Monthly Archives: October 2011

21. Oct 24

Ch. 9  Coordination Compounds: Structures

pp. 326-338

HW: Probs 2,3,4,8,9,11,12,13,14,17,19,22

Oct_24.ppt

Goals:  Memorize common ligand names, and convert formulae into structure (and vice versa); Distinguish isomers (fac/mer/cis/trans/chirality)

20. Fri Oct 21

EXAM II Next week!  Friday at 7pm

Coordination Chemistry: structures and isomers

Chapter 9, pp 321-327

Slides:  Oct_21.ppt

HW: Probs 2,3,4,8,9,11,12,13,14,17,19,22 (same as for Monday!)

Goals: Draw Lewis structures for dative bond structures; Predict oxidation states of Werner compounds

17. Oct 14

Remember your Help Sessions!

Molecular Orbitals

SLIDES: Oct_14.ppt

Chapter 5, pp 143-149

HW: Ex 5.3; #13, 14, 15, 16, 23; Generate MO diagram for CO on your own (answer is figure 5.14)

Goals: Describe polar bonds wrt Potential Energy; Construct MO diagram for heteronuclear diatomics; ID frontier MO’s

16. Oct 12

Molecular Orbitals

SLIDES:  Oct_12.ppt

Chapter 5, pp 133-143

HW:7, 8, 9, 12, sketch PES for Be2 and F2

Goals: recognize orbital mixing affects energy; interpret photoelectron specta (PES) using MO diagrams; memorize trends in AO potential energy (electronegativity trend)

14. Friday Oct 7

Friday Oct. 7

Announcement: Help Sessions are now available every week! See the upper bar for info…

Chapter 4, p 102: Chapter 5, p161 (Fig 5.29)

HW: (Fig 5.29).  Identify the specific atomic orbitals used for each MO of H2O (eg: px and (s-s); pz and (s+s));  Assign each MO of H2O as bonding, non-bonding, or anti-bonding.

Goals: Identify point group symmetry of molecules; Assign AOs and LGOs to Irreducible Representation w/ Character Table

Oct_7.ppt_slides

Chapter4_MT_Answers