Hosmane Narayan S. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Applications in Everyday Life

Academic Press, 2017. — 248 p. — ISBN 978-0-12-801982-5.Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Applications in Everyday Life connects key topics on the subject with actual experiences in nature and everyday life. Differing from other foundational texts with this emphasis on applications and examples, the text uniquely begins with a focus on the shapes (geometry) dictating intermolecular forces of attractions, leading to reactivity between molecules of different shapes. From this foundation, the text explores more advanced topics, such as: Ligands and Ligand Substitution Processes with an emphasis on Square-Planar Substitution and Octahedral Substitution Reactions in Inorganic Chemistry and Transition Metal Complexes, with a particular focus on Crystal-Field and Ligand-Field Theories, Electronic States and Spectra and Organometallic, Bioinorganic Compounds, including Carboranes and Metallacarboranes and their applications in Catalysis, Medicine and Pollution Control. Throughout the book, illustrative examples bring inorganic chemistry to life. For instance, biochemists and students will be interested in how coordination chemistry between the transition metals and the ligands has a direct correlation with cyanide or carbon monoxide poisoning (strong-field Cyanide or CO ligand versus weak-field Oxygen molecule).Foundations: Concepts in Chemical Bonding and Stereochemistry
Electronic Structure: Quantum Theory Revisited
Molecular Geometries
Molecular Symmetry—Part I: Point Group Assignment
Group Theory: Matrix Representation and Character Tables
Advanced Topics-1: Introduction to Ligands and Metal Complexes
Ligands and d-Block Metal Complexes
Review of Bonding Theories for d-Block Metal Complexes
Coordination Chemistry: Reaction Mechanisms and Their Influencing Factors
Advanced Topics-2: Electronic Spectra, Clusters & Isolobal Fragments
Coordination Chemistry: Electronic Spectra
Cluster Chemistry and Isolobal Fragments
Advanced Topics-3: Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis
Organometallic Chemistry
Catalysis With Organometallics
Advanced Topics-4: Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications
Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications