Comprehensive Final Review Topics Fall 2007

Approximately 75% will come from the following

Review your in-class review questions for a variety of background information and problems.

Electron configurations, periodic trends for example Exercises 1.13, 15,18,20; Problems 1.10,1.11

Q 3,4 Exam 1

Symmetry: see for example Exercises 7.1- 7.7 Q 1-4 Exam 2

symmetry elements

symmetry operations

point group symmetry

Molecule shape: VSEPR, Lewis dot structures Exercise 2.3 - 2.8, Prob 2.1

Molecular orbitals:

bonding, antibonding, nonbonding orbitals Q6 Exam 1

MO diagrams

Use of MO diagrams to predict molecular properties/reactivities

see Exercises 2.16 – 20, Prob. 2.4

SALC's, meaning/usage, symmetry Exercise 7.3, Prob 7.3

Q 5,6 Exam 2

Solids

three major cubic groups

holes: types, locations, numbers

radii effects

Q 1,2,3 Exam 3

Exercises 3.2 – 3.6, Prob 3.5 – 3.8

Acid/Base chemistry:

Exercises 4.20 – 23, 26, 27 Prob 4.6, 4.11

Q 9,10 Exam 3

Coordination complexes

d-electron count

Td, Oh, sq. planar splitting diagrams and interrelationships Q9 Exam 4

effect on ligand field in Oh formation constants

LFSE

factors affecting the lability of metal ions

backbonding involving pi acids

magnetism Q 8 Exam 4

Exercises 19.4 – 19.9

Redox Chemistry

balancing half reactions

use of Latimer and Frost diagrams to summarize redox chemistry

Inter-relationship between K, DG, E

Q 1,2,3 Exam 4 Exercises 5.4 – 5.6, 5.8

Approximately 25% will come from the following

Organometallic complexes

EAN electron counting

CO ligands

flexible Cp hapticity

reductive elimination/oxidative addition, beta-hydrogen elimination, hydride and alkyl migration

hydrogenation