Explores the Spectrochemical Series for metals and ligands, Crystal Field Splitting, Jahn-Teller distortion, and bonding interactions in coordination compounds.
Covers the determination of symmetry species for molecular orbitals in various molecules and the irreducible representations of metal orbitals in a square planar complex.
Covers coordination numbers, common ligands, and preferred geometries in coordination chemistry, emphasizing the spatial distribution between ligands and the role of d⁸ electron configurations.
Explores advanced catalyst characterization techniques, including CO stretching frequency shifts on Pt surfaces and reflection techniques for studying events at interfaces.
Explores Infrared Spectroscopy in bonding with a focus on carbonyl compounds and discusses the factors influencing the color of transition metal complexes.
