Educational guide 2023_24 Facultade de Química

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Types of ligands.	Denticity of the ligands Functionality of the ligands
The coordination polyhedron	Number of coordination Geometry of coordination *Isomería. Nomenclature and indexes of coordination
The bond in coordination compounds(I)	Introduction to crystal field theory Octahedral complexes of weak field and strong field. Tetrahedral and Square-plane complexes
Thermodinamic properties of the coordination compounds	Stability constants and factors that affect them Chelate, macrocycle and criptate effects Irvin-Williams series Approximation of Pearson
The bond in coordination compounds(II)	Molecular orbital theory in octahedral complexes Metal-Ligand Interaction
Spectroscopic and magnetic properties of complex.	Energetic states. Rules of selection. General characteristics of the electronic spectra. Magnetic behaviour
Reaction mechanism in coordination compounds.	Substitution reactions in square-plane and octahedral complexes. Electronic transfer processes.
Practices of laboratory	Synthesis of transition metal coordination compounds. Characterization by means of different spectrocopic techniques Study of properties and catalysis applications