A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry – Volume 1

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Dalal Institute, Jan 1, 2017 - Science - 480 pages

An advanced-level textbook of inorganic chemistry for the graduate (B.Sc) and postgraduate (M.Sc) students of Indian and foreign universities.

This book is a part of four volume series, entitled "A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry – Volume I, II, III, IV".

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1. Stereochemistry and Bonding in Main Group Compounds: VSEPR theory; dπ -pπ bonds; Bent rule and energetic of hybridization.

Chapter 2. Metal-Ligand Equilibria in Solution: Stepwise and overall formation constants and their interactions; Trends in stepwise constants; Factors affecting stability of metal complexes with reference to the nature of metal ion and ligand; Chelate effect and its thermodynamic origin; Determination of binary formation constants by pH-metry and spectrophotometry.

Chapter 3. Reaction Mechanism of Transition Metal Complexes – I: Inert and labile complexes; Mechanisms for ligand replacement reactions; Formation of complexes from aquo ions; Ligand displacement reactions in octahedral complexes- acid hydrolysis, base hydrolysis; Racemization of tris chelate complexes; Electrophilic attack on ligands.

Chapter 4. Reaction Mechanism of Transition Metal Complexes – II: Mechanism of ligand displacement reactions in square planar complexes; The trans effect; Theories of trans effect; Mechanism of electron transfer reactions – types; outer sphere electron transfer mechanism and inner sphere electron transfer mechanism; Electron exchange.

Chapter 5. Isopoly and Heteropoly Acids and Salts: Isopoly and Heteropoly acids and salts of Mo and W: structures of isopoly and heteropoly anions.

Chapter 6. Crystal Structures: Structures of some binary and ternary compounds such as fluorite, antifluorite, rutile, antirutile, crystobalite, layer lattices- CdI2, BiI3; ReO3, Mn2O3, corundum, pervoskite, Ilmenite and Calcite.

Chapter 7. Metal-Ligand Bonding: Limitation of crystal field theory; Molecular orbital theory: octahedral, tetrahedral or square planar complexes; π-bonding and molecular orbital theory.

Chapter 8. Electronic Spectra of Transition Metal Complexes: Spectroscopic ground states, Correlation and spin-orbit coupling in free ions for Ist series of transition metals; Orgel and Tanabe-Sugano diagrams for transition metal complexes (d1 – d9 states); Calculation of Dq, B and β parameters; Effect of distortion on the d-orbital energy levels; Structural evidence from electronic spectrum; John-Tellar effect; Spectrochemical and nephalauxetic series; Charge transfer spectra; Electronic spectra of molecular addition compounds.

Chapter 9. Magantic Properties of Transition Metal Complexes: Elementary theory of magneto - chemistry; Guoy’s method for determination of magnetic susceptibility; Calculation of magnetic moments; Magnetic properties of free ions; Orbital contribution, effect of ligand-field; Application of magneto-chemistry in structure determination; Magnetic exchange coupling and spin state cross over.

Chapter 10. Metal Clusters: Structure and bonding in higher boranes; Wade’s rules; Carboranes; Metal carbonyl clusters - low nuclearity carbonyl clusters; Total electron count (TEC).

Chapter 11. Metal-π Complexes: Metal carbonyls: structure and bonding; Vibrational spectra of metal carbonyls for bonding and structure elucidation; Important reactions of metal carbonyls; Preparation, bonding, structure and important reactions of transition metal nitrosyl, dinitrogen and dioxygen complexes; Tertiary phosphine as ligand.

 

Selected pages

Contents

CHAPTER 1
11
CHAPTER 2
44
CHAPTER 3
70
CHAPTER 4
96
CHAPTER 5
123
CHAPTER 6
154
CHAPTER 7
180
CHAPTER 8
214
CHAPTER 9
342
CHAPTER 10
386
CHAPTER 11
426
INDEX
471
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2017)

Mandeep Dalal is an Indian research scholar who is primarily working in the field of science and philosophy. He received his Ph.D in chemistry from Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU Rohtak) in 2018. He founded "Dalal Institute" (India’s best coaching centre for academic and competitive chemistry exams) in 2012 as an initiative to revolutionize the field of school-level and higher education in chemistry across the globe. He has published more than 40 research papers in various international scientific journals; including mostly from Elsevier (USA), IOP (UK), and Springer Nature (Switzerland). He has also authored several advanced-level chemistry textbooks which are widely followed in the classrooms of Indian and foreign universities (including IITs).

Bibliographic information

TitleA Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry – Volume 1
AuthorMandeep Dalal
PublisherDalal Institute, 2017
ISBN8193872002, 9788193872000
Length480 pages
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Science / Chemistry / Inorganic
  
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