CHEM 220

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Pre-requisites

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Chem 220

  Inorganic Chemistry for Non-Chemistry students

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3

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Course objective :

A course designed to give non-chemistry students back ground in the chemistry of the various groups of the periodic table and the physical bases upon which it depends .

Course Description:

Elements, their electronic configuration and the chemical state of their existence in nature, solid state, Ionic bond, covalent bond metallic bond, geometry of molecules and VSEPR theory; properties of some metals; transition elements and complex compounds, types of legends; stereochemistry in complexes; crystal and legend field theories, magnetic properties; electronic spectra.

Main text books :

§  Basic Inorganic Chemistry, F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson and P.L. Gauss 3rd. ed., 1995, Wiley & Sons .

 

Subsidiary books:        

§  Inorganic Chemistry, A.G. Sharpe, 1992, Longman Scientific and Technical.


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