CH3022:03
Inorganic Chemistry
Townsville
Prerequisites: CH2022
30 lectures, 6 tutorials, 36 hours practicals. First semester.
Staff: Dr P Junk, Professor R Keene.
Organometallic chemistry – bonding, reactions and industrial applications of organometallic compounds. Solid state chemistry – the structure of ionic solids, the defect solid state/nonstoichiometry and their consequences in applications such as photography, semiconductivity, superconductivity, heterogeneous catalysis, corrosion and tarnishing. Bioinorganic chemistry – the involvement of transition metal centres in the oxygen cycle, electron-transfer proteins.
Learning Objectives:
- to provide students with a broad knowledge of modern inorganic chemistry;
- to provide a suitable background for students who wish to embark in the study of advanced topics in inorganic chemistry either at the final year undergraduate or the postgraduate level;
- to provide knowledge of the application of inorganic chemistry in a number of chemical processes and techniques;
- to provide insight into the philosophical basis of science as expressed though inorganic chemistry.
Assessment by a three-hour examination (75%); practical reports (25%).