Unit name | Intermediate Inorganic & Materials Chemistry |
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Unit code | CHEM20170 |
Credit points | 30 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Hall |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
CHEM10600, CHEM10700, CHEM10800, CHEM10900 (or equivalent mathematics unit as approved by the School). |
Co-requisites |
None. |
School/department | School of Chemistry |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This unit develops the introduction to inorganic chemistry given in CHEM 10600/700/800 to provide the essential base of inorganic chemistry required for advanced study at Levels 6 and 7 (Years 3 and 4). It covers the main areas of the subject e.g. main group chemistry, the organometallic and coordination compounds of transition metals including catalysis, materials chemistry and applications of NMR spectroscopy and an introduction to group theory.
Lectures, workshops (classes of 20 students with two staff members) and masterclasses (interactive seminar sessions of the whole class) and independent study. The Dynamic Laboratory Manual provides important e-learning resource in advance of workshop/masterclass sessions. Pre-workshop online material will be provided to assist students with the contact workshop.
Exam: 2 x 2 hours 30 mins
Essential reading will be from the following books:
Inorganic Chemistry 6th Edition, M Weller, T Overton, J Rourke and F Armstrong, Oxford University Press 2014.
Further reading from: Introduction to Organic Spectroscopy, L. M. Harwood and T. D. W. Claridge, Oxford Chemistry Primer 1997; Periodicity and the s- and p-block Elements, N C Norman, Oxford Primer, 1997.