Hi all,

A quick introduction.  I am a part-time assistant professor at DePauw University, where I teach various levels of college students.  My training is protein crystallography, but I have been a chemical educator for a long time (and getting longer by the year, sigh).  I also volunteer and teach a chemistry II class at our local high school, so I interact with a wide range of levels during a typical day.

I will be teaching our one semester Inorganic course (with lab) in the Spring for the first time.  I am working on the lab syllabus and would love to know your must-do/favorite/fail proof (ha) experiments.  I've gotten a few good ideas from those posted to the forums, but am interested in hearing about some of the classics on your syllabus as well.  What experiment(s) do you do that students get the most out of?  What experiment(s) do they enjoy the most? Thanks. 

Hello all,

I am teaching a thrid year inorganic course and want to teach some IR basic using symmetry and character tables.

I would like to go over generating  Reducible representations and then use the reduction formula based on the character table to get to the irreducible representation.

I am using Housecroft and Sharpe's Inorganic Chemistry Text book, 3rd edition and they do cover this topic a little bit, biut I was wondering if anyone knows of other more comprehensive resources with further examples and explanations.

Thanks.