Chem 3360 Laboratory Exercises

The exercises are designed to give you some exposure to experimental aspects of inorganic chemistry.

Each laboratory has a pre-laboratory assignment that must be completed in advance to gain admittance to the experiment. Failure to complete this assignment in advance will result in a zero for that experiment.

Each laboratory has a set of attached questions related to the experiments of that week. These will be answered and handed in for credit. Your written summary answers must refer to your experimental observations for support.

These exercises will replace four days of lecture. During the week of a scheduled laboratory exercise we will meet class in Laney 305. Both lectures during that week will be replaced with laboratory activities.

· Ligand Fields and Electronic Spectra of Transition Metal Complexes (Sep 2006)

· Preparing and testing atmospheric pollutant gases (Nov 2006)

· 2NO₂(g) <==> N₂O₄(g) Equilibrium (future years)

· H₃PO₄ pK_a’s, buffers and ³¹P NMR (future years)

· Art and Chemistry: Ceramics, Metal Etching (future years)

· suggest some others