Course

Unit 1:

Alkali and Alkaline Earth Metals[12 h]Synthesis and structure of hydrides, amides, alkoxides and coordination compounds of alkali and alkaline earth metals. Crown ethers and cryptands as complexing agents for alkali metal ions. Alkali and alkaline earth metals in liquid ammonia and other solvents. Unusual anions. Organometallic chemistry of alkali and alkaline earth metals – synthesis, structures, fluxionality and reactivity.

Unit 2:

Triels and Crystallogens[16 h]Synthesis, structure, bonding and reactivity of boron hydrides. STYX numbers. Wades rule – closo, nido and arachno structure of boranes, carboranes and metallocene carboranes. Borides. Compounds of triels with nitrogen and halogens. Allotropic forms of carbon – fullerenes, CNTs and graphenes. Carbides. Hypervalent carbon compounds. Compounds of crystallogens with nitrogen and halogens. Element to element multiple bond compounds Organometallic chemistry of boron, aluminium, gallium, indium, thallium, silicon, germanium and tin syntheses, structure and application.

Unit 3:

Pnictogen and Chalcogens[12 h]Preparation and properties of compounds of pnictogen and chalcogens with nitrogen, halogen and other important compounds. Element to element multiple bond compounds homonuclear and heteronuclear compounds, and d?-p? bonding. Organometallic compounds of phosphorous, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, sulphur, selenium and tellurium syntheses and properties.

Unit 4:

Halogen and Noble Gases[8 h]Application of hydrogen halides as nonaquous solvents. Halides of transition metals. Oxohalogen fluorides. Polyhalide anions and halogen cations. Apicophilicity. Chemistry of astatine. Synthesis and structure of fluorides, fluoroanions, fluorocation, oxo compounds of xenon and other elements of noble gases. Clathrate compounds.

Unit 5:

Inorganic Chains, Rings, Cages and Clusters[12 h]Introduction and nomenclature of inorganic polymers, chains, rings, cages and clusters. Borazine, boron cage compounds, sulphur-nitrogen compounds, polymeric sulphur nitride, silicates, polysilicone, fullerenes and polymers with P-N bonds. Isopoly anions, heteropoly anions, Keggin and Dawson polyoxometallates, metal clusters. Main group element clusters and main group element-transition metal mixed clusters.

CO01 Potential to describe the coordination and organometallic compounds’ properties, applications, and bonding patterns of alkali and alkaline earth metals and group V, VI, VII, and VIII elements

CO02 Ability to explain the bonding types and molecular structures in advanced chemistry, specifically for carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, boron, and phosphorus compounds.

CO03 Ability to comprehend the chemistry of inorganic polymers and their commercial applications

Recommended Readings

1.Cotton, F.A., Wilkinson, G., Murillo, C.A. and Bochmann, M., 1999. Advanced inorganic chemistry. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

2.Greenwood, N.N. and Earnshaw, A., 2012. Chemistry of the Elements. Elsevier.

3.Gonzlez-Moraga, G., 2013. Cluster chemistry: introduction to the chemistry of transition metal and main group element molecular clusters. Springer Science & Business Media.4.Akiba, K.Y., 2011. Organo Main Group Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons.

5.Huheey, J.E., Keiter, E.A., Keiter, R.L. and Medhi, O.K., 2006. Inorganic chemistry: principles of structure and reactivity. Pearson Education India.

6.Housecroft, C.E. and Sharpe, A.G., 2008. Inorganic chemistry (Vol. 1). Pearson Education.

7.Purcell, K.F. and Kotz, J.C., 2010. Inorganic chemistry. Holt-Saunders International Editions.