Explores Infrared Spectroscopy in bonding with a focus on carbonyl compounds and discusses the factors influencing the color of transition metal complexes.
Discusses metal carbonyls and their applications in catalysis and chemical reactions, including the introduction of metal carbines and their significance in synthetic chemistry.
Explores the Spectrochemical Series for metals and ligands, Crystal Field Splitting, Jahn-Teller distortion, and bonding interactions in coordination compounds.
Covers coordination numbers, common ligands, and preferred geometries in coordination chemistry, emphasizing the spatial distribution between ligands and the role of d⁸ electron configurations.