Lectures related to Transition Metal Complexes

Organometallic Chemistry: Fundamentals

Covers the fundamentals of organometallic chemistry, including ligand types, bonding, reactivity, and applications in catalysis and medicine.

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.

Crystal Field Theory: Square Planar Complexes

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

Stability of Complexes

Explores the concept of 18 valence electrons and the stability of metal-ligand complexes.

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Metal Carbonyls and Their Applications: Understanding Catalysis

Discusses metal carbonyls and carbines, focusing on their bonding, reactivity, and applications in catalysis.

Chemical Bonding: Lewis Structures

Explores electronic configurations, chemical bonding, and Lewis structures for stable octets and shared electrons.

Homogeneous Catalysis Basics

Introduces the basics of homogeneous catalysis, focusing on reaction mechanisms and catalyst design.

Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination

Explores oxidative addition, reductive elimination, insertion reactions, and factors influencing these reactions in organometallic chemistry.

Chemical Bonding: Lewis Structures and Molecular Shapes

Explores chemical bonding, Lewis structures, molecular shapes, and molecular polarity.

Advanced General Chemistry I

Covers advanced topics in general chemistry, including the periodic table, electronegativity, exceptions to the octet rule, and chemical bonding.

Atomic Structure: Quantum Mechanics

Covers atomic theory, Schrödinger equation, quantum numbers, electron configurations, and periodic properties of elements.

Molecular Orbitals: Bonding and Hybridization

Explores the transition from atomic to molecular orbitals, covering quantum systems, approximations, valence electrons, and covalent bonds.

Electronic Structure of Atoms: Polyelectronic Atoms

Explores the electronic structure of polyelectronic atoms, electron repulsion, effective nuclear charge, and atomic properties.

Chemical Bonds: Lewis Structures and Molecular Geometry

Explains chemical bonding, focusing on Lewis structures and molecular geometry using VSEPR theory.

Reactivity towards Oxidation: Ligand Loss and Product Formation

Covers the reactivity towards oxidation and product formation after ligand loss.

Electronic Configuration and Periodic Table

Explores electronic configuration, periodic trends, and the structure of the periodic table.

Quantum Atom Model

Explores the quantum atom model, including orbitals, electron configurations, and the Pauli exclusion principle.

Ligand Field Theory

Explores Ligand Field Theory, color theory, transition metal complexes, and protein stability.

Alkenes in Organometallic Chemistry

Explores alkene complexes, their bonding, synthesis methods, and nucleophilic attack rationalization in organometallic chemistry.