flask Inorganic Chemistry
Inorganic chemistry covers everything that isn't carbon-focused: transition metals with their colors and magnetism, coordination complexes, and the descriptive chemistry of the main-group elements that make up minerals and materials.
What you will learn
- Describe coordination compounds
- Explain transition-metal properties
- Use crystal-field theory basics
- Name complex ions
- Relate structure to color and magnetism
Introductory College concepts
Isomerism in coordination complexes: structural and stereo
Discover how complexes with the same formula can differ: ionization, linkage, and hydrate isomers, plus cis-trans, fac-mer, and optical isomers.
Coordination compounds: structure, bonding, and naming
Learn what coordination compounds are, how ligands bind to a metal center, how coordination numbers work, and how to name complexes step by step.
Crystal field theory: splitting, spin states, and color
See how ligands split a metal's d orbitals into energy levels, why complexes are colored, and how high-spin and low-spin states arise.
Ligands: types, denticity, and the chelate effect
Meet the molecules and ions that bind to metals: monodentate, bidentate, and polydentate ligands, naming, ambidentate ligands, and the chelate effect.
Transition metals: the d-block elements and their chemistry
Explore the d-block: variable oxidation states, colored ions, magnetism, catalysis, and why transition metals form so many complexes.