CH 212	Inorganic Chemistry	3-0-0-6
Syllabus: Acids and bases: classification, Lewis acid and base concept, hard acid, hard base classification, Pearson's HSAB concept and application; Oxidation and reduction: redox reactions, redox potential, electrochemical series, use of electrochemical series; Metallic chains, sheets and clusters; Metal silicates, zeolites and polyoxo-metallates; Metals and alloys, ceramic materials, intermetallic compounds and zintl phases; Chemistry of phosphorus, phosphorus oxides and phosphorus hydrides; Chemistry of oxyacids and oxyanion of nitrogen and phosphorus; Differences between the chemistry of nitrogen and phosphorus; Chemistry of the halogens: pseudo-halogen, inter-halogen; Oxides and oxyacids; Polyhalides; Chemistry of the rare gases: Chemistry of xenon, structure and bonding of xenon compounds; Non-aqueous solvents: types of solvents, general characteristics, reactions in non-aqueous solvents with reference to liquid NH3 and liquid SO2. Text Books: 1. N. N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw, Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd Ed., London: Butterworth Heinmann ,1997. 2. D. J. Shriver, P. W. Atkins and C. H. Langford, Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd Ed., Oxford ,1994. References: 1. F. A. Cotton and G. W. Wilkinson, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 5th Ed., John-Wiley & Sons, 1988. 2. J. E. Huheey, E. A. Keiter and R. L. Keiter, Inorganic Chemistry: Principles of Structure and Reactivity, Dorling Kindersley, 2006. 3. P. K. Dutt, Concepts of Chemistry, Levant Book, 2004.