By: Mike Aubrey
I am pleased to announce that I will be teaching a new Special Topics course in Inorganic Chemistry (CH 368C) this summer term. The course will teach the fundamentals of inorganic chemistry through the primary literature in a tutorial-style format. Each week students will be assigned one or two foundational papers in the field of modern inorganic chemistry and submit a report including their own evaluation of the work along with some prompts provided by the instructor.
Each week two lecture hours will be dedicated to developing thinking tools and background knowledge needed to evaluate research reports and one hour per week will be dedicated to a student-led in class discussion of the assigned reading. The course is designed to be accessible to students who have completed the Fundamentals of Chemistry and Organic Chemistry series. No pre-requisite knowledge of inorganic chemistry is required.
| Topic | Reading |
|---|---|
| Bonding in metal complexes & NMR Spectroscopy | Dawoodi, Z. Evidence for a Direct Bonding Interaction between Titanium and a β-C-H Moiety in a Titanium-Ethyl Compound; X-Ray Crystal Structure of [Ti( Me2PCH2CH2PMe2)EtCI3]. J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 1982, 14, 802–803. |
| Pardy, R. B.; Taylor, M. J.; Constable, E. C.; Mersh, J. D.; Sanders, J. N. M. The Protonation of Co(C5Me4Et)(C2H4)2. J. Organomet. Chem. 1982, 231 (2), c25–c30. | |
| Brookhart, M. Two-Electron, Three-Centre Carbon-Hydrogen-Cobalt Bonds in the Compounds [Co(η-C5Me4R)(η-C2H4)(η-C2H4-µH)]BF4 R=, Me and Et. J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 1983, 12, 691–693. | |
| Crystal Field Theory & Electrochemical Potential | Melot, B. C.; Tarascon, J.-M. Design and Preparation of Materials for Advanced Electrochemical Storage. Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46 (5), 1226–1238. |
| Orbital Interactions & Experimental Determination of Oxidation State | Arrowsmith, M.; Braunschweig, H.; Celik, M. A.; Dellermann, T.; Dewhurst, R. D.; Ewing, W. C.; Hammond, K.; Kramer, T.; Krummenacher, I.; Mies, J.; Radacki, K.; Schuster, J. K. Neutral Zero-Valent s-Block Complexes with Strong Multiple Bonding. Nature Chem 2016, 8 (9), 890–894. |
| Nobel Gas Complexes and Thermodynamic Stability | Bartlett, N; Lohmann, D. H.. “Fluorides of the Noble Metals. Part II.* Dioxygenyl HexafluoropPlatinate(v), 02+ [PtF,]-” J. Chem. Soc. 1962, 5253. |
| Bartlett “Xenon Hexafluoroplatinate(V) Xe+[PtF6]-” Proc. Chem. Soc. 1962, 218. | |
| Graham, L. Concerning the Nature of XePtF6. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2000, 197 (1), 321–334. |