Solid State Chemistry - A physics perspective
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I found this website really useful for explaining basic solid state concepts.
Kevin Shaughnessy's Organometallic Chemistry Course
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On this website, Kevin Shaughnessy (of the University of Alabama) has very detailed lecture notes for his course in Organometallic Chemistry (CH609). He also posts problem sets and old exams and provides other resources for students enrolled in a course in organometallic chemistry.
Siderophore Building: In class Exercise
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This is an in-class exercise (brainstorming) designed to lead the student through the design of a siderophore (or "iron lover") by applying his knowledge of Lewis acid- base chemistry (specifically HSAB theory), geometry and entropy. This is a good start for a discussion of iron transport and storage in the bioinorganic section of Inorganic II (transition metals). I also use it in my junior level descriptive course when we discuss coordination chemistry.
Metals in Acid Base Chemistry
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This is a simple in class exercise to review acid- base equilibria and to lead the students to thinking about metals as both Lewis and Bronsted- Lowry acids. I use it as a discussion starter when I introduce the role of metals in biological acid/base chemistry in my upper division inorganic course, but it can be used at any level once acid-base equilibria has been covered.
Bioinorganic Chemistry- Metals in Purely Structural Roles
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This is a discussion leader to bring students into the topic of "Metals in Biochemistry- Structural Roles" by reminding them of pieces they already know from General Chemistry and other courses.
One hour lanthanides overview
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This is a set of 36 slides with an overview on the history, production, industrial applications, coordination and organometallic chemistry of the lanthanides. This is a condensed version of a semester long course for graduate students. It does not include any lanthanides spectroscopy. Some of the content was obtained from Prof. Jean-Claude Bunzli's lectures on lanthanides and actinides.
Coordination chemistry via Inorganic Chemistry ASAP
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This in-class activity is a fun way to show students how to apply basic concepts of coordination chemistry to complicated systems that appear in a recent issue of Inorganic Chemistry. After quickly reviewing types of ligands (monodentate, chelating, bridging), how we assign charge to ligands and metals in complexes, and the idea of coordination number, I took my class through a number of "real world" examples from the latest ASAP edition of Inorganic Chemistry.
Bioinorganic Techniques in a Nutshell
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This website is from the Center for Metalloenzyme Studies at the University of Georgia. It contains brief summaries of common techniques used in bioinorganic chemistry. I really liked that for each technique lists what kind of information you can obtain, as well as what the limitations of the method are. It also provides examples of what kinds of questions can be answered with each technique. It does not provide in-depth information about how each method works, but rather simply lists the basic facts about each technique.
Computational Organometallic Chemistry
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Lecture given at NSF-CENTC 2008 workshop on modeling in organometallic chemistry.
In-Class Review of Symmetry Operations and Point Groups
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This in-class activity was used on the first day of Advanced Inorganic Chemistry in lieu of lecture to review symmetry operations and point groups in small molecules. The learning object was adapted to a small group discussion format from a fundamental quiz posted by Barbara Reisner (James Madison University) and a problem set question posted by Adam Johnson (Harvey Mudd College).