Undergraduate Courses
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| Feel free to use the learning resource below and the notes as you wish. Please contact me if you find any mistakes or have suggestions for improvements. |
| A resource to
familiarise students with common structure types. Amongst other useful functions, realtime
structure reorientation, lattice planes defined by Miller indices highlighted, and
generation of powder patterns.
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Undergraduate Courses |
| 2nd year
undergraduate course. Electroncounting; s-, p-accepting, p-donor ligands; MO's of octahedral complexes; Metal-ligand multiple bonds;
bimetallic bonding.
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| 3rd year
undergraduate course. Part I Electron transfer, inner and outer sphere; Marcus theory:
Part II Catalysis, isomerisation, hydrogenation, carbonylation and borylation.
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| 3rd year
undergraduate course. Synthesis of materials, structural descriptions, magnetic
properties,dielectric properties, superconductivity.
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| Part of 2nd year
option module Polymeric Materials. Some roles of inorganic elements in 'polymer'
chemistry. Homogeneous alkene Ziegler-Natta polymerisation, ring-opening metathesis
polymerisation, polysiloxanes, polysilanes, polyphosphazenes, organometallic magnets and
metal-organic network/framework (coordination polymers).
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| Part of 2nd year option module Natural Environment. The big bang, stars, nucleosynthesis, earth formation/evolution, silicates, gems. |