A study of the chemistry of inorganic compounds,including the principles of covalent and ionic bonding, symmetry, periodic properties, metallic bonding, acid-base theories, coordination chemistry, inorganic reaction mechanisms, and selected topics in descriptive inorganic chemistry. Laboratory work is required. 4 hours credit.
Prerequisites: CHE 341and CHE 361
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Software
Chemscape Chime: Browser plug-in for viewing and manipulating chemical structures
RasMol: Software for viewing and manipulating chemical structures
ISIS/Draw: Software for drawing molecular structures
ChemSketch: Software for drawing molecular structures
Atomic Structure
Atomic and Molecular Orbitals (About.com)
Grand Orbital Table (David Manthey): Really cool pictures of orbitals
Hydrogenlike Orbitals (J. Holler, U. of Kentucky)
Hydrogenic Atom Radial Wavefunction Plotter: plots radial wave functions
Radial Wave Functions (Southwestern College Physics): plots radial wave functions
Molecular Structure
Molecular Models: from Chemistry.About.com
Molecular Geometry (Centre, Dr. Muzyka): Requires Chemscape Chime plug-in (see above for download link)
VSEPR Tutorial (Purdue): Requires Chemscape Chime plug-in
VSEPR Tutorial (Berkeley): Requires RasMol version 2.5 (see above for download link)
VSEPR (Oklahoma State): by John Gelder
Symmetry
Point Group Symmetry (Imperial College): Requires Chemscape Chime
Point Group Practice (U. of Illinois): Requires Chemscape Chime
Molecular Orbital Theory
Atomic and Molecular Orbitals (Chemistry.About.com)
Molecular Orbital Theory (SparkNotes)
Solid State: Crystal Lattices
Crystal Lattice Structures (Naval Research Laboratory)
Coordination Chemistry
Structure and Isomerism of Coordination Compounds (Purdue): Requires Chemscape Chime
The Organometallic HyperTextBook (Dr. Rob Toreki): Many Useful Subjects, for example:
Electron Counting and the 18-Electron Rule
Chemical Abstracts
STN Easy: Search the Chemical Abstracts database. Get your password from the reference librarians.
Using CAS Databases on STN: Guidelines for carrying out a literature search.
Other Databases
NIST Chemistry WebBook: Database with a wealth of information, especially thermodynamic data.
Miscellaneous Links
VIPEr (Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource): Lots of useful information related to inorganic chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry: many useful links here (from chemistry.about.com)
Visual Elements Periodic Table
Concise Chemistry web site: portal with a variety of information
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