CHY 421 Inorganic Chemistry

Pingora Peak (right) and Wolfe's Head (center), Cirque of the Towers, Wind River Range, Wyoming.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

due Tuesday, September 9th: 

(i) worksheets:  Periodic Trends & Lewis and VSEPR

(ii) Computational Exercises: Spartan Tutorial & Computational Exercises 1A and 1B.

Note: I have changed the name of Computational Exercise 2 to Computational Exercise 1B. Computational Exercise 2 is the vibrational analysis of an octahedral and a tetrahedral complex and will be due Tuesday, September 16th. 

revised chapter presentations:

chapter 9 (ppt) (pdf)

chapter 10 (ppt) (pdf)

chapter 11 (ppt) (pdf)

    in-class Term Symbol exercise p2 and d2 (pdf)

    in-class d8 Tanabe-Sugano example (pdf)

    in-class d8 T-S example solution (pdf)

    in-class Cr(III) T-S example (pdf)

chapter 12 (ppt) (pdf)

chapter 13 (ppt) (pdf)

chapter 14 (ppt) (pdf)

Catalysis Presentation (pdf)

Catalysis Project

• • project rubric (pdf)

  • short article on homogeneous TM catalysts (pdf)

  • book chapter on olefin polymerization (pdf)

  • sample presentation: Wilkinson's catalyst (pdf)

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