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CHEMISTRY 2P32 WINTER TERM 2015
Instructor:
Principles of Inorganic Chemistry
Dr. M. Pilkington Rm. CRN 410; Phone: 3403
email: [email protected]
website: www.mpilkington.com
Office Hours:
Tues -Thurs 10 am -12 pm
Availability:
I am available outside office hours. Students can email me at
any time to schedule an appointment. I check my email
regularly and will respond within 24 hours.
Senior Demonstrator: Roger McLaughlin
email: [email protected]
Rm: CRN 514; Phone: 6109
2P32 Homepage: http://www.mpilkington.com/Teaching.html
Please use my website to access important information for the
lecture component of this course. Lab. information will be posted on
SAKAI. Labs start this week, if you have a conflict see the senior
demonstrator.
Course Materials:
Textbook: Glen E. Rodgers, Introduction to Coordination, Solid State, and
Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry (Third Edition).
Lab Manual
Model kit is required. There can be model-building questions on exams.
Complimentary Reading and Reference: Catherine E. Housecroft and Alan G.
Sharpe, Inorganic Chemistry. (This is also the suggested text for the third year
Inorganic Chemistry Course).
Labs: Labs begin this week.
If you have taken CHEM 2P32 previously and have achieved an overall grade of
“B” or better (more than 70%) in the labs, you may use your previous lab. mark for
the lab component of CHEM 2P32 this year. If you did not achieve a “B” or better
in your lab work, you must retake the labs. If you have a problem with the
scheduling of your lab. Please contact Roger McLaughlin.
Assignments
There will be approximately 10 assignments due every Tuesday, starting Tuesday the
13th of January, 2014. Assignments will be collected by Dr. Pilkington immediately after
class. No time extensions will be given. Late or mislaid assignments will be penalized.
Make sure you put your name and Brock ID number on your assignment.
Penalties for Late Submission of Assignments
Missed assignments cannot be made up. It is departmental policy that the student will
loose 10% of the mark for each day past the deadline. Assignments handed in more than
five days after the deadline will not be accepted.
Library Reserve
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Copies of readings for the course are on reserve in the library, along with copies of
previous exams. Additional material is available through the CHEM 2P32 Website.
Class Attendance
Regular attendance to the lecture component of this course is rewarded. 10% of
the marks are assigned for regular attendance. Attendance will be monitored via a
signature sheet passed around at the beginning of each lecture. A head count will be
taken to make sure the number of signatures matches the number of students in the
class. Those students caught signing for absent friends will be awarded a zero for
attendance. Students will need to attend at least 29 out of the 34 classes to receive
a mark. No part marks will be given, students will receive the full 10% or a zero.
Course Assessment and Evaluation
The breakdown is as follows:
Class Attendance
10%
Assignments
15%
Labs
15%
Test
10%
Midterm exam
15%
Final Exam
35%
The assignments are all weighted equally. Periodic tables will be provided and students
should bring their own model kits and calculators for the tests and final exam. Students
will receive the marks for 4 assignments and the first test one week before the
deadline for withdrawal without penalty.
Important Departmental Policies: You must achieve at least 35% on the final
examination in order to pass the course. You must complete all the labs for the course.
A lab is not complete until a lab report has been turned in. The lab. component of this
course is not complete until you have turned in your notebook to your demonstrator
by the specified date at the end of term.
Missed Labs or Tests: If you miss a lab because of illness, please submit a medical
certificate to the course instructor or to the senior demonstrator. You will either be
excused from that piece of work or required to make it up at a mutually convenient time
to be scheduled. You may also request to be excused from a lab for certain reasons
other than illness, such as a death in the immediate family.
If you miss a scheduled exam, you will need to provide a medical certificate or other
valid reason (including documentation) for not writing the exam and a makeup exam will
be set. Students who do not have valid reasons for missing an exam will be given a zero
on the exam.
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Final examinations are administered by the Registrar's Office and exam regulations are
available elsewhere. Note that it is your responsibility to carefully read the exam
timetable and to be in the right place at the right time for examinations. Since exam
timetables can be changed up to shortly before the exam period, be sure that you have
seen the final timetable, not just the earlier tentative one. Excuses such as "I showed
up for the examination in the afternoon but found that it had been given in the morning"
are not normally accepted.
Course Goals and Objectives: To demonstrate that inorganic chemistry is not just the
study of elements and compounds, but also the study of physical principles. Although
inorganic chemistry is in the broadest sense the chemistry of all elements except
carbon, the objectives of this course are to demonstrate that there are many overlaps
between other branches of science that include physical chemistry and biology. The
course goal is to convince students that inorganic chemistry is a broad interdisciplinary
subject with many diverse applications that although often understated and invisible do
impact their everyday lives. A major objective wherever possible is to bring an
appropriate historical perspective to the course material to teach students an
appreciation for how the field of inorganic chemistry developed and who developed it.
The most important course objective is to teach students to develop an
interconnected network of ideas that they can use to predict a variety of chemical
behavior which will provide a solid foundation for future studies.
Requirements from Students: Upon completion of the course students should acquire
an understanding of a range of basic principles and be able to apply these concepts to
rationalize how and why compounds react in specific ways, adopt certain geometries and
structural arrangements and display specific physical properties such as color or
magnetism. Students should have knowledge and an understanding of applications of
inorganic chemistry that will be presented during discussions of diverse subjects such
as heavy metal poisoning and antidotes, hydrogen economy, fireworks and antitumor
chelating agents. At the end of this course, students should be able to think their
way through the material and not merely memorize groups facts or trends, but be
able to understand and apply the concepts.
Topics and Themes: Refer to schedule below. Lectures 1-15 will cover the basic
principles of coordination chemistry. Lecture 16 demonstrates the overlap between
inorganic chemistry and biology and introduces the field of bioinorganic chemistry.
Lectures 18-35 cover topics within the field of descriptive inorganic chemistry where
we build a network of ideas to make sense of the periodic table of elements. Lectures
26-28 present an introduction to the field of solid state inorganic chemistry.
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Approximate Lecture Schedule Winter, 2012. References are to Chapters in Rodgers.
Lectures
Dates
1-3
Jan. 6 -8
4-6
Jan. 13 -15
7-9
Jan. 20 -22
10 - 11
Jan. 27- 29
12 - 14
Feb. 3 - 5
15 - 17
Feb. 10 -12
18 -19
Feb. 24 -26
20 - 23
Mar. 3 - 5
Mar. 6
24 - 26
Mar. 10 - 12
27 - 29
Mar. 17 - 19
30 - 33
Mar. 24 - 26
34 - 36
Mar.3 1 – Apr
2
Apr. 6
Topics
Review of Important Concepts: Lewis structures, VSEPR, valence
bond theory etc.
Introduction to metal complexes
Ligands and nomenclature
Transition metal complexes: definitions, isomerism
Stereochemistry in transition metal complexes
Structural isomers of transition metal complexes
Simplest bonding theory for transition metal complexes: crystal
field theory
Magnetism and colors of transition metal complexes
Crystal field stabilization energy – octahedral, tetrahedral and
square planar
Consequences of CFSE: Variations in stability; Preferred
geometries
Reaction types of metal complexes
1 Hour Test (lectures 1-10)
Substitution reactions of octahedral metal complexes
Redox reactions and mechanisms
Stability of transition metal complexes: HSAB, Chelate effect
Substitution reactions in square planar complexes
The role of metal ions in biology
Revision Class and Practice answering Exam Questions
Reading Week Feb. 16 – Feb. 20
MidTerm Exam (lectures 1-17)
The conceptual network: periodic relationships
The conceptual network: uniqueness of the 2nd row elements.
Hydrogen and Hydrides
Structure of liquid water; hydrogen bonding
Aqueous solutions and solubility.
Last Day to withdraw from CHEM 2P32 without academic
penalty
Oxides: acidic, basic and amphoteric
Strengths of oxo acids
Solid-state chemistry: types of crystals
A-type lattices, ABn-type lattices; Ionic radii and structure types
of ionic crystals
Inorganic Chemistry Research at Brock University
The alkali metals: selected chemistry
The alkaline-earth metals: selected chemistry
Boron chemistry
Inorganic chemistry of carbon; Silicates and aluminosilicates; pd bonding involving elements of the 2nd and 3rd periods
Nitrogen and phosphorus and Sulfur compounds
Chemistry of the halogens
Chemistry of the noble gases
Snowday
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References
Review your 1st
Year Notes
2.1-2.3
2.4
3.1
3.2-3.4
3.6
4.1-4.2
4.3
4.3
5.1-5.2
5.3-5.4
5.4
6.2
5.5
6.5
9.1
9.2-9,5
10.5-10.6
11.2
11.2
11.3
11.4
7.1
7.2 - 7.3
12
13
14.3, 14.5
16, 17
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