Course outline

1. ✦Introduction to coordination chemistry (electroneutrality principle, Kepert model, electron count, Werner’s coordination theory, isomerism) including theories of metal-ligand bonding (valence bond theory, crystal field theory and MO theory), metal-metal multiple bonding including quadruple (delta) bonding.
   

2. ✦Classification of ligands by donor atoms, sigma-donor and pi-acceptor complexes. Oxidative addition and reductive elimination reactions and their significance in homogeneous catalysis. 
   

3. ✦Syntheses and characterization of various ligands and organometallic reagents. Reactivity of transition metal complexes.
   

4. ✦General chemistry of lanthanides and actinides including nuclear reactions. Electronic spectroscopy (term symbols, microstates, L-S coupling, d-d transitions, Orgel and TS diagrams), magnetism. EPR.
   

5. ✦Inorganic reaction mechanism: Substitution reactions in octahedral and square planar complexes, stereo chemistry of substitution reactions in octahedral complexes. Trans effect and the theories of trans effect. Redox reactions.
   

Recommended Books:

1. ✦Cotton, F. A.; Bochmann, M.; Murillo, C. A.; Wilkinson, G., Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 6th Ed., Wiley India (2007).
   

2. ✦Huheey, J. E.; Keiter, E. A.; Keiter, R. L.; Medhi, O. K., Inorganic Chemistry: Principles of Structures and Reactivity, 4th Ed., Pearson Education (2006).
   

3. ✦Atkins, P.; Overton, T.; Rouke, J.; Weller, M.; Armstrong, F.; Hagerman, M., Shriver Atkins’s Inorganic Chemistry, 5th Ed., W. H. Freeman and Company, New York (2010).
   

4. ✦Greenwood, N. N.; Earnshaw, E. A. Chemistry of Elements, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.
   

5. ✦Wilkins, R. G. Kinetics and Mechanisms of Reactions of Transition Metal Complexes, 2nd Ed., VCH, Weinheim, 1991.
   

6. ✦Housecroft, C. E.; Sharpe, A. G. Inorganic Chemistry, 4th Ed., Pearson (2009).
   

7. ✦Jordan, R. B. Reaction Mechanisms of Inorganic and Organometallic Systems, 3rd Ed., Oxford University Press (2007).
   

8. ✦Basolo, F.; Pearson, R. G. Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions, John Wiley: New York (1968).

Course outline

1. ✦Basics of symmetry operations, stereochemistry and bonding in non-transition elements and compounds.
   

2. ✦VSEPR theory, review of s- & p-block elements with focus on hydrides, oxides, halides and element organic compounds
   

3. ✦Brief review of inorganic chains rings and cages
   

4. ✦Organometallic compounds of non-transition elements
   

5. ✦Role of non-transition elements in biological processes
   

Recommended Books:

1. ✦Huheey, J. E.; Keiter, E. A.; Keiter, R. L.; Medhi, O. K., Inorganic Chemistry: Principles of Structures and Reactivity, 4th Ed., Pearson Education (2006).
   

2. ✦Cotton, F. A.; Bochmann, M.; Murillo, C. A.; Wilkinson, G., Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 6th Ed., Wiley India (2007).
   

3. ✦Elschenbroich, Ch.; Salzer, A. Organometallics: A Concise Introduction, 2nd Ed. (Revised), Weinheim, Germany, 1992.
   

4. ✦Greenwood, N. N.; Earnshaw, E. A. Chemistry of Elements, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann (1997).
   

5. ✦Mingos, D. M. P. Essential Trends in Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1998).
   

6. ✦Housecroft, C. E.; Sharpe, A. G. Inorganic Chemistry, 4th Ed., Pearson (2009)
   

7. ✦Atkins, P.; Overton, T.; Rouke, J.; Weller, M.; Armstrong, F.; Hagerman, M., Shriver Atkins’s Inorganic Chemistry, 5th Ed., W. H. Freeman and Company, New York (2010).

1. ✦Application of IR, multinuclear NMR, UV-visible spectroscopy, Mass Spectrometry to inorganic and organic molecules.

Inorganic courses offered (15-20 hour class room sessions)

1. ✦Metal-metal multiple bonding
   

2. ✦Metal-ligand multiple bonding
   

3. ✦Pi-complexes
   

4. ✦Metal complexes in environment
   

5. ✦Inorganic rings, cages and clusters