At the end of the course students will have a deeper understanding of Inorganic Chemistry, in particular of the properties of coordination compounds of transition elements, including practical aspects, such as the extraction and separation processes assisted by complex formation.
Course Prerequisites
B. Sc. level General and Inorganic Chemistry
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Assessment Methods
The exam consists of an interview at the end of the course
Texts
Any General Chemistry textbook; D. E. Fenton, Biocoordination Chemistry, Oxford University Press; M. J. Winter, Chemical Bonding, Oxford University Press; J. McCleverty, Chemistry of the First Row Transition Metals, Oxford University Press; E. C. Constable, Coordination Chemistry of Macrocyclic Compounds, Oxford University Press; R. A. Henderson, The Mechanisms of Reactions at Transition Metal Sites, Oxford University Press; P. Beer, P. Gale, D. Smith, Supramolecular Chemistry, Oxford University Press; M. J. Winter, d-block Chemistry, Oxford University Press.
Contents
A short description of methods of preparation of metal complexes will be followed by the study of the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of their reactivity in solution, with particular regard to the formation of the complexes and to the stabilization and characterization of uncommon oxidation states The properties of the complexes formed by macrocyclic ligands (polyethers and polyamines, adducts with non-metallic species, natural macrocycles) will also be discussed.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Copies of the lecture slides, bibliography and more are available on the KIRO portal https://elearning.unipv.it/course/view.php?id=5407
