We all hate it...yet we all need it. Short of buying IUPAC's two versions of the Little Red Book, do people know of good resources?  There's the Wikipedia page on the 2005 "reforms" here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC_nomenclature_of_inorganic_chemistry_…

I am working on a syllabus for an upper division lab and thought that it would be great to have my students sign some sort of a scientific honor statement in order to try to foster an atmosphere of honesty in data collection and reporting.  Has anybody done this or something similar?  Was it successful?  Does anybody have a good one?  Of course I would reference you:) 

Thanks,

Tim

I think we can all agree that the descriptive chemistry of the elements (I am thinking mostly of the p block, but some aspects of the d block as well) is:

Hello everybody,

I'd like to draw your attention to our website

http://chimge.epfl.ch

onto which we uploaded the general chemistry course given to first year students in biology and medicine. The course is not totally completed (Analytical chemistry lacks its last chapter) but is multilingual with French English (direct access: http://chimge.epfl.ch/Index_en.html) and German presently available. Any comment is welcome!

Jean-Claude

I really like the idea of teaching inorganic with papers from the literature.  I've never done it because I've never been sure how best to do this.  (I know, I'm a scientist, I should experiment!)  I'd really be interested in hearing about tips (things to do, things to avoid), ways to structure class, important things to look for in a discussion paper, suggestions for leading an effective discussion section, etc... from people who have taught class with lit papers.  I'm curious about  ways to do things and different models that exist.

As one of the presenters at the IONiC symposium in New Orleans said, everyone knows that we only get 1/2 a year to teach inorganic chemistry instead of a year for organic, because, of course, there is only 1/2 as much chemistry to teach (and thats why the books are thinner, I suppose, as well). You have to make choices.  I don't (usually) teach these in my "inorganic" course.  I have taught some of these (marked with a *) in my analytical course, however...

Here is what I think you NEED^* to teach:

1. symmetry, Group theory
2. MO theory
3. coordination chemistry
4. descriptive chemistry (in some fashion or other, even if not a whole unit, work it in)
5. organometallics
6. bioinorganic
7. simple lattices (ionic and metallic)

 what do you include?

^{* note, I don't teach all of these every year...}