UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT

Department of Chemistry
Course Code: CHEM-307
Year: 2013
Instructor’s Name: Dr. Muhammad Naveed Zafar (A/P)
E-mail: naveed.zafar@uog.edu.pk

Course Title: Inorganic Chemistry-III

Semester: Spring-2012
Office (Room No): BS-012, H.H Campus
Visiting Hours: 12:00 to 12:30am
 Course Description
1. Acceptor Complexes
Mononuclear and polynuclear metal carbonyls: the eighteen electron rule as
applied to metal carbonyls; rationalization of molecular structure; evaluation of
structures based on spectroscopic evidences; chemistry of metal carbonyls and
their derivatives (nitosyls, halides and hydrides).
2. Chemistry of f-Block Elements
(i) Lanthanides: Electronic structure and position in the periodic table, Lanthanide’s
contraction, oxidation states, spectral and magnetic properties, general
characteristics, occurrence, extraction and general principles of separation,
complexes and uses.
(ii) Actinides: Electronic structure and position in the periodic table, oxidation states,
general characteristics, half life and decay law.

Pre-requisites
Students must have knowledge of coordination chemistry and its use in various
fields.
Goals
After completing this program students will be able to learn the following:
1. Chemistry of Lanthanides, their purification and properties.
2. Chemistry of actinide and their characteristics.
3. Chemistry of metal carbonyls their synthesis structure and properties.
 Main Text Books
1. Organometallics-1 by Manfred Bochmann.
2. Cotton, F. A., Wilkinson, G., Murillo, C. A. and Bochmann. M.,
“Advanced Inorganic Chemistry”, 6th Ed., Wiley-Intersceince, New
York, 1999.

Additional Books:
1. Huheey, J. E, Keiter, E. A. and Keiter, R. L., “Inorganic Chemistry:
Principles of Structure and Reactivity”, 4th Ed., Harper & Row, New
York, 2001.
2. Greenwood, N. N., and Earnshaw, A., “Chemistry of the Elements”, 2nd
Ed., Pergamon Press, New York, 1992.
3. Willium W. Porterfield. Inorganic chemistry, Unified approach, Elsevier
company, Delhi, (2005)
4. Mackay, K. M., Mackay, R. A. and Henderson, W., “Introduction to
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Modern Inorganic Chemistry”, 5 Edition, Stanley Thomas Publisher
Ltd. 1996
 Attendance Policy
A minimum of 70% attendance is required for a student to be
eligible to take the final examination.
The students with less than 70% of the attendance in a course shall
be given the grade SA (Short Attendance) in such a course and shall
not be allowed to take its End Term Exams and will have to
reappear in the course to get the required attendance to be eligible
to sit in the exam when the course is offered the next time.

Grading
Quizzes, Assignments and
The course will be evaluated on the basis of
Presentation Schedule (tentative)
the following percentage: st
1 Quiz = 5th week of semester
Mid Term 25% nd th
2 Quiz = 12 week of semester
Presentation 05%
Assignment dead line = 26 April
Oral Questing during presentation 05%
2013
Assignment 05% rd
Presentation will start in 3 week of
Quizzes (02) 10%
semester
Final term 50%
 Organometallics Course Assignment/
Presentations
G Topic
01 General Introduction to π-acceptors , 18 electron rule.
02 Metal Carbonyls; Synthesis, Structure, Metal carbonyl binding
03 Bonding modes of CO, IR spectroscopy of Metal carbonyls, Probing the electronic properties of phosphines by υ
CO.
04 CO substitution reactions, Metal Carbonyl Anions.
05 Metal Carbonyl Hydrides Complexes, The Water-Gas Shift (WGS) reaction, Metal Carbonyl Dihydrogen
Complexes,
06 Metal Carbonyl Halide Complexes, Oxidative Addition
07 Metal Carbonyl Clusters, Fisher–Tropsch reaction, Wade Rules and Isolobal relationships
08 CS, CSe, CTe, Isocyanide, Nitrosyl, Dinitrogen complexes.
09 Lanthanides: Electronic structure and position in the periodic table, Lanthanide’s contraction, oxidation states,
and uses.
10 Spectral and magnetic properties, general characteristics, occurrence,
11 Extraction and general principles of separation, complexes
12 Actinides: Electronic structure and position in the periodic table, oxidation states.
13 General characteristics of Actinides, half life and decay law.

Rules:
In every lecture, two students will be allowed for presentation.
The order or group for presentation is as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6….. So on
What are organometallic compounds?
 ORGANOMETALLICS

M-C (σ – bonds) M-C (π – bonds)

σ-Complexes π-Complexes

Complexes between metals

Metal s and Carbonyls,
and alkenes, alkynes,
alkyls, alkylidene, alkylidyne
alkenyls, arenes
Brief Review