CH 212 |
Inorganic Chemistry |
3-0-0-6 |
Syllabus: Acids and
bases: classification, Lewis acid and base concept, hard acid, hard base
classification, Pearson's HSAB concept and application; Oxidation
and reduction: redox reactions, redox potential, electrochemical series, use
of electrochemical series; Metallic chains, sheets and clusters; Metal
silicates, zeolites and polyoxo-metallates; Metals and alloys, ceramic
materials, intermetallic compounds and zintl phases; Chemistry of phosphorus,
phosphorus oxides and phosphorus hydrides; Chemistry of oxyacids and oxyanion
of nitrogen and phosphorus; Differences between the chemistry of nitrogen and
phosphorus; Chemistry of the halogens: pseudo-halogen, inter-halogen; Oxides
and oxyacids; Polyhalides; Chemistry of the rare gases: Chemistry of xenon,
structure and bonding of xenon compounds; Non-aqueous solvents: types of
solvents, general characteristics, reactions in non-aqueous solvents with
reference to liquid NH3 and liquid SO2. Text Books: 1. N. N.
Greenwood and A. Earnshaw, Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd Ed., London:
Butterworth Heinmann ,1997. 2. D. J.
Shriver, P. W. Atkins and C. H. Langford, Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd Ed.,
Oxford ,1994. References: 1. F. A.
Cotton and G. W. Wilkinson, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 5th Ed., John-Wiley
& Sons, 1988. 2. J. E.
Huheey, E. A. Keiter and R. L. Keiter, Inorganic Chemistry: Principles of
Structure and Reactivity, Dorling Kindersley, 2006. 3. P. K.
Dutt, Concepts of Chemistry, Levant Book, 2004. |