Syllabus
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Course Code: CHEM 201 Course Name: Inorganic Chemistry-II |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Electronic Spectra and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Complexes-I Electronic arrangements of microstates, calculation of the number of microstates in various electronic arrangements, spectroscopic term symbols, vector diagrams to indicates coupling of orbital angular momenta in p2, p3, d2 configurations and spin orbit coupling for p2 arrangement, spectroscopic terms, spectral terms of d2 to d8 metal ions, determining the ground state terms-Hund's rules, derivation of the term symbols for a closed subshell. |
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| 3 | Metal △-Complexes Metal carbonyls, structure and bonding, vibrational spectra of metal carbonyls for bonding and structural elucidation, important reactions of metal carbonyls; preparation, bonding, structure and important reactions of transition metal nitrosyl, dinitrogen and dioxygen complexes; tertiary phosphine as ligand. |
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| 4 | Metal Clusters Higher boranes, carboranes, metalloboranes and metallocarboranes. Metal carbonyl and halide clusters, compounds with metal-metal multiple bonds. |
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| 2 | Electronic Spectra and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Complexes-II Interpretation of electronic spectra, Orgel diagrams, Tanabe-Sugano diagrams for transition metal complexes (d1-d9 states), calculations of Dq, B and B parameters, charge transfer spectra, spectroscopic method of assignment of absolute configuration in optically active metal chelates and their stereochemical information, anomalous magnetic moments, magnetic exchange coupling and spin crossover. Circular Dichroism and Optical Rotatory Dispersion Polarized light, fundamental symmetry requirements, for optical activity, interaction of polarized light with optically active matter, optical rotation, Cotton effect, configuration of Tris-chelated complexes. |
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