Using FTIR spectroscopy for a Co (III) complex - need advice

Submitted by Dr. Vishakha Monga / University of British Columbia on Mon, 09/01/2014 - 02:36

Hello Everyone,

I teach the labs for the introductory inorganic chemistry course at our institution.  For one of the experiments,my students prepare a Co(III) complex, trans-[Co(en)2(NO2)2]NO3 . I would like them to use FTIR spectroscopy to characterize this compound. 

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Spectrochemical Series

Submitted by Chip Nataro / Lafayette College on Mon, 08/25/2014 - 18:04

Does anyone know where to locate the mother of all spectrochemical series? I am looking for something even more complete than the one on wikipedia. From what I have been able to dig up, that is even more complete than the ones in most text books.

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Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry

Over the last few years, my colleague Steffen Berg and I at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway have developed a new approach to teaching descriptive inorganic chemistry based on organic-style arrow pushing. The approach has been shown to work well for main group chemistry. Two articles have been published in the Journal of Chemical Education illustrating the approach for both simple and rather complicated main group reactions:

Abhik Ghosh / University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway Tue, 07/22/2014 - 14:53
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Bioinorganic in Miessler, Tarr and Fisher

It was pointed out at our recent bioinorganic workshop at Northwestern that the new version of MT&F has no chapter on bioinorganic. 

If you don't have the bioinorganic chapter from previous editions, you can request chapter 16 from the following online form (you need ot contact your Pearson rep).  Maybe if a lot of us from the VIPEr community request the chapter, they will re-include the chapter in the next edition.

 

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/miessler5einfo/

Adam Johnson / Harvey Mudd College Fri, 07/18/2014 - 11:24
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Hip Hop and Science Resources

Submitted by Sibrina Collins / College of Arts and Sciences at Lawrence Technological University on Wed, 07/16/2014 - 22:13

Dear VIPEr Colleagues,

I hope all is well. As you are aware, one of my passions focuses on chemical education, specifically using concepts of Hip Hop to attract young people to the chemical sciences. There is a faculty member (Chris Emdin, Columbia) that is really pioneering this kind of work. I wanted to share a useful link to you about this type of work to engage young people.

http://cenblog.org/newscripts/2013/04/gza-liquid-swords-rap-science-sch…

Sibrina

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