The course aims to deepen some aspects of inorganic chemistry, highlighting some specific topics, such as coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, clusters chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry. The knowledge acquired in the lectures is applied to the laboratory activity, which concerns the synthesis and characterization of selected compounds belonging to the above mentioned classes.
The course includes both lectures and practical activity, carried out in the laboratory and followed by the preparation of written individual reports. Attendance is mandatory both in the laboratory sessions and in the corresponding lessons
Chemistry of acids and bases (extension of the acid-base concept). Advanced coordination chemistry: electronic spectra, reactions, mechanisms. Metallorganic chemistry: carbonyl, di-nitrogen, dioxygen, metal-hydride complexes, metal-olefin complexes, allyl derivatives, metallocenes, alkyl, metal carbene and metal carbyne complexes. Reactions of organometallic complexes, catalysis by organometallic compounds. Clusters. Boranes, heteroboranes, metalloboranes. Carbonyl clusters. High valence clusters. Multiple metal-metal bonds. Symmetry and group theory (symmetry elements and operations, point groups and molecular symmetry, applications of point group symmetry). Selected aspects of bioinorganic chemistry: iron biochemistry, biochemistry of other metals such as Zn, Cu, Co, Mo.
Laboratory experiences:
Preparation of cis and trans [Mo(CO)4(PPh3)2] coordination compounds;
Preparation of Fe (η5-C5H5)2. Purification and characterization. Ferrocene acetylation
Preparation and thermochromic luminescence of copper (I) -pyridine-iodide clusters
Preparation and characterization of the carbonyl cluster Fe3(CO)12
Preparation of a model compound of vitamin B12 and its methylation
Ricevimento: By appointment.
Ricevimento: Everyday, by appointment.
SERENA DE NEGRI (President)
PAVLO SOLOKHA
ADRIANA SACCONE (President Substitute)
DIEGO COLOMBARA (Substitute)
SIMONA DELSANTE (Substitute)
Starting from October, 19th, 2020, according to the timetable shown on http://www.chimica.unige.it/didattica/Home_SC or https://corsi.unige.it/9018 )
The exam is oral, it is always conducted by two teachers and lasts approximately 45 minutes
With the exam description mentioned above the Commission can verify with high accuracy the achievement of learning outcomes of teaching. When goals are not achieved, the student is asked to deepen the study and to ask further explanations to teachers.
