22. Wed Oct 26

Chapter 9, Coordination Chemistry

336-344 (skip the section on chelate ring conformation)

Goals: Distinguish isomers: constitutional, linkage, hydrate, ionization

HW: see Monday!

3 thoughts on “22. Wed Oct 26

  1. rbishop

    In class, I thought you had said that we did not need to know how to construct the group orbitals – should we not worry about the parts of the homework questions that ask us to draw group orbitals?

  2. mjknapp Post author

    I will give you the LGOs whenever they are needed. I see that problem 5.18 (ozone) does not give you the LGOs ahead of time – if such a problem were on the exam, I would remedy that oversight.

    You should recognize the shape and phase of the LGOs, and be able to make MOs with the central atom (or nonbonding MOs if appropriate).

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