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.
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.
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.
Hi all!
Hi everyone - can anyone tell me when the ACS-INOR subdivision of Sustainable Energy & Environment was established? It looks new. I like to start out the semester with a little history and frame the field as it is.