Assessment (see: study control). An oral exam, duration cca 45 min.

R: J. Ribas Gispert: Coordination Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-527-31802-5

A: Y. Jean: Molecular Orbitals of Transition Metal Complexes, OxfordUP, 2005, ISBN: 0-19-853093-5

A: selected chapters in inorganic chemistry textbooks (Housecroft-Sharpe, Cotton-Wilkinson, Jolly, Wulfsberg, Greenwood-Earnshaw)

Every week a task related to actual topic is given. To obtain the assesment, students should have to at least 7 times work out these tasks.

1. History of coordination chemistry

2. Crystal Field Theory, Ligand Field Theory.

3. Molecular orbitals in coordination compounds.

4. Coordination polyhedra, fluxionality. Continuous symmetry concept..

5. Isomerism. Description ad determination of the absolute configuration.

6. Stability of coordination compounds, mechanisms of ligand substitution.

7. Ligands and their classification: nature of donor atoms, bonding possibilities. Chelates.

8. Metal - ligand interaction from the Lewis acid-base theory’s point of view.

9. Allyl complexes, metallocenes, cyclic ligands, template effect.

10. Polynuclear complexes, clusters.

11. Changes of ligand properties and reactivity after coordination to a metal centre.

12. Spectroscopy of coordination compounds. Photochemical reactions.

13. Magnetic properties of coordination compounds. Molecular magnets.

14. Electron transfer mechanisms.

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Students will be able to:

Use the basic coordination chemistry notions

Distinguish access CFT, LFT and MO theory, know their advantages and applicability limits

Explain the typical properties of coordination compounds using an appropriate model

Understand the primary literature and monographs.

Inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry