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THE NICHOLS LAB
TEACHING
CHEM 208
Coordination Chemistry
Introduction to nomenclature and bonding of coordination complexes; symmetry and point groups; frontier molecular orbital theory; crystal field theory; properties and applications of coordination complexes.
Fundamentals of Reactivity in Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM 218
Common ligands and their properties; IR and NMR spectroscopy applied to inorganic and organometallic complexes; thermodynamics, kinetics, rate laws, and methods for analyzing reaction mechanisms; descriptive inorganic chemistry and common reactions of octahedral and square planar complexes; electron transfer; reactivity of metal oxos/hydroxos/hydrides; introduction to organometallic reaction mechanisms; main group chemistry
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