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Week 1 8/29-9/2 |
Introduction The Structure of the Atom |
The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom and the Rydberg Equation |
Quiz 1 Lecture: Quantum Numbers, Electronic Structure of Atoms and the d Orbitals (Chapter 2) End of
chapter homework problems
from chapter 2 of 4th
Edition of Miessler: 3, 4,
13, 14, 20, 21-25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 38, 39 |
Week 2 9/5-9 |
No Class - Labor Day Holiday |
Lecture: The Slater Rules and Effective Nuclear Charge (Chapter 2) Thursday is the last day to drop classes |
Lecture: The Slater Rules and
Effective Nuclear Charge (Chapter 2) Lecture: Trends in the Periodic Table (Chapter 2)
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Week 3 9/12-16 |
Quiz 2 Lecture: Simple Bonding, Main Group Chemistry (Chapter 3) |
Lecture: Main Group Chemistry, VSEPR (Chapter 3) End of
chapter homework problems
from chapters 3 and 8 of 4th
Edition of Miessler: Chapter
3: 6, 8, 9,
10, 17, 19. Chapter 8: 19, 31,
38
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Lecture: Main Group Chemistry, VSEPR (Chapter 3)
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Week 4 9/19-23 |
Quiz 3 Lecture: Main Group Chemistry, VSEPR (Chapter 3) Lecture: Introduction to
Symmetry (Chapter 4 and Vincent book) |
Lecture: Symmetry Operations (Chapter 4 and Vincent book) |
EXAM 1 |
Week 5 9/26-30 |
Lecture: Symmetry and Point Groups (Chapter 4 and Vincent book) End of
chapter homework problems
from chapter 4 of 5th Edition of
Miessler: 1-6, 13,
23 |
Lecture: Symmetry and Point Groups (Chapter 4 and Vincent book) |
Lecture: Symmetry and Point Groups (Chapter 4 and Vincent book) |
Week 6 10/3-7 |
Quiz 4 Lecture: Character Tables; Reducible and Irreducible Representations (Chapter 4 and Vincent book)
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Lecture: Symmetry and Molecular Vibrations (Chapter 4 and Vincent book)
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Lecture: Symmetry and Molecular Vibrations (Chapter 4 and Vincent book) |
Week 7 10/10-14 |
Quiz 5
Lecture: Introduction to Inorganic Complexes: Ligands (Chapter 9)
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Lecture: Geometries and Isomers of Inorganic Complexes (Chapter 9) |
Lecture: Nomenclature of Inorganic Complexes (Chapter 9)
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Week 8 10/17-21 |
Quiz 6 Lecture: Crystal Field Theory (Chapter 10) |
Lecture: Crystal Field Theory (Chapter 10)
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EXAM 2 |
Week 9 10/24-28 |
Lecture: Crystal Field Theory (Chapter 10) |
Lecture: Magnetic Properties of Transition Metals (Chapter 10) |
Lecture: Ligand Field
Theory (Chapter 10) Last day to withdraw from the class (drop with a "W") |
Week 10 10/31-11/4 |
Quiz 7 Ligand Field Theory (Chapter 10) |
Lecture: Spectroscopy of Inorganic Complexes (Chapter 11) |
Lecture:
Spectroscopy of Inorganic Complexes (Chapter 11) Lecture: Reactions and Mechanisms of Inorganic Complexes (Chapter 12)
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Week 11 11/7-11 |
Quiz 8
Lecture: Reactions and Mechanisms of Inorganic Complexes (Chapter 12)
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Lecture: HSAB theory (Section 6.6)
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No Class - Veterans' Day Holiday
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Week 12 11/14-18 |
Quiz 9 Lecture: Organometallic Chemistry (Chapter 13) |
Lecture: Organometallic Chemistry – Carbonyl Complexes (Chapter 13)
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EXAM
3 |
Week 13 11/21-25 |
Lecture: Organometallic Chemistry and the 18-Electron Rule (Chapter 13) |
Make-up Lecture (if needed) |
No
Class - Thanksgiving Holiday
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Week 14 11/28-30 |
Lecture: Organometallic Chemistry
and the 18-Electron Rule (Chapter 13)
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Quiz 10 Lecture:
Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis (Chapter 14) |
Lecture:
Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis (Chapter 14) |
Week 15 12/5-7 |
Lecture: Bioinorganic and Environmental Chemistry (Chapter 16) |
Quiz 11 |
Lecture: Bioinorganic
and Environmental Chemistry (Chapter 16)
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Finals Week |
Final Exam: Wednesday December 14th, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon |