Submitted by Gary L. Guillet / Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 11:18
Additional Authors
Brandon Quillian / Georgia Southern University
Chip Nataro / Lafayette College
Maria Carroll / Providence College
Chantal Stieber / Cal Poly Pomona
My Notes
Categories
Prerequisites
No Prerequisites
Corequisites
General Chemistry
Course Level
First year
Second year
Topics Covered
Acid-base chemistry
Bonding models: Discrete molecules
Chemical literature
Computer modeling
Molecular structure
Thermodynamics
Subdiscipline
Atomic Structure and Periodicity
Coordination Chemistry
Introductory Chemistry
Main Group Chemistry
Molecular Structure and Bonding
Description

This module offers students in an introductory chemistry or foundational inorganic course exposure to recent literature work. Students will apply their knowledge of VSEPR, acid-base theory, and thermodynamics to understand the effects of addition of ligands on the stabilities of resulting SiO2-containing complexes. Students will reference results of DFT calculations and gain a basic understanding of how DFT can be used to calculate stabilities of molecules.

 
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Questions for students 18.86 KB
Learning Goals

Students should be able to:

  1. Apply VSEPR to determine donor and acceptor orbitals of the ligands

  2. Identify lewis acids and lewis bases

  3. Elucidate energy relationships

  4. Explain how computational chemistry is beneficial to experimentalists

  5. Characterize bond strengths based on ligand donors

Implementation Notes

Students should have access to the paper and have read the first and second paragraphs of the paper. Students should also refer to scheme 2 and table 2.

 

This module could be either used as a homework assignment or in-class activity. This was created during the IONiC VIPEr workshop 2017 and has not yet been implemented.

 
Time Required
50 min
Web Resources
A Stable Monomeric SiO2 Complex with Donor–Acceptor Ligands
Evaluation
Evaluation Methods

This LO was craeted at the pre-MARM 2017 ViPER workshop and has not been used in the classroom.  The authors will update the evaluation methods after it is used.

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