C4010 Inorganic Chemistry III

Faculty of Science
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Jiří Pinkas, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Jiří Pinkas, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Supplier department: Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Mon 17. 2. to Sat 24. 5. Tue 12:00–13:50 C12/311
Prerequisites
C2062 Inorganic Chemistry II
General Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry I, II Analytical Chemistry I
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduces important topics of modern inorganic chemistry and is divided into 11 main parts. The goal is to present in a more advanced form the periodic atomic properties of elements and their influence on the structure and properties of different allotropes of main group elements, on bond formation between elements, on bonding in cyclic and cage molecules and cluster compounds, including boron hydrides and Zintl ions. Symmetry of molecules and acid-base systems are also covered. The lecture also presents important principles and aspects of the coordination chemistry of transition and lanthanide group elements. The lecture covers the structure and bonding in complexes, mechanisms of the complex formation and their stability, magnetic properties of complexes, and Moessbauer spectroscopy.

Learning outcomes
- students will gain a good overview of the basic atomic properties of elements and their effects on structure, bonding situation, and chemical behavior of compounds.

- students will understand features of electronic structure and bonding situations in coordination compounds, properties of ligands and their influence on reactivity, magnetic properties, and solution equilibria.

- students will acquire understanding of the structure and bonding of borane clusters and Zintl ions.

Syllabus
  • 1. Periodic Table

    IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements, Electronic structure of atoms, Aufbau principle, atomic term symbols, exchange energies, Hunds rule, shielding, penetration, valence electron configurations, atomic properties, ionization energies, electron affinities, atomic, metallic, and ionic radii, oxidation state, electronegativity - Pauling, Allred-Rochow, Mulliken, Allen, Sanderson, electronegativity equalization principle, Mulliken-Jaffe, hybridization influence on electronegativity, electronegativity and chemical properties. Metals, metalloids, and non-metals.

    2. Symmetry

    Symmetry elements and operations, symmetry point groups.

    3. Chemical Bonding I

    Potential energy curve for a diatomic molecule, Morse potential, zero point energy, bond distances, bond dissociation energy, temperature and isotope effects, Pauling’s rules, bond valence sum, bond ionicity/covalency, van Arkel-Ketelaar triangle, normal and dative bond. Badger’s rule, bond order, multiple bonding in heavy elements, double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple bonds, multiple bonding in main group elements and transition metals.

    4. Chemical Bonding II

    Inverted bond, sigma- and pi-hole interactions, bond-stretch isomerism, spin crossover, relativistic effects, Au, Hg, Po, auriophilicity, isolobal relation of LAu+ to H+, auration reactions, proper and improper H-bond, dihydrogen bond.

    5. Acid-base Chemistry

    Acidity of metal ions in water, superacids, solvoacids, Hammet function, Lewis acidity/basicity scales, carborane acids, carbene bases, superbases – phosphatranes, proton sponges, frustrated Lewis pairs, low-coordinate molecules and cations, silicium, non-coordinating anions.

    6. Rings and Polyhedra I

    The structure and the properties of allotropic forms of carbon, diamond, graphite and fullerenes, bonding in fullerene molecules and their chemical reactivity, endohedral fullerenes, nanotubes, chemical properties of graphite, graphite intercalation compounds. Allotropic forms of group 14, 15, and 16 elements. Zintl phases, PSEPT and structures of Zintl ions. Polyhedral molecules, AlN-clusters, Smiths rule, BN, BP, AlP, GaP trimers, phosphazenes. Wades rules, classification and nomenclature of neutral boranes and hydroborate dianions, carboranes and other heteroboranes, boron halides with closed deltahedral Bn cores, bonding in boranes, the 3-centre-2-electron B-H-B and BBB interactions, Lipscomb's styx rules, Polyhedral Skeletal Electron Pair Theory (PSEPT) and prediction of a borane cluster structure, closo-nido-arachno-hypho, electron precise clusters.

    7. Rings and Polyhedra II

    Polyoxometallates, polyoxoanions, Lindqvist, Anderson, Keggin, Wells–Dawson, and Preyssler, clusters Ag490, Mo368. Reticular chemistry, MOF, COF, zeolites, sodalite unit. Aromaticity, organometallic clusters, metal clusters, Aun(SR)x, magic numbers, nanoparticles.

    8. Coordination Chemistry

    Coordination particle, central atom, ligands, their properties, coordination number and coordination polyhedra, nomenclature of coordination compounds, ligand coordination modes, stability of complexes, isomerism of complex compounds, chelates, chelate effect. Electronic structure and properties of complexes, ligand field theory, ligand field stabilization energy, 18-electron rule, spectrochemical series, MO diagrams metal complexes, classification of ligand types, magnetic properties, complex formation mechanisms, trans-effect, redox reactions, inner- and outer-sphere processes.

    9. Lanthanides and Transuranium Elements

    Chemistry of lanthanides, lanthanide contraction, and its consequences, new discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements.

    10. Magnetochemistry

    Electron spin and angular momenta, magnetic moment, magnetic susceptibility, permeability, diamagnetism and paramagnetism, Curie law, Curie-Weiss law, paramagnetism in metal complexes, orbital angular momentum contribution, spin-orbit coupling, Landé formula, Van Vleck equation, Brillouin function, cooperative magnetism, ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism, Curie and Neel temperatures, magnetic anisotropy, easy axis, magnetic domains, hysteresis loop, single molecule magnets, anisotropy barrier, superparamagnetism in nanoparticles, blocking temperature.

    11. Moessbauer spectroscopy

    Recoilless nuclear resonance absorption, experimental setup, hyperfine interactions, isomer shift, second-order Doppler shift, electric quadrupole interaction, electric field gradient, quadrupole splitting, magnetic dipole interaction, 119Sn and 57Fe Moessbauer spectroscopy.

Literature
    required literature
  • HOUSECROFT, Catherine E. and A. G. SHARPE. Anorganická chemie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze, 2014, xxx, 1119. ISBN 9788070808726. info
    recommended literature
  • GREENWOOD, N. N. and Alan EARNSHAW. Chemistry of the elements. Second edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997, xxii, 1341. ISBN 0750633654. info
  • HOLLEMAN, Arnold F. and Egon WIBERG. Lehrbuch der anorganischen Chemie. Edited by Gerd Fischer - Nils Wiberg. 102., stark umgearb. und ver. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007, xxxix, 214. ISBN 9783110177701. info
    not specified
  • SHRIVER, D. F. and P. W. ATKINS. Inorganic chemistry. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xvii, 763. ISBN 019850330X. info
  • COTTON, F. Albert. Advanced inorganic chemistry. 6th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999, xv, 1355. ISBN 0471199575. info
  • HOUSECROFT, Catherine E. and A. G. SHARPE. Inorganic chemistry. 4th ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2012, xl, 1213. ISBN 9780273742753. info
  • HESLOP, R. B. Inorganic chemistry : a guide to advanced study. 3rd compl. rev. ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1967, 774 s. info
  • MINGOS, D. M. P. Essentials of inorganic chemistry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 91 s. ISBN 0198559186. info
  • MINGOS, D. M. P. Essential trends in inorganic chemistry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, vi, 392. ISBN 0198501099. info
  • HOUSECROFT, Catherine E. Cluster molecules of the p-block elements. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 91 s. ISBN 0198556985. info
  • TAYLOR, Roger. Lecture notes on fullerene chemistry. London: Imperial College Press, 1999, 268 pp. ISBN 1-86094-109-5. info
  • BURGESS, John. Metal ions in solution. John Wiley & Sons, 1978, 481 pp. ISBN 0-470-26293-1. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, 3 homeworks, student presentations
Assessment methods
Written examination test for 2 hours, 100 points, 50 to pass.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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