Preparation and Spectroscopic Characterization of the Classical Coordination Compounds Copper(II) and Silver(II) Picolinate.
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Medicinal Applications of Organometallic Compounds
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This learning object focuses on concepts of bioorganmetallic chemistry. I use an article published in Chemical and Engineering News (Dagani, R. “The Bio Side of Organometallics,”Chem. Eng. News, 2002, 80(37), pp 23-29) to introduce students to this field. This activity consists of two components, namely writing a two-page summary of the article and using an in-class activity focused on the concepts of geometry, Crystal Field Theory (CFT) and proposing a mechanism for an overall chemical reaction.
Formal NSF Styled Proposal Writing in Preparation for Original Multi-Week Laboratory Projects
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The advanced inorganic chemistry course is completed by all chemistry majors at Wabash College during the fall of their senior year. The capstone character of the course provides an excellent opportunity for utilizing an investigator model of laboratory learning. Student teams are responsible for the preparation of a formal, National Science Foundation (NSF) styled proposal stating the goals, context, experimental timetable, safety considerations, and budget for the execution of an original laboratory project.
Synthesis and Molecular Modeling of Sodium Tetrathionate
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This experiment is a computational supplement to synthesis of sodium tetrathionate described in "Macroscale Inorganic Chemistry: A Comprehensive Laboratory Experience".* Students will synthesize one sulfur oxyanion (tetrathionate), optimize and compute IR spectra for their synthesized product. In addition, students will predict (using symmetry arguments) and then compute the IR vibrational modes for six additional sulfur oxyanions. A comparison of theoretical (IR spectra),
Kinetics of Ligand Substitution Reactions of a Pt(II) Complex
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This inorganic lab experiment, focusing on the kinetics of ligand-substitution reactions of a square-planar Pt(II) complex, involves collecting UV-vis absorption data and analyzing the results to determine a rate law to support one of three proposed mechanisms.
Electron Counting
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I use these two handouts early in my inorganic course to outline how to count electrons and assign ligand types in a metal complex. I introduce it early so that I can use the terms "X" and "L" in class. I come back to it and hit it again when I do my unit on organometallics. The "ligands" handout is my interpretation of the MLH Green paper from 1995 (Green, M. L. H., J. Organometal.
Element Jeopardy!
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Like many inorganic faculty (especially those faced with trying to teach "all" of inorganic chemistry in a one-term junior/senior course), I have found it increasingly difficult over the years to include any significant descriptive chemistry content in my course. Moreover, I have a constant interest in trying to convey some of the "story behind the story" in chemistry, which in this area centers on the discovery of the elements. I was mulling this over at an ACS meeting one time and happened to be in an inorganic teaching session where Josh van Houten (St.
Organometallics and Named Reactions
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A list of named reactions involving transition metal-complexes is provided to the class and the students present a brief overview of each which includes the original paper and a current application.
Solids and Surfaces: A Chemist's View of Bonding in Extended Structures
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By Roald Hoffmann
Wiley-VCH, 1989
152 pages, ISBN: 978-0-471-18710-3
Molecular Origami: Precision Scale Models from Paper, by Robert M. Hanson
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This book called to me given my fascination with both origami and molecular model kits. While not a textbook in the true sense, the content of the book is pertinent to topics of molecular structure and symmetry and is therefore potentially valuable in both general and inorganic chemistry courses. In addition to the plans for constructing all the models (~125), there is a small amount of background information. Granted, many of these models could more easily be made using traditional model kits, but I had fun building them from paper.