CHEM451L

This l-credit laboratory course is the experimental companion of Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Lecture. Students perform one experiment in each of the following four sub-disciplines of inorganic chemistry: (1) Chemistry of the main group elements, (2) Chemistry of the transition metals, (3) Chemistry of organometallic compounds, and (4) Bio-inorganic chemistry. In addition, students will complete an additional experiment in (5) Applied Catalysis. Students use microscale techniques to synthesize compounds and several characterization techniques are used to analyze the products including: FTIR, NMR, GC, Visible spectrometry and magnetic moment using an Evans magnetic susceptibility balance. Each of the experiments takes approximately 2 to 4 weeks to complete, including synthesis and characterization for each. This course will reinforce the techniques and skills that synthetic inorganic chemists employ in their work and students will be encouraged to develop their lab skills in an independent manner.