Course Documents and Notes
Homework Problems
Chapter 1: 6,7,19,21,28,29,30;
Chapter 3: 8,14,15,22,23;
Chapter 4: 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24
Chapter 7: 19, 20, 24;
Chapter 19: 7,12,13,14,16,17,18,19;
Chapter 20: 3,5,8,9,11,12,15,16,18,20,24
Articles
How to Read an Inorganic Chemistry Article - Assignment
Article 1. The Lanthanide Contraction Revisited (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129 (36), 11153 -11160, 2007)
Article 2. High-Energy-Density Materials: Synthesis and Characterization of N5+[P(N3)6]-,etc... (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2004, 43, 4919-4924)
Article 3. Multiple Mixed-Valence Behavior in trans,trans-[(tpy)(Cl)2OsIII(-1,3-N3)OsIII(Cl)2(tpy)]+. An Azido Bridge from the Reaction between trans-[OsVI(tpy)(Cl)2(N)]+ and NH3 (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125 (10), 2828 -2829, 2003)
Article 4. Synthesis of a Stable Compound with Fivefold Bonding Between Two Chromium(I) Centers (Science, 2005, 310, 844-847)
Article 5. Synthesis of the P-cluster inorganic core of nitrogenases (J Am Chem Soc. 2003 Apr 9;125(14):4052-3)
Article 6. Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of a trinuclear copper(II) thiocyanurate complex: A spin-frustrated molecular propeller. (Inorganic Chemistry Communications 10 (2007) 631–635)
General Links
CHEMINFO Chemical Information Sources, is designed to help people find and learn how to use chemical information resources
MDB: the Metalloprotein Database and Browser at The Scripps Research Institute
RasMol - Viewer program for proteins
Reciprocal Net - The Reciprocal Net Site Network is a distributed database for crystallographic information
Metal Complex Formula Finder - enter the metal and ligands and the finder calculates possible formulas.
Links
Useful Chemistry Calculators
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Click on the textbook to go to the publisher's site for Chemistry
Effect of Nuclear Charge on Radial functions - Excel
Simple Bonding Theory
Shapes of Molecules - nice site with animations
Symmetry and Group Theory
Group-Theory Tutorial - Illustrates Groups and Tests Knowledge
3D Molecular Symmetry - Probably the best site for illustrating symmetry elements. Requires Shock Wave
Symmetry - nicely illustrated symmetry operations and pt. groups
Molecular Symmetry - This site is really helpful in learning about symmetry elements (need to download plug-in)
Point Group Form - Answer the Questions about your molecule and you are lead to the Point Group.
Spreadsheet to Reduce Representations
3D Excercises in Point Group Symmetry - great site for visualizing symmetry operations
Symmetry and Point Groups Tutorial - well constructed site
Assigning Spectra - Tutorial on Using Group Theory to explain IR and Raman Spectroscopies