Teaching :

1. CH-437 Chemistry of Transition (d- and f-block) Elements

Course outline :

• ✦ 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.


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


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


• ✦ 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.


• ✦ 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 :

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


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


• ✦ 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).


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


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


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


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


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

2. CH-438 Chemistry of Main Group Elements

Course outline :

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


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


• ✦ Brief review of inorganic chains rings and cages.


• ✦ Organometallic compounds of non-transition elements.


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

Recommended Books :

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


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


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


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


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


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


• ✦ 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).

3. CH-521 Interpretative Molecular Spectroscopy

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

4. CH-821

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

• ✦ Metal-metal multiple bonding.


• ✦ Metal-ligand multiple bonding.


• ✦ Pi-complexes.


• ✦ Metal complexes in environment.


• ✦ Inorganic rings, cages and clusters.

5. CH-102

Basic inorganic chemistry for B. Tech.