Co-Ordination Chemistry (Chemistry of Transition Elements) : Course Outline
Co-Ordination Chemistry (Chemistry of Transition Elements) : Course Outline
Co-Ordination Chemistry (Chemistry of Transition Elements) : Course Outline
COURSE OUTLINE :
It will give an excellent opportunity to study and use the century old Nobel prize winning knowledge of coordination
chemistry. The study will also lead to understand the difference between a coordinated ligand and charge balancing
ion in a coordination compound. Complexation reactions, stability constants, structures, geometrical and optical
isomerism, bonding, reactions and reactivity will be discussed. Color and electronic, and magnetic properties will be
delineated with respect to their application in analytical chemistry, industry and medicine. Use of coordination
compounds of some precious metal ions will be explained in relation to homogeneous catalysis for the production
of useful organic and pharmaceutically important substances.
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Debashis Ray is an M.Sc. (Gold Medalist) from Burdwan University in 1985 and did his Ph. D.from IACS (degree
from Jadavpur University) in 1989 and in faculty roll of IIT Kharagpur from 1990. Specialization: Inorganic Chemistry,
Coordination Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry. Received INSA YS Medal in 1994 and CRSI
Bronze Medal in 2007. Visited Indiana University during 1995 availing BOYSCAST fellowship of Govt of India, Oxford
University in 2001 using INSA-RSC exchange program and was a Humboldt Fellow during 2002-2003 in MPI,
Muelheim, Germany.
COURSE PLAN :
Week 01 : Introduction - Definitions and Classification of Ligands
Week 02 : Nomenclature
Week 03 : Coordination Number and Stereochemistry
Week 04 : Structures, Symmetries Isomerism and Coordination Equilibria
Week 05 : Bonding in Complexes
Week 06 : Jahn-Teller Effect and Spin Crossover
Week 07 : Colors and Optical Spectra
Week 08 : Orgel and Tanabe Sugano Diagrams
Week 09 : Applications of CFT and Spinels
Week 10 : Magnetochemistry
Week 11 : Ligand Field Theory – Sigma and Pi Orbitals
Week 12 : Reactions, Reactivity and Biological Inorganic Chemistry