CH 475: INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Structure & Bonding

Block 5, 2005-6

Keith Kester & Ted Lindeman
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Week 1 Schedule

PLEASE NOTE: The recommended exercises or problems included with most Reading assignments are just that: recommended, not assigned. The are recommended as a way for you to check your understanding of the reading assignment. Answers to the exercises in Miessler & Tarr are given in Appendix A of the text. The course instructors can confer with you about your solutions to the problems. However, completing in-class activities should take precedence over working recommended exercises and problems because the activities deal with those concepts that we instructors have deemed most important.
Mon. Jan. 23: 

READING: Miessler & Tarr, Chapter 1, Sections 1-1 & 1-2; Chapter 2, Sections 2-1 & 2-2 through 2-2-2; Handout: "Orbitals,” and "Picture Essay."

9:00 am Barnes 143: Prior knowledge assessment,  team selection, PEP Survey; Introduction to standing waves and orbitals.

1-2:00 pm, Mac Section of Armstrong Keck Lab: Introduction to Atomic Orbitals software.

Suggested Supplemental Reading: Miessler & Tarr, Chapter 1, Sections 1-5 & 1-6; Pilar, Chemistry the Universal Science, pp. 106-112, pp. 728-732; "Contour Surfaces for Atomic and M.O.'s," J. Chem. Ed., 40, 256 (1963).

2:00 - 3:15 pm Barnes 143: In-class activities on orbitals



Tue. Jan. 24: 

READING: Miessler & Tarr, Chapter 2, Sections 2-2-3 & 2-2-4 (Recommended exercises: 2-4 & 2-5); Chapter 11, Sections 11-2 and 11-3, through 11-3-1: “Free ions (no ligand field)," p. 391, and Figures 11-3,4,5,6,&7, pp. 393-96 (Recommended exercises 11-1 through 11-4).
Derek W. Smith, "The 'anomalous' ionization potential of bismuth," 
J. Chem. Ed., 52, 576 (1975).

8:30 am Class - In-class activities on Russell Saunders terms and J States
12:30 pm: Stockroom orientation, and miscellaneous important lab advice
1:00 pm: Lab Safety Briefing with John DeLaHunt - Olin 361.
Lab -0lin 361.

Wed. Jan. 25: 

READING: Miessler & Tarr, Chapter 3. Section 1, Appendix D, pp. 691-95 (Recommended exercises: 3-1 through 3-3.); “Carbon” from Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table.
Handout: "Determining Electronic Structures of Molecular Species" 

Suggested Supplemental Reading: J. W. Linnett, The Electronic Structure of Molecules, Chapters 1-4 (either on reserve at the library, or in the classroom--where it is to stay).

8:30 am Class - In-class activities on Linnett Electronic Structures (p. 4 of Handout) 
12:30 pm: Lab - Olin 361

Thur. Jan. 26: 

READING: Miessler & Tarr, Chapter 3, Sections 2,3, &4;
Handout: "The Types of Forces Holding Atoms Together."
(Recommended Exercises 3-3 and 3-4.)
8:30 am Class - Linnett structures for NO2 and N2O4, and predicted relative stability due. In-class activity on VSEDR Theory for Predicting Bond Angles in Molecular Species. A Web Exploration of Atomic Radii. Wrap-up of week’s in-class activities.
12:30 pm: Lab 

Fri. Jan. 27: 

A.M.: First written exam over Miessler & Tarr, Chapter 2, Sections 2-1 & 2-2; Chapter and 3 and Appendix D; Atomic Orbitals; and Linnett Structures.