Details of CH3101 (Autumn 2025)
| Level: 3 | Type: Theory | Credits: 4.0 |
| Course Code | Course Name | Instructor(s) |
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| CH3101 | Basic Transition Metal Chemistry | Parna Gupta, Venkataramanan Mahalingam |
| Syllabus |
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| 1. Chemical Bonding (5L)
Metal complexes and molecular orbitals: (10 lectures) Coordination compounds:composition, Isomerism, nomenclature Recapitulation: Crystal Field Theory, Ligand field stabilization energy, Spectrochemical series etc. (1L) Ligand Field Theory: Symmetry and Group Theoretical approach) (Excluding 2nd year syllabus) 2. Electronic Spectra (10L) Microstate, selection rule recapitulation(1L) If microstates were not taught in the 2nd year (1L more) Correlation diagrams (1L) Tanabe-Sugano diagrams(1L) Jahn-Teller Distortions , Charge-transfer Spectra(1L) Interpretation of Spectra d1 - d9 (Octahedral, Tetrahedral, high-spin, low spin (3L) 4. Magnetism (4L) Orbital and spin magnetic moments, spin only moments of dn ions and their correlation with effective magnetic moments. (1L) Curie law, para-, ferro, anti-ferro and ferri-magnetic systems (3L) 5. d-Block and f-block metals (14L) Physical properties, Oxidation States. Structural trends, Representative compounds, Metal-Metal Bond, Application |
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Course Credit Options
| Sl. No. | Programme | Semester No | Course Choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IP | 1 | Not Allowed |
| 2 | IP | 3 | Not Allowed |
| 3 | IP | 5 | Not Allowed |
| 4 | MP | 1 | Not Allowed |
| 5 | MP | 3 | Not Allowed |
| 6 | MR | 1 | Elective |
| 7 | MR | 3 | Not Allowed |
| 8 | MS | 3 | Not Allowed |
| 9 | MS | 5 | Core |
| 10 | MS | 7 | Not Allowed |
| 11 | MS | 9 | Not Allowed |
| 12 | RS | 1 | Not Allowed |
| 13 | RS | 2 | Not Allowed |