Inorganic Review Topics
Last Update July 27, 2006
Links are to CHEM 120/121 outcome statements, and
represent the minimal level of knowledge needed for this course in these areas.
Please refer to your physical chemistry, organic and quantitative analysis notes
and texts for more information.
- •Nuclear Properties
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- »isotopes
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- »subatomic particles
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- »atomic weight and how to calculate it
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- »nuclear magnetic moment
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- •Periodic Table
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- >nomenclature
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- >groupings of elements
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- >metals vs. non-metals
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- >allotropes
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- •Periodic Trends
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- >electronegativity
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- >electron affinity and ionization energies
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- >reasons for these trends
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- •Thermodynamics
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- >ΔH,
ΔS, ΔG, what they are and how
they are connected under different conditions
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- •Equilibrium
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- >proper thermodynamic form of K and the
approximations needed to get to a useful form
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- > manipulations of equilibrium expressions,
calculations
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- •Electrochemistry
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- >Nernst equation
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- >relationship of ΔG to E0
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- •Kinetics and Mechanism
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- >rate laws and how to determine them
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- >integrated rate laws
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- >how to write mechanisms
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- >Arrhenius equation
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- •Nomenclature
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- >naming of
simple ionic and molecular compounds
and
coordination compounds
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- •Quantum Mechanics
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- >wavefunctions and operators
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- >Schrödinger equation and its solutions for hydrogen
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- >angular momentum quantization
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- >basic idea of interaction of light with matter
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- •Bonding
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- >Lewis dot structures
and VSEPR (using to predict molecular properties)
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- >Valence
Bond Theory
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- >Molecular
Orbital Theory
- >Ionic
bonding and solid
state structure
- >Intermolecular
interactions and their effects
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- •Group Theory
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- >operations
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- >elements
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- >character tables
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