Prerequisites:  
- CHM441(forInt.MScStudents)
 
- CHM345(NewARCforMS/BSstudents)
 
 
  
Course Contents 
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Symmetry, point groups, character tables, concepts of orbital symmetries for d-orbital splitting diagrams in different stereochemistry (5) 
 
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Synthesis and structure of mononuclear and multinuclear transition metal complexes (2) 
 
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Theories of bonding. Crystal-field and Molecular orbital, effects of ligand-field (spectrochemical series, consequences of d-orbital splitting)  (6)         
 
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Spectroscopy of transition-metal complexes: Russell-Saunders coupling scheme, Term Symbols (6) 
 
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 Magnetism of transition-metal complexes: Curie law, para-, ferro, anti-ferro and ferri-magnetic systems. (4) 
 
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Reaction mechanism of transition metal complexes and electron-transfer reactions (5) 
 
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Introduction of bio-inorganic chemistry: heme, non-heme, Fe-S proteins (5) 
 
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New trends of research: supramolecular chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, gas-storage, 
 
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nanochemistry, the renaissance of carbon (6) 
 
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Transition metal-based inorganic materials (magnetic, optical and biomaterials) (3) 
 
 
  
 
 
	
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- Huheey, J. E.; Keiter, K. E.; Keiter, R. L., Inorganic Chemistry-Principles of Structure and Reactivity: 4th Edn, Pearson Education, 2008.
 
- Shriver. D. F.; Atkins. P. W.; Langford, C. G., Inorganic Chemistry.  3rd Edn., Oxford University, Oxford, 1999.
 
- Cotton, F. A.; Murillo, C. A.; and Bochmann, M., Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 6th Edn., Wiley Interscience, 2001.
 
- Cotton, F. A., Chemical Applications of Group Theory 3rd ed., John Wiley and Sons, 2003
 
- Carter, R. L.,  Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory, John Wiley and Sons,  3rd Edn.,1998
 
- Kahn, O., Molecular Magnetism, VCH, Weinheim, 1993
 
- Lehn, J. M., Supramolecular Chemistry: Concepts and Perspectives, VCH, Weinheim, 1995
 
- Berg, J. M.; Lippard, S. J., Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry, University Science Books, CA, 1995.
 
 
	  
 
 
 
  
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