Unit · year 2
CU-207 · Coordination Chemistry
Threads bonding · structure25 lectures5 results
Transition-metal complexes: their bonding, colour and shape.
Lectures
| L01 | Transition Metals and the d-Block — |
| L02 | Complexes, Ligands, and Donor Atoms — |
| L03 | Coordination Number |
| L04 | Common Coordination Geometries |
| L05 | Nomenclature of Complexes — |
| L06 | Werner's Coordination Theory — |
| L07 | Monodentate and Polydentate Ligands |
| L08 | The Chelate Effect |
| L09 | The Entropic Origin of Chelate Stability |
| L10 | Stability Constants |
| L11 | Structural Isomerism in Complexes |
| L12 | Geometric Isomerism: Cis and Trans |
| L13 | Optical Isomerism in Complexes |
| L14 | The Valence Bond Description — |
| L15 | Crystal Field Theory |
| L16 | Octahedral Splitting |
| L17 | Tetrahedral and Square-Planar Splitting |
| L18 | High-Spin and Low-Spin Complexes |
| L19 | Crystal Field Stabilisation Energy |
| L20 | The Spectrochemical Series |
| L21 | Colour and d–d Transitions |
| L22 | Magnetic Properties of Complexes |
| L23 | The Jahn–Teller Effect |
| L24 | Ligand Field Theory and Covalent Bonding — |
| L25 | Synthesis: Structure, Colour, and Magnetism |
Results in this unit
T-065
Crystal field theory
d-orbital splitting in an octahedral ligand field.
T-066
Colour and the spectrochemical series
Why coordination complexes are coloured.
T-067
The chelate effect
Entropy stabilises multidentate complexes.
T-068
Isomerism in complexes
Geometric and optical isomers of coordination compounds.
T-069
Coordination number and geometry
Predicting the shapes of metal complexes.