Pre-requisite: A pass in higher secondary
Course Outline and Outcome: Course describes the nature of coordination compounds and their structures, electronic properties. Students undergoing this course will have working knowledge on synthetic and analysis of coordination compounds and their involvement in biological systems.
Course Content:
Unit I (Coordination Compounds I) Introduction, physical and chemical properties of transition elements; Introduction to coordination compounds; coordination numbers and geometries in transition metal complexes; nomenclature; isomerism in transition metal complexes – structural, geometrical and optical isomerism.
Unit II (Coordination Compounds II) Double salts and coordination compounds; Werner’s work; effective atomic number; bonding in transition metal complexes Valence bond theory, crystal field theory (octahedral and tetrahedral complexes); magnetism.
Unit III (Early Transition Elements) Introduction and the chemistry of Scandium group, Titanium group, Vanadium group, Chromium group and Manganese group,
Unit IV (Late Transition Elements) Introduction and the chemistry of Iron group, Cobalt group, Nickel group, Copper group and Zinc group.
Unit V (Inner Transition Elements) Lanthanides: Introduction, occurrence, separation, oxidation states and general chemistry. Actinides: Introduction, isolation and general chemistry
Text Book:
1. D. F. Shriver, P. W. Atkins, C. H. Langford, Inorganic Chemistry, ELBS. 1990.
Further Reading:
1. A. G. Sharpe, Inorganic Chemistry, 3ed, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
2. J. D. Lee, A New Concise Inorganic Chemistry, 3ed, ELBS, 1987.
3. B. Douglas, D. McDaniel, J. Alexander, Concepts and Models of Inorganic Chemistry, 3ed, John Wiley, 2001.
- Teacher: Venkatesan R