Dear Colleagues:

I have been engaged in talks with a program manger over at Pearson about potentially reviving Miessler & Tarr's Inorganic Chemistry for a sixth edition. I initially submitted a proposal based on an analysis of the syllabi many of you shared on here, but now I'm looking for some more concrete interest to help tip the scales the last little bit to (hopefully) overcome their remaining hesitation. There truly is no replacement available for a one-semester inorganic course like mine here at Xavier in Cincinnati.

Hi. I will be working to create an online Inorganic Chemistry course this summer. P chem pre-requ.  Anyone done this before? 

With Messiler & Tarr, Housecroft & Sharp, and Shriver & Atkins all out of print, what is everyone doing? I'm debating just having students access the bootleg copy of M&T (5th ed) versus paying for a book or switching to Pfenning 2nd ed. (~$150 for e-book). Thoughts? Ideas? I'd prefer to keep the costs down but short of writing a text, not sure what the options are. 

My colleague and I at the University of North Georgia have organized a symposium on Effective ways to Teach Inorganic Chemistry at the Southeast Regional ACS meeting in Orlando in October.  We need presenters and abstracts are due next Monday (7/28).  Those of you in the southeast region with new approaches to teaching please consider submitting an abstract.  

https://www.sermacs2025.org/

Thank you

I have been asked about changing our Inorganic offering to a Descriptive course with lecture/lab component.  Are there any good textbooks (up to date) available for this course?  I can't seem to find them from the usual textbook publishers.

Jim

Folks,

Unless I am mistaken, there are gross disagreements between Miessler & Tarr (5th ed) and the analyses by W. H. Eugen Schwarz (J. Chem. Ed. 2000, 435-443 and 444-448) about the energy levels of the valence orbitals in early transition metals and, subsequently, whether there are any electrons in 4s for the M⁺ ions.

A popular diagram (Figure 2.12) on p. 35 of M&T shows 4s below 3d up through vanadium and 1 electron in the 4s orbitals for each of Sc⁺, Ti⁺, Mn⁺, and Fe⁺.

I have started using this for our students to process and analyze their NMR spectral data. I love that it is web based, so the students can use it anywhere and are not restricted to the computer lab or have to download software. I think they have worked out (or are working out) the kinks for handling JEOL data. I am not sure how it does with Bruker data. I assume it works fine for Bruker data. 

https://www.nmrium.org/nmrium

A new edition of my textbook Principles of Inorganic Chemistry (2e) is now available on the Wiley website. You are welcome to request a digital examination copy at this site. For instructors who adopt the textbook, you can also download a Solutions Guide to the end of chapter problems. The second edition is more suitable for use at the undergraduate level than was the first and has been rewritten to have a more engaging and conversive style. The structure of the chapters has also changed. Please check it out. 

I scanned through the forums that came up with "kinetics" and could not find what I am looking for, but I know VIPEr people know the answer to this question: I am looking for an example of kinetics versus thermodynamics control of an ambidentate ligand, i.e., M + XY ---> M-XY initially (kinetics control) ---> M-YX (eventually, thermodynamic product). Any examples of M and XY (obviously "XY" is generic, could be SCN-, et al.)?

Tanabe – Sugano question for ∆_o and B.