- Docente: Fabrizia Grepioni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: CHIM/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (cod. 8006)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will possess adequate knowledge of inorganic systems, both as molecules and as extended solids, with focus on structure-properties relationship. The student will have basic knowledge of elements and their inorganic compounds.
Course contents
Introduction - Metallic and molecular solids. Close packing. Ionic solids: types and stability. Lattice enthalpies. Born-Haber cycle. Redox potentials - The Nernst equation - Frost, Latimer and Pourbaix diagrams - Ellingham diagrams - corrosion in metals - Periodic properties of the elements. Elements and compounds: groups 1-2 and 13-18. The d-block elements. Properties and applications of inorganic compounds and solids as typical and advanced materials.
Readings/Bibliography
G. Rayner-Canham, T. Overton "Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry", 6th (2014) edition, W. H. FREEMAN AND COMPANY, NEW YORK
Teaching methods
Lectures (blackboard, powerpoint, videoclips, graphical programs) and exercises
Assessment methods
Written and oral examination.
Teaching tools
Graphical programs, crystallographic data bases, Powerpoint, web
sites and movies.
Office hours
See the website of Fabrizia Grepioni