Using Solid State Chemistry and Crystal Field Theory to Design a New Blue Solid
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This communication from the Journal of the American Chemical Society (J. Am. Chem. Soc.
Preparation and Spectroscopic Characterization of the Classical Coordination Compounds Copper(II) and Silver(II) Picolinate.
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Powder Diffraction Crystallography Instructional Materials
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Brian Toby (Argonne National Labs) has assebled an excellent series of tutorials on using the Rietveld analysis technique for powder diffraction data. Tutorials range from an "Introduction to Crystallography" and "Getting Started with Rietveld" to using the "Le Bail Intensity Extraction" Method to "Advanced Rietveld Techniques."
Pyrophoric Liquid Safety Video
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This website is a video put out by UCLA and is a good general introduction to using pyrophorics. It would be good for required viewing for ALL researchers who intend to use Grignards, alkyl metals, organometallics, LiH, etc.
Updated June 2015 to provide a new link; the old link no longer worked.
Student-Led Organometallics
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I teach my organometallics course, a junior/senior level half-course, entirely as student-led presentations of the primary literature. In the past, the course was populated almost entirely with seniors who had already taken a one-semester advanced inorganic course. This past year, I taught it to juniors and seniors, and the juniors had not taken inorganic yet. A description of the course first appeared in J. Chem. Educ. in 2007 (link below). This VIPEr learning object is an update of the original paper based on my experience over the past two years.
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.
Energy Nuggets: Engineering Viruses to Build a Better Battery
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This literature discussion activity is one of a series of “Energy Nuggets,” small curricular units designed to illustrate: The Role of Inorganic Chemistry in the Global Challenge for Clean Energy Production, Storage, and Use.
Energy Nuggets: Wise Energy Use – The Challenge of Nitrogen Fixation
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This literature discussion activity is one of a series of “Energy Nuggets,” small curricular units designed to illustrate: The Role of Inorganic Chemistry in the Global Challenge for Clean Energy Production, Storage, and Use.
Fourier Transforms and the Phase Problem
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At the end of my inorganic course, I teach several "cool" spectroscopic techniques that inorganic chemists use. These techniques are discussed within the context of bioinorganic chemistry, and I typically cover EXAFS/XANES, X-ray crystallography, EPR and Mössbauer.
This website introduces (or reviews) Fourier Transforms in a neat graphical way, but most importantly, illustrates the phase problem. Given the intensities from your crystal and the phases from your model, the phases are more important! Which is too bad, as we don't have ready access to that information.
Energy Nuggets: MOF’s for CO2 Sequestration
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This literature discussion activity is one of a series of “Energy Nuggets,” small curricular units designed to illustrate: The Role of Inorganic Chemistry in the Global Challenge for Clean Energy Production, Storage, and Use.