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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Final Exam is this Saturday (April
8), at noon in BB113! Good luck!
The grades for all other parts of the
course are available on the Blackboard site for this
course.
INFORMATION:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:30-12:20 PM in Memorial Hall room 105.
Mid-term Test:
Friday, February 17th (during class time).
Copy of an old midterm.
Paper and Presentation:
The paper will be due on March 22nd: information about the paper and presentation is found here.
Final Examination:
Saturday April 8th at 12:00 (Exam slot 2) in Biology Building (BB) room 113.
Copy of an old Final Exam.
Text book:
Inorganic Chemistry
by C. Housecroft and A. Sharpe.
This is the
textbook from 59-250. This is
the book that we will follow (roughly) but it is
not required - if you want a copy and don't
already have one, I suggest that you purchase a
copy of this book from e.g. Amazon and I
will place a copy in the library course reserve.
There is a companion web site for the
book found at:
http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/ema_uk_he_housecroft_inorgchem_4/
Other Text books:
Main Group Chemistry by
W. Henderson.
This is an
inexpensive book that covers many of the aspects
of descriptive Main Group Chemistry that we will
examine in this course. There was at least one
copy of this book in the library.
Main
Group Chemistry by A. G. Massey.
This is a relatively
expensive and more comprehensive book that covers many
of the aspects of descriptive Main Group Chemistry
that we will examine in this course. There was at
least one copy of this book in the library.
Supplement: Periodicity and the s- and p-Block
Elements by N. C. Norman
This is an
inexpensive, soft-covered primer with brief
explanations of the trends with which you are expected
to be familiar in the study of the Main Group
elements.
Other sources I will use and that you may find
helpful:
Other introductory
Inorganic Chemistry texts (such as those by: Shriver
and Atkins; Huheey, Keiter and Keiter; Cotton,
Wilkinson and Gaus; Rodgers; Rayner-Canham and
Overton; etc. some of which may be found in the
library)
SOFTWARE AND DATABASE SITES:
USEFUL LINKS (more will follow):
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.
Symmetry and Group Theory Sites (for those of you who forgot about point groups - if you need to, you can look at the class notes from my 59-250 course):
Point Group Practice Page (if you want some models to practice figuring out point groups, come see me).
A website containing images of point groups and other information regarding point group theory.
http://symmetry.otterbein.edu/info/guide.html
Another website containing images of point groups and other information regarding point group theory.
https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.p.goss/symmetry/Molecules_pov.html
A web site that lets you practice using character tables (it will calculate the irreducible representation for the reducible representations that you have determined and it usually works):
http://symmetry.jacobs-university.de/
A web site with many examples using group theory and another tool for determining reducible representations:
http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/character_tables/index.html
One of many different sites from which you can learn/teach yourself about applications of group theory to chemical problems:
A series of seven YouTube videos that introduce you to symmetry and group theory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ARbRucw0OA
Current Suggested Reading:
Study for the Final Exam.
CLASS NOTES (handed out in class for this course)