Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

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Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

• Chem 342
• Miessler Tarr, 4th edition

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Syllabus

• Goals Objectives
• Textbook (bring to class)
• Attendance Grading2 take-home exams final
  (55)homework (15)literature presentation
  (10)literature exam (15)participation (5)

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Course Content

• Chapters 1-5 (bonding theories)Chapter 6,
  Acid-Base Donor-Acceptor TheoryChapters 9, 10,
  12 (coordination chemistry)
• Chapter 11, Coord Chem Electronic Spectra
  Chapters 13, 14 (organometallic
  chemistry)Chapter 16, Bioinorganic
  Environmental Chem
• Experimental Methods in Inorganic Chemistry
• Nanochemistry noncovalent interactions

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Chapter 1 - Intro to Inorganic

• What is it?
• Sub-fieldsmain-group, coordination chemistry,
  organometallic, bioinorganic, physical inorganic,
  heavy-metals, trans-uranium..
• How does it compare to Organic Chemistry?
• Compounds with single, double, triple bonds
• Inorganic compounds can contain quadruple bonds
  (sigma pi pi delta bond)Cl4ReReCl42
• Carbon maximum number of connections 4
• Inorganic carbon is found in carbon cluster
  compounds, in bridging alkyl groups

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Chapter 1 - Intro to Inorganic

• Organic H is a terminal atom, only bonds to one
  other element. Inorganic The same rules do not
  apply. Lewis structure of B2H6?
• Organic Limited geometries (linear, trigonal
  planar, tetrahedral, bent). Inorganic Also
  square planar, trigonal bipyramid, octahedral,
  and more
• Inorganic also has aromatic compounds (borazine
  B3N3H6)

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History of Inorganic Chemistry

• Ancient times through Alchemy
• Descriptive chemistry, techniques, minerals (Cu
  compounds), glasses, glazes, gunpowder
• 17th Century
• Mineral acids (HCl, HNO3, H2SO4), salts and their
  reactions, acid and bases
• Quantitative work became important, molar mass,
  gases, volumes
• 1869 The periodic table
• Late 1800s Chemical Industry
• Isolate, refine, purify metals and compounds
• 1896 Discovery of Radioactivity
• Atomic structure, quantum mechanics, nuclear
  chemistry (through early 20th century)

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History of Inorganic Chemistry

• 20th Century
• Coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry
• WWII Military projects Manhattan project, jet
  fuels (boron compounds)
• 1950s
• Crystal field theory, ligand field theory,
  molecular orbital theory
• 1955
• Organometallic catalysis of organic reaction
  (polymerization of ethylene)
• Modern Issues
• Bioinorganic chemistry (nitrogen fixation),
  modeling biochemical process, enzymes, x-ray
  crystallography,
• nanochemistry, manipulation of noncovalent
  interactions

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Take a Look

• Literature taken from Inorganic Chemistry
• Take a quick lookWhat are the sub-fields?What
  do you recognize, understand?What looks foreign?