First Isolation of the AsP3 Molecule

Submitted by Anne Bentley / Lewis & Clark College on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 13:47
Description

Early in 2009, Christopher Cummins’ group at MIT reported (in Science) the synthesis of AsP3, a compound that had never been isolated at room temperature.  Later that year, a full article was published in JACS comparing the properties and reactivity of AsP3 to those of its molecular cousins, P4 and As4.  The longer article is full of possibilities for discussion in inorganic chemistry courses, with topics including periodic trends, NMR, vibrational spectroscopy, electrochemistry, molecular orbital theory, and coordination chemistry.

Medicinal Applications of Organometallic Compounds

Submitted by Sibrina Collins / College of Arts and Sciences at Lawrence Technological University on Sat, 07/17/2010 - 14:51
Description
This learning object focuses on concepts of bioorganmetallic chemistry. I use an article published in Chemical and Engineering News (Dagani, R. “The Bio Side of Organometallics,”Chem. Eng. News, 2002, 80(37), pp 23-29) to introduce students to this field. This activity consists of two components, namely writing a two-page summary of the article and using an in-class activity focused on the concepts of geometry, Crystal Field Theory (CFT) and proposing a mechanism for an overall chemical reaction.

Student-Led Organometallics

Submitted by Adam Johnson / Harvey Mudd College on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 19:42
Description

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.

Palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions

Submitted by Brette / Harvey Mudd College on Thu, 12/24/2009 - 22:33
Description
This powerpoint presentation was created as part of the requirements for Chemistry 165 "Organometallics" at Harvey Mudd College during the fall semester 2009.  The authors of this presentation are Athena Anderson, Brette Chapin, Michelle Hansen, and Kanny Wan, all HMC students.  The activity consists of three items:  a powerpoint presentation, a script that goes along with the presentation, and a literature review (annotated bibliography) for further reading.  All figures in the powerpoint presentation were created by the authors to prevent copyright violations.

Shilov Chemistry

Submitted by Allegra Liberman-Martin / UC Berkeley on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 16:29
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This powerpoint presentation was created as part of the requirements for Chemistry 165 "Organometallics" at Harvey Mudd College during the fall semester 2009.  The authors of this presentation are Allegra Liberman-Martin (Scripps College), Levi Moore (Pomona College), Drexel Proctor (Pomona College) and Giselle Sullivan (Scripps College).  The activity consists of three items:  a powerpoint presentation, a script that goes a

Kevin Shaughnessy's Organometallic Chemistry Course

Submitted by Barbara Reisner / James Madison University on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 23:48
Description
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.

Energy Nuggets: Wise Energy Use – The Challenge of Nitrogen Fixation

Submitted by Maggie Geselbracht / Reed College on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 01:33
Description
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.

Catalytic cycles and artistry: Chalk Drawing 101

Submitted by Adam Johnson / Harvey Mudd College on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 14:19
Description

This is how I always end my organometallics unit in my advanced inorganic chemistry class.  The students have already learned electron counting, the major reaction types (oxidative addition (OA), reductive elimination (RE), 1,1- and 1,2-insertion, β­-hydrogen elimination, and [2+2] cycloadditi­ons), and have gone through naming elementary steps in class for some classic catalytic cycles (hydrogenation with Wilkinson's catalyst and the Monsanto acetic acid process).

Inorganic Challenges

Submitted by Patrick Holland / Yale University on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 15:39
Description

The Interactive Inorganic Challenge Forum is a resource for inorganic chemistry teachers who want to incorporate team learning questions (“Challenges”) into an upper level undergraduate inorganic course. Through this site, teachers can exchange their ideas with others who have used inorganic chemistry Challenges. As a result, students benefit from field-tested group questions.

Ligand Substitution Kinetics Worksheet

Submitted by Nancy Williams / Scripps College, Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 12:23
Description

This worksheet gives students practice with deriving and analyzing the rate laws for two step mechanisms. It's a good review of steady-state kinetics, the assumptions one makes in deriving rate laws, and rate determining steps (and how these last affect the rate law). It finishes by connecting these ligand substitution kinetics to Michaelis-Menton kinetics to show that "it's all the same math, we just change the form". 

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