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.

Notes you need to download and print double sided (The printer in Smith computer lab can do this! Save paper, save the environment, save your IT account money!)

The paper assignment guidelines            The topics claimed so far (remember, you can choose your own topic, these are just suggestions)

Final Exam topics (will be given in class on Monday, too)

Note:  a few people have asked for more practice on nomenclature problems, Googling something like "coordination compound nomenclature" gave me these three responses as the first hits. I didn't review each one in toto, but they looked generally correct (though with some minor typos--for instance, there is no space between a word the the Stock number (iron(II), not iron (II), one website wrote "choloro" instead of "chloro", but it was pretty obvious what they intended).

• http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~edudev/LabTutorials/naming_coord_comp.html

• http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Inorganic_Chemistry/Coordination_Chemistry/Basics_of_Coordination_Chemistry/Nomenclature_of_Coordination_Complexes

• http://www.lasalle.edu/~prushan/IC-articles/Nomenclature%20of%20Coordination%20Complexes.pdf

• Chapter 2 notes
• Chapter 3 notes
• Notes on nomenclature of inorganic complexes
• Chapter 4 notes.
• Chapter 5 notes.
• Chapter 6 notes
• Chapter 7 notes
• Chapter 21 notes
• Chapter 24-part 1

Interesting (or at least relevant) web links

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

This is another website with orbital pictures.  Includes MANY more orbitals (s, p,d ,f,g,h,i ,j, k, and l orbitals!  Not zoomable.)

A website to help with MO theory--a student (ZL) found this helpful in Fall 2010.

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.  Requires Chime plug-in, which is not compatible with Firefox browser

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