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30
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Course No.
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Course Title
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No. of Units
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Pre-requisites
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Th.
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Pr.
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Credit
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Chem 424
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Chemical Application of Group Theory
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2
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2
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Chem 322
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Course objective :
A
course designed to give qualitative and semi quantitative treatment of
group theory and its applications in chemistry. Particular emphasis will
be devoted to vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of inorganic
complexes .
Course Description :
Definition
and theorems of group theory, molecular symmetry and the symmetry point
groups, representations of groups, matrices as representation of
symmetry operations, "The great orthogonality theorems", reduction of
reducible representations, the direct product, construction of hybrid
orbitals for sigma and pi-bonding in ABN molecules and their molecular orbitals, molecular vibrations, normal mode analysis and determination of Г3N
, infrared and raman spectroscopy, assignments of vibrational spectra,
ligand field theory, splitting of levels and terms in a chemical
environment, transition from weak to strong crystal field, selection
rules for electric-dipole transition, centrosymmetric and
non-centrosymmetric complexes.
Main text books :
§ Group Theory for Chemists, G. Davidson, 1991, McMillan Press .
Subsidiary books :
§ Chemical Application of Group Theory, F. A. Cotton, 3rd ed., 1990 John Wiley and Sons
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