2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Science Undergraduate major in Chemistry
Exercise in Inorganic Chemistry II
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Chemistry
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroyuki Kawaguchi / Hidehiro Uekusa / Yutaka Ishida / Akiko Sekine / Makoto Harada / Yuki Wada / Megumi Okazaki / Kento Kosugi
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Wed
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- CHM.B303
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course aims to help students deepen their understanding of the content covered in 'Inorganic Chemistry II' through exercises. Specifically, students will learn about crystal structure analysis, group theory, and the electronic states, bonding, and reactions of metal complexes.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Evaluation of X-ray diffraction datea using basic crystallographic knowledge
2) Explain the geometry and electronic structure of metal complexes.
3) Understanding of the symmetry of molecules using group theory.
Keywords
point group, group theory, crystal field theory, ligand field theory, Wade's rule, Tanabe-Sugano's diagram,X-ray diffraction
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Each class provides an outline of basic concepts and then give students excercise problems related to the topic covered there on that day. Stuendts are required to leran outside of the classroom for preparation and review purposes under the instructor's guidance.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Powder X-ray diffraction | To easily confirm basic crystallographic knowledge and understand that the type of unit cell of a crystal can be determined by the extinction rule. Exercise to determine the type of unit cell and lattice constant of powder crystal from powder X-ray diffraction data. |
| Class 2 | Molecular symmetry and point group 1 | Exercise on molecular symmetry using group theory. |
| Class 3 | Molecular symmetry and point group 2 | Exercise on molecular symmetry using group theory. |
| Class 4 | Metal complex 1 | Exercise about metal complexes. Explain the molecular structure and electronic structure of a metal complex. |
| Class 5 | Metal complex 2 | Exercise about metal complexes. Explain the interaction between the central metal of the complex and the ligand. Explain the energy correlation diagram and the electronic spectrum. |
| Class 6 | Metal complex 3 | Exercise about metal complexes. Explain the interaction between the central metal of the complex and the ligand. Explain the energy correlation diagram and the electronic spectrum. |
| Class 7 | Metal complex 4 | Exercise about metal complexes. Explain the reactions of metal complexes. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
"Inorganic and analytical chemistry laboratory course text" Department of Chemistry.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
1) Shriver and Atkins, Inorganic Chemistry
2) Course materials are provided during class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students' knowledge of basic topics of inorganic chemistry covered in the course will be assessed by quizzes and reports.
Related courses
- CHM.B201 ： Inorganic Chemistry I
- CHM.B301 ： Inorganic Chemistry II
- CHM.B203 ： Exercise in Inorganic Chemistry I
- CHM.B202 ： Basic Analytical Chemistry
- CHM.B205 ： Laboratory Course in Basic Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
- CHM.B305 ： Laboratory Course in Advanced Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
Prerequisites
No prerequisites. However, this exercise strongly links to a student laboratory experiments course, so it is highly recommended to join the student labo experiment course.