The text we are using is Inorganic Chemistry 3rd ed., by Catherine Housecroft and Alan Sharpe.  A student website with rotatable chemical structures and some multiple choice problems is here.  Note that the rotatable structures require a plug-in called Chime.  Unfortunately, this plug-in ONLY works with Internet Explorer, so if you are using FireFox, Opera, Safari, etc., you will have to install and use IE for this feature.

The syllabus for CHM 511 Lecture is here.

Homework sets

• Chapter 1 HW due Wednesday Sept 8 @ 8:00 am.  The answer key is posted outside my office for your perusal.
• Chapter 2 HW due Friday Sept 17 @ 8:00 am
• Chapter 3 HW due Friday Sept 24 @ 8:00 am--this assignment cannot be turned in late as the answer key will be given out immediately on Friday.
  • See this link to answer question 7 of the homework.
  • See this link of a NOVA ScienceNow video about the Island of Stability.
• Homework set for nomenclature due Wednesday Oct 6 @ 8:00 am.
• Chapter 4 HW due Wednesday Oct 13 @ 8:00 am.
• Chapter 5 HW due Friday Oct 22 @ 8:00 am.
• Chapter 6 HW due Friday Nov 12 @ 8:00 am.  Also, a student requested the ionic lattices in electronic form--click here for the ones covered in class.

• Chapter 7 HW due Friday Nov 19 @ 8:00 am.
  Also, here's the link to problem 9 of the homework set.  Click here for a talk by the indefatigable James Randi on the topic of homeopathy.

• Chapter 21 HW (optional)--but due no later than Friday Dec 3rd @ 8 am.

• FINAL GRADE ESTIMATOR--will open as an Excel worksheet.

Interesting (or at least relevant) web links

Click on the following link to see a better (more complex) representation of orbitals.  The Orbitron.

A website to help with assigning point groups and seeing symmetry operations.  Must have Java and Javascript capabilities.

This link has many minerals with crystal lattice structures (you must download a special program from the website, but it can really help you see the octahedral or tetrahedral lattice of anions).  See "Crystal Structures"  WARNING:  may be a time sink!!  Webmineral

IUPAC is the authority on naming in chemistry.  Here is an online dictionary of chemical terminology.

More practice with rotating 3D models of molecules.  VSEPR shapes.

Check to see upcoming local ACS meetings.  Western Carolinas Section of the American Chemical Society

Chemistry headlines from "Chemical and Engineering News"

The Journal (Inorganic Chemistry published by ACS)

    Other relevant journals from ACS:  JACS

                                                         Chemistry of Materials

                                                         Organometallics