Professor
Charles G. Riordan
LDL 211
x1073
riordan@udel.edu
Topics to be discussed in approximate
order (and subject to change):
Weeks
1 and 2: Bonding theories and their applications to the transition metals
Weeks 3 and 4: Coordination chemistry
including electronic structure and spectroscopy
Weeks 5 and 6: Reactivity and Mechanisms
Week 7: Magnetism
Week 8: Metal-metal bonding and clusters
Weeks 9 and 10: Electron Transfer Theory
and Reactions
Week 11: Organometallic Chemistry
Week 12: Bioinorganic Chemistry
Week 13 and 14: In-class presentations
Last
updated: August 31, 2009