Coordination Chemistry: Structure & Bonding
A 25-module path through coordination chemistry: structure & bonding, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Coordination Compounds: Fundamental Concepts
- Ligands and Denticity
- Chelating and Polydentate Ligands
- Nomenclature of Coordination Compounds
- Coordination Numbers and Common Geometries
- Octahedral, Tetrahedral, and Square-Planar Geometries
- Structural (Constitutional) Isomerism in Complexes
- Linkage and Ambidentate Isomerism
- Stereoisomerism: Geometric (cis-trans, fac-mer) Isomers
- Optical Isomerism and Chirality in Complexes
- The Chelate Effect
- Crystal Field Theory: Basic Model and Assumptions
- Octahedral Crystal Field Splitting
- Tetrahedral Crystal Field Splitting
- Square-Planar Crystal Field Splitting
- Pairing Energy and Magnetic Moments
- Crystal Field Stabilization Energy (CFSE)
- CFSE and Thermodynamic/Structural Trends
- Jahn-Teller Distortion
- The Spectrochemical Series
- Limitations of Crystal Field Theory
- Ligand Field Theory: Sigma-Bonding MO Diagram (Octahedral)
- Pi-Donor and Pi-Acceptor Ligands
- Pi-Bonding and Rationalizing the Spectrochemical Series
- MO Description of Tetrahedral and Square-Planar Complexes