Details of CH4214 (Spring 2021)

Level: 4 Type: Theory Credits: 4.0

Course CodeCourse NameInstructor(s)
CH4214 Physical Inorganic and Adv. Bioinorganic Chemistry Arindam Mukherjee,
Sumit Khanra

Syllabus
Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy of Transition metal ions
Recapitulation of principles, d-d transitions, MLCT, LMCT & LLCT transitions correlating with
active sites of some bioinorganic complexes.
Molecular Magnetism in Inorganic & Bioinorganic Chemistry
Basic principles. Curie Law, Curie-Weiss Law and their representations. TC, TN. Spin and orbital
magnetic moments (so & L). Term symbols and correlation of orbital magnetic moments with
A, E, T ground term. Spin-Orbit coupling () and deviation of so. Exchange coupled polynuclear
compounds: Dinuclear, Trinuclear, HDVV Hamiltonian, Exchange-Coupling constant,
determination of Spin-Hamiltonian parameters (J). Special emphasis on Cu, Fe, Mn relevant to
bioinorganic chemistry. Metal-radical interactions.
EPR spectroscopy
Principles, g values, isotropic and anisotropic (axial, rhombic) spectrum correlation with
geometries of the compounds, Hyperfine interaction & hyperfine coupling constant (A).
Determination of g and A values from spectroscopy. Variation of g with spin-orbit coupling
constant. Zero-field Spliting: Axial (D) & Rhombic (E). Representation of systems containing
ZFS. Determination of SH parameters (D, E) from Hamiltonian and spectroscopic data..
Establishment of valence localized or delocalized structure from the spectroscopic data.
Description of certain examples related to inorganic complexes and bioinorganic active sites.
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Recapitulation of principles & Elucidation of relevant bioinorganic active sites via IR & Raman
Spectroscopy.
Mossbauer Spectroscopy:
Principles & aspects of 57Fe spectroscopy. Isomer Shift (), Quadruple Splitting (EQ). Hyperfine
interaction and hyperfine coupling constant. Examples of High-spin & low spin Fe compounds.
Understanding functional aspects of transition metal compounds towards bioinorganic
catalysis with the above mentioned tools.

References

Course Credit Options

Sl. No.ProgrammeSemester NoCourse Choice
1 IP 2 Not Allowed
2 IP 4 Not Allowed
3 IP 6 Not Allowed
4 MR 2 Not Allowed
5 MR 4 Not Allowed
6 MS 10 Not Allowed
7 MS 4 Not Allowed
8 MS 6 Not Allowed
9 MS 8 Not Allowed
10 RS 1 Elective
11 RS 2 Elective