Standard syllabus
Inorganic chemistry · Undergraduate · Chemistry
Topics
Atomic structure and periodic trends
- Electronic configurations and periodic properties
- Ionization energies, electron affinities, and electronegativity
- Atomic and ionic radii trends across the periodic table
- Oxidation states and common valences
- Hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB) preview
- Allotropes of main-group elements
- Hydrides, oxides, and halides of representative elements
- Industrial production of key inorganic compounds
- Environmental chemistry of main-group elements
- Descriptive chemistry of Groups 1, 2, 13–18
Chemical bonding and molecular structure
- Ionic vs covalent bonding in inorganic compounds
- Lattice energy and Born–Haber cycles
- Lewis structures and VSEPR for inorganic molecules
- Valence bond theory and hybridization
- Molecular orbital theory for diatomics and triatomics
- Metal–ligand bonding in coordination compounds
- Crystal field theory: d-orbital splitting
- Ligand field theory and strong/weak field ligands
- Jahn–Teller distortion
- Magnetism: diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism (intro)
Coordination chemistry
- Coordination number and common geometries
- Nomenclature of coordination compounds
- Isomerism: geometric, optical, linkage, ionization
- Stability constants and chelate effect
- Spectrochemical series and color of complexes
- Electronic spectra of transition metal complexes
- Organometallic compounds: 18-electron rule (intro)
- Catalysis by transition metal complexes (overview)
- Bioinorganic chemistry: hemoglobin, chlorophyll, nitrogenase (intro)
- Synthesis and characterization of coordination compounds
Solid-state and materials chemistry
- Crystal systems and unit cells
- Close packing: FCC, BCC, HCP structures
- Ionic crystals and radius ratio rules
- Band theory: conductors, semiconductors, insulators
- Defects in crystals: point and line defects
- Solid-state reactions and ceramic materials
- Zeolites and porous inorganic materials
- Nanomaterials: quantum dots and nanoparticles (intro)
- X-ray diffraction for structure determination (intro)
- Applications in electronics, catalysis, and energy storage
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