INORGANIC STEREOISOMERISM
cod. 18361

Academic year 2009/10
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Chimica generale e inorganica (CHIM/03)
Field
Discipline inorganiche chimico-fisiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

<br />To introduce second year students of Chemistry degree to a study in depth of the general aspects of inorganic stereoisomerism.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br />Coordination Chemistry: structural aspects and isomerism. Costitutional isomerism. Stereoisomerism: general aspects of stereochemical notation in coordination chemistry. Two-, three-, four-, five-, and six-coordinate complexes. Isomerism from ligand distribution and unsymmetrical ligands. Isomer enumeration. Isomerism from ligand conformation and chirality. Chirality and the special nomenclature of chiral coordination complexes. Optical activity.<br /> 

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />K. F. Purcell, J. C. Kotz, Inorganic Chemistry<br />Alexander von Zelewsky, Stereochemistry of Coordination Compounds

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