Lectures: Bonding models for metals and for transition metal compounds; interpretation of redox and thermodynamic properties based on ligand field theory; coordination and organometallic compounds of the transition metals; metal complexes as catalysts in industry and biology. Laboratory: Synthesis, analysis, and physical investigations of transition metal compounds which illustrate their important properties.
This course may not be repeated for credit.

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This course will be offered next in Winter 2012.