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Concepts in Transition Metal Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781849730600 Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Year of publishing: 2009 Format: Paperback
No of Pages: 140
This undergraduate teaching text and accompanying Periodic Table DVD, provides an introduction to the transition metals. The first two chapters introduce the reader to the chemistry of the first-row transition...Read more
This undergraduate teaching text and accompanying Periodic Table DVD, provides an introduction to the transition metals. The first two chapters introduce the reader to the chemistry of the first-row transition elements in different oxidation states, in particular +2 and +3 and their relative stability, largely using interactive activities and video on the DVD. This is followed by a study of coordination chemistry and the stability of complexes. Later chapters look at theories of metal-ligand bonding, in particular the way models can be used to rationalise many of the properties of transition metals and their compounds, such as colour, magnetism and stereochemistry. Starting with the simple, yet powerful crystal field approach, the book finishes with a largely pictorial treatment of molecular orbital theory. The text also includes interactive activities on the accompanying Periodic Table DVD, in-text questions with answers, full colour diagrams and revision exercises on an associated website www.rsc.org/metalsandlife
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Review:Transition MetalsConcepts in Transition Metal ChemistryEleanor Crabb, E.A. Moore, Lesley Smart (Eds)RSC Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2009, 226pp (SB) ISBN 9781849730600 Reviewed by Peter SadlerThe...Read more
Transition MetalsConcepts in Transition Metal ChemistryEleanor Crabb, E.A. Moore, Lesley Smart (Eds)RSC Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2009, 226pp (SB) ISBN 9781849730600 Reviewed by Peter SadlerThe material in this book will be very useful for chemistry undergraduates, especially in the first 2 years of their courses. It concentrates on the first transition series, and deals mostly with +2 and +3 oxidation states, although higher and lower oxidation states are briefly mentioned. A wide range of different types of ligands is described. There is an emphasis on the thermodynamic stability of complexes including redox potentials and the concepts of hard and soft acids and bases. It is a pity that kinetics and reaction mechanisms are not dealt with.Both crystal field and molecular orbital pictures of the transition metal complexes are presented and used to discuss their electronic absorption spectra and magnetic properties. All the absorption spectra have wavenumber scales, w
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