IIT madras MSC Chemistry syllabus

hii sir I wants to get the syllabus of the Transition Metal Chemistry subject of the MSC Chemistry of the IIT Madras ?

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The Indian Institute of Technology Madras is an autonomous public engineering and research institution located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.

the syllabus of the Transition Metal and Organometallic Chemistry subject of the MSc Chenistry of the IIT Madras is given below :


CY 5011 - Transition Metal and Organometallic Chemistry

Transition Metal Chemistry

Structure, bonding and properties of transition metal ligand complexes – ligand, coordination, geometry, coordination number, isomerism (recapitulation); HSAB concept, thermodynamic stability, successive and overall stability constants, Irving-William series, chelate and macrocyclic effect.

Theories of bonding - VBT, CFT and their limitations; d-orbital splitting in octahedral, JT-distorted octahedral, square planar, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, and tetrahedral complexes; CFSE for d1 to d10 systems, pairing energy, low-spin and high-spin complexes and magnetic properties; LFT, and molecular orbital (MO) theory of selected octahedral and tetrahedral complexes.

Electronic Spectra - UV-Vis, charge transfer, colors, intensities and origin of spectra, interpretation, term symbols and splitting of terms in free atoms, selection rules for electronic transitions, Orgel and Tanabe-Sugano diagram, calculation of Dq, B, C, Nephelauxetic ratio.

Reaction mechanisms - substitution reactions in octahedral and square planar complexes, trans effect and its influence, water exchange, anation and base hydrolysis, stereochemistry, inner and outer sphere electron transfer mechanism.

Lanthanides and Actinides - contraction, coordination, optical spectra and magnetic properties.


Organometallic Chemistry

Valence electron count (16/18 electron rules); structure and bonding in mono and polynuclear metal carbonyls; substituted metal carbonyls and related compounds; synthesis and reactivity of metal carbonyls; vibrational spectra of metal carbonyls; dinitrogen and dioxygen as ligands in organometallic compounds.

Types of M-C bonds; synthesis and reactivity of metal alkyls, carbenes, alkenes, alkynes, and arene complexes; metallocenes and bent metallocenes; isolobal analogy.

Reactions of organometallic complexes: Substitution, oxidative addition, reductive elimination, insertion and deinsertion; Catalysis - Hydrogenation, Hydroformylation, Monsanto process, Wacker process, alkene polymerization.


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