Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
Description
AI statements are somewhat obsolete.
SLiThErs - Supporting Learning with Interactive Teaching: a Hosted, Engaging Roundtable
Chip Nataro / Lafayette College
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 14:18
A collection of all of the IONiC VIPEr SLiThErs (Supporting Learning with Interactive Teaching: a Hosted, Engaging Roundtable). These events are short presentations on a topic followed by a period of discussion between the presenter and live participants. Each of these events is recorded and posted to the IONiC VIPEr YouTube Channel.
NYT Connections-Style Game for Lewis/HSAB Theory
Description
This game is modeled after the New York Times (NYT) "Connections" game, in which players are presented with 16 words or phrases and the objective is to sort the words into four groups of four words that are all connected in some way. The game can be done by students individually, in small groups, or even together as a whole class. This game aims to help students practice and/or review concepts related to Lewis acids and bases and hard-soft acid-base theory. In the game, students will be presented with 16 ions or compounds belonging to four different groups.
Thermodynamic Analysis of Aqueous Redox Chemistry: Introduction to Latimer and Frost-Ebsworth Diagrams
Description
This two-part educational module, comprising a structured in-class activity and a take home assignment, introduces undergraduate inorganic chemistry students to the construction, interpretation, and utility of Latimer and Frost-Ebsworth diagrams.
Intermediate Inorganic Laboratory with CURE SQ2025
Kyle Grice / DePaul University
Wed, 04/29/2026 - 15:06
Description
In this lab we have two standard introduction labs (LUM and POR) and then a full CURE. This was the second time I ran this CURE (the first was Spring 2024).
The CURE is being published as a multi-institution ACS Symposium Series Chapter in 2026, and the materials from the CURE will be hosted in a collection on VIPEr.
Once the chapter is published, I will add the link to it in the description.
2026 Multi-institutional CURE in Inorganic Chemistry
Kyle Grice / DePaul University
Tue, 03/17/2026 - 12:40
This collection is of LOs related to the Multi-Institutional CUREs developed by the authors.
Programmable Atom Equivalents: Colloidal Crystal Engineering with DNA
Alexandra Brumberg / Drexel University
Sun, 03/08/2026 - 23:05
Description
This literature discussion was created for the ACS National Award Winners 2026 collection for Prof. Chad Mirkin, the recipient of the 2026 ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials for “establishing the field of colloidal crystal engineering with DNA.” This LO is based on the article, "A General Approach to DNA-Programmable Atom Equivalents" published in Nature Materials, 2013, 12, 741.
2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - MOFs
Chip Nataro / Lafayette College
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 08:43
In celebration of the 2025 Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yagi, this collection features various LOs about MOFs.
Geometry of macrocyclic Cu complexes
James F. Dunne / Central College
Wed, 02/26/2025 - 12:19
Description
This literature discussion introduces students to various tetradentate ligands not commonly seen in textbooks. Students can apply knowledge of ligand binding to predict coordination geometry while exploring how the 3D nature of more complex ligands can affect their coordination to a metal.
AsF5 - a superacid for super review!
Description
This LO was developed as a review activity for the end of the semester. Students are required to touch on a wide range of topics including acid-base theories, crystal systems, point groups, the spectrochemical series, and 19F NMR spectroscopy. A close reading of the paper is required helping to build student comprehension of the literature.