CHEM 43104

>< Type/Status : Compulsory
>< Title : Advanced Inorganic Chemistry II
>< Objectives : To provide the recent developments and applications of Inorganic Chemistry.
>< Course Content :

Spectroscopic Methods

Principles of NMR (19F, 31P, 13C, 14N and 11B), ESR, pulse NMR, spin lattice relaxation time, variable temperature NMR, NQR, Mossbaur spectroscopic techniques & their applications in structure elucidation of inorganic and organometallic compounds.

Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms

Kinetics and mechanism; stoichiometric & intimate mechanisms, kinetic and thermodynamic properties of complexes, substitution reactions of four coordinate square planar complexes ; rate law mechanisms, trans effect theory and factors controlling the reactivity of four - coordinate square planar complexes, substitution reactions of octahedral complexes ; study of acid hydrolysis, base hydrolysis & anation reactions, stereochemical changes in geometrical & optical isomers, electron transfer Processes; outersphere and innersphere mechanisms.

Bioinorganic chemistry

Metals in biological systems, metalloenzymes, dioxygen carriers, biological redox reactions, distribution and functions of metals, metal induced toxicity and chelation therapy, environmental bioinorganic chemistry.

Structural Chemistry

Electron deficiency in boron and aluminum compounds, boron hydrides, carboranes, structures, bonding and styx formulae, metal clusters; binuclear and polynuclear compounds; sturcture and bonding, catenation and intercalation.

Inorganic Polymers

Zeolites, silicones, organic - inorganic hybrid polymers: structures, preparations, characterization and applications

>< Process : A combination of lectures and tutorial discussions
>< Scheme of Evaluation : 100% end of course examination
>< Recommended Reading :
1. Friebolin, H. (1991), Basic one and two dimensional NMR spectroscopy, VCH.
2. Ayscough, P. B. (1967), Electron spin resonance in chemistry, Methu.
3. Bancroft, G. N. (1973), Mossbauer spectroscopy, McGraw Hill.
4. Cotton, F. A. and Wilkinson, G. (1988), Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 5th edition, John Wiley.
5. Fenton, D. E. (1995), Bio Coordination Chemistry, Oxford.
6. Kaim, W. and Schwerderski, B. (1994), Bioinorganic Chemistry-Inorganic Elements in the Chemistry of Life, John Wiley.
7. Schubert, U. and Husong, N. (2000), Synthesis of Inorganic Materials, VCH.

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