Synopses & Reviews
Presents the structural concepts of inorganic chemistry through state-of-the-art, hands-on experiments. Presents laboratory techniques that are not commonly addressed: measurements of high temperatures; vacuum systems; ampulation of products; trap-to-trap distillation; slush baths; handling of compressed gases; and the cleanup of gas streams. It also presents solid state reactions, which make possible synthesis of high temperature superconductors; semiconductors; and electronic metal. An important reference on inorganic chemistry for professional chemical engineers.
Table of Contents
I. BACKGROUND MATERIAL. Safety in the Chemical Laboratory. Laboratory Notebooks.
Laboratory Glass and Laboratory Glassblowing.
Heating and Cooling.
Handling Air and Moisture Sensitive Compounds.
Chromatography.
Thermal Analysis.
Infrared Spectroscopy.
Magnetic Susceptibility.
Mass Spectrometry.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
X-Ray Diffraction.
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance.
Computational Chemistry.
Structural Inorganic Chemistry.
II. LABORATORY EXERCISES. Crystal Growth in Gels.
Structural Inorganic Chemistry via Models - Session I.
Structural Inorganic Chemistry via Models - Session II.
Sodium Peroxoborate.
Measurement of High Temperatures.
Preparation of Phosphors.
Copper(II) Oxide.
Structural Inorganic Chemistry via Models - Session III.
Brucite and Magnesia.
Strontium Zincate(II).
Cadmium(II) Iodide.
Manganese(IV) Oxide.
Pillared Clays.
Potassium Nitrilosulfonate.
Tin(IV) Chloride.
Surface Conductive Glass.
Copper(I) Chloride.
Mercury(II) Tetrathiocyanatocobaltate.
Synthesis of a Superconductor.
12-Tungstophosphoric Acid.
Copper Compounds.
Potassium Trifluoronickelate(II).
Potassium Trifluoromagnesate.
Potassium Iodate and Clock Reaction.
Ethylenediamine Complexes of Cobalt and Nickel.
Ethylenediamine Complexes of Chromium.
Hexaamine Cobalt(III) Chloride.
Chloropentaamminecobalt(III) Chloride/Nitropentaamminecobalt(III) Chloride.
Ferrocene.
Phase Diagram of an Alloy.
Metal Complex Used for DNA Cleavage.
Synthesis of Heterogenous Catalyst Supports.
Preparation of a Zeolite, B/A1 ZSM-11.
Molecular Modeling Computational Laboratory.
III. CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES. Conductivity of Ionic Solutions.
Measurements of Magnetic Susceptibility.
Absorption Spectra of Transition Metal Complexes.
X-Ray Powder Diffraction of Pillared Clays.
Luminescence Spectroscopy.
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.
Calibration of Vacuum Line Components.
Characterization of Gaseous Unknown.