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| Inorganic chemistry is concerned with the properties and reactivity of all chemical elements. Advanced interests focus on understanding the role of metals in biology and the environment, the design and properties of materials for energy and information technology, fundamental studies on the reactivity of main group and transition elements, and nanotechnology. Synthetic efforts are directed at hydrogen storage materials and thermoelectrics, catalysts for solar hydrogen generation, fullerenes and metal porphyrins, metal clusters and compounds with element-element bonds, as well as nanowires and nanoparticles.
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Fundamentals Many of the chemistry principles learned in the study of Organic Chemistry can be applied to Inorganic chemistry. However, due to the complex and varied nature of using the full range of elements in the Periodic Table, many very interesting feature can be observed in non-organic, aka inorganic, chemistry. |
Crystal Field Theory describes how electrons fill out energy levels, magnetic properties, and color, however it does not describe bonding. Although sharing similarities to Molecular Orbital Theory, Crystal Field Theory is based primarily on symmetry of ligands around a central metal/ion and how this anisotropic ligand field affects the metal's atomic orbitals. The energies of which may be affected.
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Main Group Elements Tiptoeing through the periodic table with your shoes off. | Coordination Complexes
Sometimes an ion is solution is more than an isolated ion in solution, but can be "dressed" with solvent atoms to result in a complex with a widely different chemistry than expected for individual atoms or ions in solution.
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d-block Transition Metal Elements Tiptoeing through the periodic table with your shoes off. These are the elements in Groups 3-12. | Symmetry & Group Theory Many calculations can be simplified appreciably with the observation that specific symmetries exist. Group theory is the study and application of these symmetries. |
f-block Transition Metal Elements Tiptoeing through the periodic table with your shoes off. If you think the d-block transition metals were fun, just wait until you get to touch the Lanthinides and Actinides. Remember, radioactivity is your friend. | |
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