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University of Windsor Web SiteIntroductory Inorganic Chemistry I (59-250)
Fall 2010
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dr. Samuel Johnson will be teaching the 59-250 course in the Fall 2010 term. While you should feel free to use any of the resources on this website, please refer to his course website for accurate information regarding this course (e.g. course outline and syllabus, relevant dates, teaching assistant contacts, etc.).
INFORMATION:
General Information:
Classes are from 11:30-12:50 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Toldo Health Education Centre Room 102.
Office Hours: Wednesday 3PM-6PM
Please note that there is not a Laboratory component for this class (you will get lab experience in 59-251) so you do not have to worry about registering for a particular lab section. There will be tutorial sessions periodically (Fridays from 10 - 11:20 in the Toldo Health Education Centre Room 202).
The Teaching Assistant this year will be Ben Cooper. He will have office hours and he will come to help you at the tutorials.
Course Outline and Information for Fall 2008.
Departmental Rules regarding examinations and assignments. Make sure that you are familiar with these rules because ignorance is not an acceptable excuse for not following the guidelines.
Potential Tutors: My graduate student Ben Cooper has been willing in the past to tutor students for this class - contact him to arrange the times and terms.
Assignments (new versions may be posted as we examine the material):
A copy of the Oxidation State (Frost) Diagram that you will need for Assignment 1.
Mid-term dates:
Mid-term 1: THURSDAY October 9th - NOW: THURSDAY October 23rd - It will be held in the usual classroom during normal class time.
A PDF copy of a 2002 Mid-term 1.
Mid-terms similar to the first one you will do can be found at (from Dr. Peter H. Bird's Chem 241 course at Concordia University):
http://faculty.concordia.ca/bird/c241/c241.html
Mid-term 2: THURSDAY November 13th - NOW: THURSDAY November 27th
A PDF copy of a 2002 Mid-term 2
Final Exam:
Tuesday December 16th at 12:00 (exam slot 30) - NOW: SUNDAY DECEMBER 21 AT 1:30 PM - this is apparently going to be held in the Education Gym adjacent to the CAW Centre.
A PDF copy of the questions from a 2002 Final Exam.
A PDF copy of the questions from a 2003 Final Exam.
Resources that you might find useful:
An empty periodic table like the ones you will see in every midterm and the final.
WebElements contains information about the elements in the periodic table and links that may help you in your study of Chemistry.
The Periodic Table of Videos, as the name suggests, has videos and information about the elements in the periodic table.
The companion website to the Housecroft and Sharpe textbook. This site contains a variety of extra information and includes interactive multiple choice questions to help make sure that you understand the material.
Prof. Peter H. Bird's Chem. 241 website from Concordia has many useful applets that can help you to understand concepts we cover in this course. To find these, look at the "Dry Lab" experiments.
An interactive website that shows you pictures of the radial functions (wave function, probability density, and radial probability function) and 3D representations of orbitals.
CHEAP! (around $20 US) and effective molecular model kits that can be used for Inorganic and Organic Chemistry are available from Darling Models. These are the kind that I had when I was in 2nd year and they are very helpful for visualizing molecules when we discuss symmetry. Most people find such models very useful for the second mid-term and the final exam. Please note that Kit #1 is probably adequate for all of your modeling needs.
Prof. Kovacs website from the University of Washington provides some more information on Frost Diagrams - see lectures 9 and 10, in particular.
Symmetry Page. Go here to find 3-D models that you can rotate to help you visualize the symmetry of molecules. If you can not answer these questions quickly, you will have major difficulty passing the final exam.
Note: there are no Dnv point groups only Dnd - here is a copy of a different point group flowchart from Shriver and Atkins.
Symmetry Tutorial. From Otterbein College.
3DMolSym. An excellent application published in the Journal of Chemical Education.
A decent site to practice figuring out reducible representations (useful for both bonding and vibrational modes) is found at:
http://symmetry.jacobs-university.de/
A good site to practice Born-Haber cycle calculations (it provides you the answers if you don't get it right):
http://chemistry2.csudh.edu/lecture_help/bornhaber.html
Current Suggested Reading:
The text book for the class is "Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd Edition" by Housecroft and Sharpe (H&S). The text book package also includes chapters from "Inorganic Chemistry, 3rd Edition" by Miessler and Tarr (M&T, a book we have used previously in this class). You can also use these text books for 251 and it is useful for 350, 351 and 450, in addition to other Chemistry courses you might take. Please note that I have placed the 1st edition of H&S (with the solution manual), the M&T book, an Inorganic Chemistry textbook by Huheey, Keiter & Keiter and the supplement by Norman into the Course Reserve at the Leddy Library.
We will examine ionic bonding (H&S Chapter 6) for the rest of the course.
Sections from H&S you should have already examined:
- please remember that the course notes are considerably more important and the textbook sections are meant to provide additional information:
1.1-1.10 (i.e. the whole chapter)
8.1, 8.2 (we won't use the Nernst equation), 8.4, 8.5, 8.6
7.13 (hard and soft acids and bases)
2.1-2.8 (i.e. the whole chapter)
5.1-5.3 (i.e. VBT)
4.1-4.8 (i.e. the whole chapter) - you should also read chapter 4 from M&T)
3.11 (and boxes 3.4 to 3.6 - NMR spectroscopy)
5.4-5.7 (i.e. MO theory)
6.1, 6.2, 6.8, 6.11, 6.13-6.16
Important sections to read from H&S 2nd Edition (if you have the older textbook):
1.1-1.20
7.1, 7.2 (we won't use the Nernst equation), 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
4.1-4.7 (i.e. the whole chapter)
3.1-3.8 (i.e. the whole chapter)
5.1-5.17 (i.e. the whole chapter)
some additional material from other sections includes information about NMR spectroscopy (2.11), IR spectroscopy (2.9), Hard and Soft acids (6.13).
Problems from H&S 3rd Edition:
Chapter 1: 1.10-1.36 (1.34 and 1.35 are particularly important); you should be able to answer most of the questions up to 1.42 by the end of the course.
Chapter 8: 8.1-8.6, 8.12, 8.14, 8.31
Chapter 2: All questions by the end of the course.
Chapter 4: All questions by the end of the course.
Chapter 5: 5.1-5.19, 5.25, 5.27, 5.28
Chapter 6: 6.1, 6.2, 6.10-6.16, 6.18, 6.19 i.e. some questions about metals and most questions relating to salt-like ionic solids.
You should also try all of the Self-study exercises in the current chapter after you have read the material and you should try the multiple-choice questions on the website. The solution manual for the H&S book is located in the Course Reserve section of the Library.
Problems from H&S 2nd Edition:
Chapter 1: 1.5-1.24 (1.16 and 1.17 are particularly important); you should be able to answer most of the questions up to 1.38 by the end of the course.
Chapter 7: 7.1-7.8, 7.12, 7.14, 7.16, 7.28
Chapter 3: All questions
Chapter 4: 4.1-4.19 i.e. all questions relating to valence bond theory (VBT) and try most of the questions relating to MO theory.
Chapter 5: 5.10-5.18 i.e. all questions relating to salt-like ionic solids.
More questions that you should be able to answer using the concepts that you have learned and a bit of reading from chapters 10-17. These questions are just meant to be helpful practice problems and are not mandatory! You should at least look at them to get an idea about how you would answer them.
Chapter 10: 10.1-10.5, 10.13, 10.21
Chapter 11: 11.1, 11.6, 11.7, 11.9-11.11, 11.15
Chapter 12: 12.1, 12.8, 12.16, 12.17
Chapter 13: 13.1, 13.7, 13.8, 13.17
Chapter 14: 14.1, 14.7-14.11, 14.15-14.16, 14.22
Chapter 15: 15.1, 15.8, 15.10 (just the diatomic molecules), 15.11, 15.14(a), 15.20
Chapter 16: 16.1, 16.8-16.10(a), 16.11, 16.13(a)
Chapter 17: 17.1-17.4, 17.7
Problems from H&S 1st Edition:
You should also try all of the Self-study exercises in the current chapter after you have read the material!
Chapter 1: 1.5-1.24 (1.16 and 1.17 are important)
Chapter 7: 7.1-7.8, 7.12, 7.14, 7.16
Chapter 3: All questions
Chapter 4: 4.1-4.19 i.e. all questions relating to valence bond theory (VBT) and try most of the questions relating to MO theory.
Chapter 5: 5.10-5.18 i.e. all questions relating to salt-like ionic solids.
More questions that you should be able to answer using the concepts that you have learned and a bit of reading from chapters 10-17. These questions are just meant to be helpful practice problems and are not mandatory! You should at least look at them to get an idea about how you would answer them.
Chapter 10: 10.1-10.5, 10.13, 10.21
Chapter 11: 11.1, 11.6, 11.7, 11.9-11.11, 11.15
Chapter 12: 12.1, 12.8, 12.16, 12.17
Chapter 13: 13.1, 13.7, 13.8, 13.17
Chapter 14: 14.1, 14.7-14.11, 14.15-14.16, 14.22
Chapter 15: 15.1, 15.8, 15.10 (just the diatomic molecules), 15.11, 15.14(a), 15.20
Chapter 16: 16.1, 16.8-16.10(a), 16.11, 16.13(a)
Chapter 17: 17.1-17.4, 17.7
Problems from M&T:
Chapter 2: 2-2, 2-3, 2-5 to 2-7, 2-10 to 2-24.
Chapter 3: 3-1 to 3-12, 3-15 to 3-18, 3-20.
Chapter 4: All questions.
Chapter 5: 5-1 to 5-22.
Chapter 7: 7-3, 7-4, 7-8, 7-10 to 7-18. Also, try as many problems as you can using the Born-Haber cycle site listed above.
Lecture Notes:
(any changes to the notes will be posted as the material is presented)
To print out more than one slide per page you can:
1. Download the PPT file and print as "Handouts"
2. Open the PPT presentation on the website, right-click on the first slide and then print as "Handouts"
To use either of these options, you must have PowerPoint on your computer. If you do not, you can get it cheaply through the University.
Alternatively, if you open the PDF file, when you print the document, change the settings to more than one page per sheet. This is done by choosing the "Properties" button. Note that the quality of such print-outs depends on the quality of your printer.
Introduction:
(in PowerPoint format - in PDF format)
Atomic Structure:
(in PowerPoint format - in PDF format)
Atomic Structure Notes 1 - PDF
Atomic Structure Notes 2 - PDF
Atomic Structure Notes 3 - PDF
Bonding:
(in PowerPoint format - in PDF format)
Chemistry of Main Group Elements:
(in PowerPoint format - in PDF format)
Windsor Inorganic Professors in PDF format