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MIT 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science - Fall 2005

Lecture 27: Transition Metals

author: Catherine L. Drennan, Department of Chemistry, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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I. Formation of Coordination Complexes

A. Donor atoms: ligands

B. Acceptor atoms

C. Coordination complexes

D. Coordination number

E. Coordination complex notation

II. Structures of Coordination Complexes

A. Chelate effect

1. Vitamin B12

2. Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA)

B. Geometric isomers

C. Optical isomers (enantiomers)

III. d-Electron Counting in Coordination Complexes

IV. d Orbitals

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Comment1 Musse, December 9, 2009 at 5:43 a.m.:

This is a wonderful lecture.She explained well much better than my professor. by the way which schiool is this?

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