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CHEM 3100
Course Title:
Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
This course will be one of the electives available for students to complete as part of the Minor in
Chemistry. The new Minor will require at least one 3000+ level course in Chemistry, and while
Biochemistry (CHEM 3510) is currently offered, the credits cannot be used for both the
Chemistry Minor AND the Biology Major, which many of the students in Biochemistry will be
pursuing. Inorganic Chemistry is therefore an ideal upper-division course for students in both the
biological science and health profession career paths, as well as students in other sciences
including physics and engineering. Additionally, this course will also be a requirement for a Major
in Chemistry, which the college will be developing in the near future.
1. Students will learn about the bonding fundamentals for both ionic and covalent compounds,
including electronegativities, bond distances and bond energies using MO diagrams and
thermodynamic data
2. Students will learn how to predict geometries of simple molecules
3. Students will learn the fundamentals of the chemistry of the main group elements, and
important real world applications of many of these species
4. Students will learn to use group theory to recognize and assign symmetry characteristics to
molecules and objects, and to predict the appearance of a molecule’s vibrational spectra as a
function of symmetry
5. Students will gain an understanding of the bonding models, structures, reactivities, and
applications of coordination complexes and inorganic compounds
1. Atomic Structure
2. Molecular Structure and Bonding
3. Solid State Structures
4. Coordination Compounds
5. Acids and Bases
6. Reduction and Oxidation
7. Periodic Trends
8. Biological Inorganic Chemistry
9. Nanomaterials
10. Catalysis and Organometallic chemistry
Assessment will be comprised of homework assignments and quizzes (30% of total grade), hourexams during the semester (30%), a Final Exam (20%), and likely a project or paper based on
scientific literature and reports that highlight the breakthrough technologies that are emerging in
this rapidly changing field.
Inorganic Chemistry, 5th Ed.
Shriver, Atkins
Oxford University Press; 5th Revised edition edition (January 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199236178
ISBN-13: 978-0199236176
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(currently used by Univ. of Utah)
Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd Ed.
Catherine Housecroft, Alan G. Sharpe
Prentice Hall; 3 edition (November 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131755536
ISBN-13: 978-0131755536
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