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.
Explores Infrared Spectroscopy in bonding with a focus on carbonyl compounds and discusses the factors influencing the color of transition metal complexes.
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.
