Inorganic Chemistry 2   (103H2)

Academic year:

2024/2025.

Attendance requirements:

102A2 + 102E2 + 201A2 + 202A2

ECTS:

10

Study level:

Study program:

Teachers:

Snežana D. Zarić, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Miloš K. Milčić, Ph.D.
associate professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistants:

Dušan Ž. Veljković, Ph.D.
associate professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Dušan P. Malenov, Ph.D.
assistant professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: four hours of lectures + six hours of labwork (4+0+6)

Goals:

Inorganic chemistry provides a good foundation for understanding the chemistry of all elements of the periodic table. Therefore, inorganic chemistry is important for understanding all other areas of chemistry. Within this course, students learn primarily about metal complexes, including organometallic compounds and metal clusters.

Outcome:

This course should enable students to acquire knowledge and understanding of the properties and behavior of metal complexes so that they could understand various processes which involve metal ions, from catalysis to living organisms.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, experimental exercises, theoretical/calculation exercises, term papers.

Extracurricular activities:

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Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

• Snežana D. Zarić: Hemija prelaznih metala

Supplementary coursebooks:

• D. F. Shriver, P. W. Atkins: Inorganic Chemistry
• C. E. Housecroft, A. G. Sharpe: Inorganic Chemistry
• M. Gerloch, E. C. Constable: Transition Metal Chemistry
• D. Wohrle, A. D. Pomogailo: Metal Complexes and Metals in Macromolecules

Additional material:

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Lectures:

5 points (4 hours a week)

Syllabus:

1. Geometry of complex compounds, different coordination numbers, isomerism.
2. Crystal Field Theory, splitting of d-orbitals in complexes.
3. Ligand field strength, the energy of stabilization of ligand field.
4. Magnetic properties of complexes, high-spin and low-spin complexes.
5. Molecular Orbital Theory of Complexes, the connection with Crystal Field Theory.
6. The Jahn-Teller effect.
7. Electronic spectra of complexes, Tanabe-Sugano diagrams.
8. Equilibria and stability of complex compounds.
9. Reactions of complex compounds, mechanisms of substitution reactions.
10. Mechanisms of oxidation-reduction reactions, photochemical reactions.
11. Organometallic compounds.
12. Syntheses and reactions of organometallic compounds.
13. Boron clusters.
14. Metal clusters.
15. Bioinorganic chemistry, metals in living organisms.

Labwork:

15 points (6 hours a week)

Syllabus:

Introduction to the course and its subject. Synthesizing preparations for which the infrared spectra will be recorded and analyzed. Recording and analyzing infrared spectra of the synthesized preparations. Determining and analyzing molar conductivity of the solutions of the synthesized preparations. Synthesizing preparations for which the electronic (UV-visible) spectra will be recorded and analyzed. Recording and analyzing electronic (UV-visible) spectra. Synthesizing preparations for which the NMR spectra will be recorded and analyzed. Recording and analyzing the NMR spectra of the synthesized preparations. Synthesis of optically active complex compounds and separation into enantiomers. Determining the deflection angle of the plane of linearly polarized light for each of the synthesized enantiomers, recording the ORD spectra. Synthesizing preparations for which the magnetic moments will be determined. Determining and analyzing the magnetic moments of the synthesized substances.

Colloquia:

20 points

Written exam:

60 points