CHEM 6050 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I: Symmetry, Structure, and Reactivity

Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: CHEM 3890–CHEM 3900 or equivalent or permission of instructor.

P. Wolczanski.

Introduction to chemical bonding and applications of group theory, including valence bond theory, and spectroscopy as applied to main group and transition-metal coordination compounds. An introduction to reactivity covers substitution, electron transfer, and related reactions. Readings are at the level of Carter’s Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory and Jordan’s Reaction Mechanisms of Inorganic and Organometallic Systems.