TOTAL COURSE RESULTS

Okay, this is what you really want to know.  Here are the scores for the final exam, ARS, and the overall sum total for the entire course.  I will enter these scores in SPIRE on Monday after Christmas.

Scores and grades:  2011_Scoresheet

The total score is:  (Fin) + (MT 1,2,3) + (ARS) – (lowest of MT or ARS)

The grade distribution was pretty good – alot of A’s.

I calculated the ARS score (82 possible) by dropping the lowest 15% of responses (maximum score of 70), then converting that score to a scale of 100 (ie: scores of 70 or more earned a 100 on ARS).

I then replaced your lowest midterm score with your ARS score (if it was higher).

 

36. Wed. Dec 7

Coordination Chemistry – Reactions
Chapter 12: 452, 454-463

HW:1 2 3 4 5 9 14 15 19

SLIDES:  Dec_7_inked

Goals: Rationalize LigExch products using mechanisms (SN1 and SN2)
Predict relative rates of ligand exchange wrt CFSE, ion radius, charge, coordination number
Memorize definition of these terms: anation, aquation, A/D/I mechanisms

Don’t worry about kinetic expressions!

Wed. November 30

Discussion of photochemistry / photophysics as related to solar energy:

Accounts of Chemical Research 2003, 36, 876-887.  Read the stuff in the red boxes, and read the figure captions in order to understand the figures.

JimACR

Slides:

Goals: interpret electronic spectra of coordination compounds (dd/LMCT/MLCT); interpret reactions of Ru(bpy)32+* in context of ground states and excited states.

33. Monday Nov 28

Discussion of photochemistry / photophysics as related to solar energy:

Accounts of Chemical Research 2003, 36, 876-887.  Read the stuff in the red boxes, and read the figure captions in order to understand the figures.

JimACR

Slides: Nov_28_inked

Goals: interpret electronic spectra of coordination compounds (dd/LMCT/MLCT); interpret reactions of Ru(bpy)32+* in context of ground states and excited states.