Lectures in course CH-222: Coordination chemistry

Coordination Chemistry: Transition Metals

Explores coordination chemistry principles with a focus on transition metals and their electronic configurations.

Coordination Chemistry: Ligands and Geometries

Covers coordination numbers, common ligands, and preferred geometries in coordination chemistry, emphasizing the spatial distribution between ligands and the role of d⁸ electron configurations.

Metal Complexes Stability and Formation Constants

Explores metal complexes stability, formation constants, and complex breaking mechanisms.

Crystal Field Stabilization Energy Calculation

Explains the calculation of crystal field stabilization energy for a high spin complex.

Metal Complex Stability

Explores the entropic effects and microscopic ligands in determining the stability of metal complexes.

Splitting Diagrams: Crystal Field Stabilization Energy

Explains splitting diagrams and Crystal Field Stabilization Energy calculations for transition metal complexes.

Coordination Isomers: Nomenclature and Isomers

Covers the nomenclature and isomers in coordination chemistry, focusing on naming conventions and different types of isomerism.

Coordination Chemistry: Chapter 3

Delves into Chapter 3 of Coordination Chemistry, exploring spherical and planar geometries, ligand effects, and MO diagrams.

Ligand Field Theory: Pi-Acceptors and Electrochemical Series

Explores ligand field theory, pi-acceptors, bonding in complexes, and spectrochemical series in 3-d metals.

Pi-Donor and P-Acceptor Ligands

Explores the impact of pi-donor and p-acceptor ligands on ligand field splitting diagrams and metal orbitals in coordination complexes.

Ligand Field Theory: Octahedral Coordination Complexes

Covers ligand field theory for octahedral coordination complexes with pure sigma donors.

Crystal Field Theory: Square Planar Complexes

Explores crystal field theory, focusing on square planar complexes and the spectrochemical series.

Crystal Field Theory: Octahedral and Tetragonal Distortions

Explores Crystal Field Theory, analyzing d orbital splitting in different geometries.

Coordination Chemistry: High Spin Complexes and Ligands

Explores high spin complexes and ligands in coordination chemistry, discussing their impact on metal ions' spin states and magnetic properties.

Enantiomers: Stereoisomers and Chirality

Explores enantiomers, stereo isomers that are non-superimposable mirror images, and their significance in chemistry.

Metal Coordination Complexes

Explores Laporte forbidden transitions, spin allowed and forbidden transitions, and metal coordination in octahedral complexes.

Optical Properties: Coordination Complexes

Explores the optical properties of coordination complexes and their color influences on materials through absorption and emission phenomena.

Magnetism: Coordination Complexes

Explores the magnetic properties of coordination complexes and the concept of paramagnetism.

Coordination Complexes: Chromium Bromide Hydrates

Explores the coordination chemistry of chromium bromide hydrates and the significance of water molecules in complex hydration.

Preparation & Stabilities of Complexes

Covers the preparation and stabilities of complexes, including redox reactions, substitution, and catalytic reactions.