Chemistry - A Molecular Science

Chapter 14 Inorganic Chemistry

After studying the material presented in this chapter, you should be able to: 1. determine the coordination number of a metal (Section 14.1); 2. give an example of a ligand behaving as a Lewis base (Section 14.1); 3. distinguish between chelating and bridging ligands (Section 14.1); 4. predict the relative energies of d orbitals in octahedral complexes (Section 14.2); 5. distinguish between the properties of complexes of weak- and strong-field ligands

(Section 14.2);

6. explain the origin of the color of many transition metal complexes and show how the color

varies with the field strength of the ligand (Section 14.2);

7. explain the difference between high-spin and low-spin complexes and show how the spin

depends upon

Δ (Section 14.2);

8. identify and differentiate

cis

and

trans

isomers and

fac

and

mer

isomers (Section 14.3);

9. explain the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration (Section 14.4); 10. identify the heme portion in hemoglobin and explain its function (Section 14.4); 11. explain the role of cisplatin in the treatment of cancer (Section 14.4); 12. distinguish between homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis and give an example of

each (Section 14.5);

13. explain how partial oxidation of a filled band can result in conductivity (Section 14.6); and 14. describe the prerequisites for a molecular magnet (Section 14.6).
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