Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I

(Pre-requisite: CHM 301 and CHM 302)

Organometallic compounds, preparation, properties and uses of organometallic compounds of alkali metal, Mg, Zn, Cd, Hg, Al, Pb, and Bi. Alkenyls, alkynes, cyclolopentadienyl, benzenoid and non-benzenoid metal complexes. Co-ordination chemistry, theories of bonding, electronic spectra, magnetic properties, isomerism, formation and stability constants of transition metal complexes, kinetics and mechanism of complex formation.