Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

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This course heavily draws upon the basic principles of inorganic chemistry and applies them to transition metal chemistry. Topics include organometallic compounds, coordination compounds, point group symmetry, ligand field theory and its applications, electronic spectra, inorganic reaction mechanisms and extended solids. The relevance of these fundamental topics to the current literature will be explored. Students in this course are required to write a detailed term paper on a selected topic in inorganic chemistry from the recent literature that is then subjected to a peer-review process analogous to the process of reviewing articles in journal publications. Prerequisite: Inorganic Chemistry I, or equivalent, please see instructor. Lecture, three hours.