair repulsion, valence bond and molecular orbital theories as well as periodic trends and a survey of the properties and reactions of the elements of groups 1, 2 and 13 - 18. It presents an overview of state of the art spectroscopic techniques and their applications. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours, Laboratory 3 Hours)