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CHEM202 Inorganic Chemistry

Updated: 22 December 2008
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus
Online level Level B - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
17 September 2009 20 September 2009 Mandatory
Supervised Exam November
Pre-requisites CHEM120 or CHEM120A or candidature in a postgraduate award in the School of Environmental and Rural Science or School of Science and Technology
Co-requisites None
Restrictions CHEM202A
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Peter Lye (plye@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

Valence-bond and molecular orbital theories of bonding and structure in polyatomic molecules of s- and p-block elements; hybridisation, resonance and electronegativity. Simple band theory of metals and semiconductors. The ionic bond - structures of inorganic solids; lattice energy. Transition metal coordination chemistry; introductory ligand field theory; stability constants, mechanisms, and magnetism.

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