Chem 110 Lecture Notes, Fall 2003
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- Lecture 1_August 25: Introduction;
Review of Acid-Base Chemistry
- Lecture 2_August 27: pH; Acid-Base
Titration; Hydrolysis of Weak Salts.
- Lecture 3_August 29: Common
Ions, Buffers, and Buffer Preparation.
- Lecture 4_September 3: Aqueous
Ion Solubility, Ksp, Finding and Using Ksp
in solubility Problems; pH Effects.
- Lecture 5_September 5: pH Effects
of Ionic Solubility; Complex Ionic Equilibrium; Introduction
to Thermodynamics.
- Lecture 6_September 8: Thermodynamics,
Spontaneity, and Entropy.
- Lecture 7_September 10: Entropy
and Spontaneity; Free Energy; Free Energy and Chemical Processes.
- Lecture 8_September 12: Free
Energy and Chemical Reactions; More on Entropy.
- Lecture 9_September 15: Entropy
and Molecular Complexity; Free Energy Calculations.
- Lecture 10_September 17: Free
Energy Calculations cont.; Pressure Dependence of Free Energy;
Free Energy and Equilibria.
- Lecture 11_September 19: Free
Energy and Equilibria, cont.; Keq and Temperature;
Free Energy and Work.
- Lecture 12_September 22: Introduction
to Electrochemistry; Introduction to Galvanic Cells.
- Lecture 13_September 24: Galvanic
Cells; Electrodes and Standard Reduction Potentials; Cell Diagrams;
Cell Potential and Free Energy.
- Lecture 14_September 26: Calculating
Free Energy from Cell potentials; Concentration Cells; Potentiometry;
Reference Electrodes; The Glass Electrode.
- Lecture 15_September 29: Electrochemistry
cont. - Batteries; Electrolysis and Electrolytic Cells. (Guest
Lecture)
- Lecture 16_October 1: Electrochemical
Corrosion; Review of Classical Bonding. (Guest Lecture)
- Lecture 17_October 6: Bonding
Review - Lewis Structures, Resonance, and Expanded Valence Shells.
- Lecture 18_October 8: VSEPR
Theory and Molecular Geometry; Polarity and Polar Molecules.
- October 13: Exam I review - No Lecture Notes.
- Lecture 19_October 15: Introduction
to Quantum Models of Bonding.
- Lecture 20_October 17: Hybrid
Atomic Orbitals.
- Lecture 21_October 20: Molecular
Orbital Theory.
- Lecture 22_October 22: The Chemistry
of the Elements - Review of the Periodic Table and Chemical Periodicity.
- Lecture 23_October 24: Chemical
Demos - Period 3; Group 1 and 17.
- Lecture 24_October 27: The Chemistry
of the Representative Elements - Hydrogen; the Alkali Metals;
Introduction to the Alkaline Earth Metals.
- Lecture 25_October 29: The Chemistry
of the Representative Elements - the Alkaline Earth Metals.
- Lecture 26_October 31: The Chemistry
of the Representative Elements - Group III.
- Lecture 27_November 3: The Chemistry
of the Representative Elements - Group IV overview; Carbon, Silicon.
- Lecture 28_November 5: The Chemistry
of the Representative Elements - Group IV, cont.; Group V overview.
- Lecture 29_November 7: The Chemistry
of the Representative Elements - Group V, cont.
- Lecture 30_November 10: The
Chemistry of the Representative Elements - Group V, cont.; Group
VI.
- Lecture 31_November 12: The
Chemistry of the Representative Elements - Sulfur; Group VII.
- Lecture 32_November 17: The
Chemistry of the Representative Elements - Hydrogen Halides;
Introduction to the Transition Metals.
- Lecture 33_November 19: The
Chemistry of the Transition Metals; Coordination Compounds.
- Lecture 34_November 21: The
Chemistry of the Transition Metals; Naming Complex Ions, cont.;
Stereoisomerism.
- Lecture 35_December1: Stereoisomerism,
cont. Polydentate Ligands; Transition Metal Ion Colors; Hybrid
Orbital Theory and Transition Metal Ions.
- Lecture 36 December 3: Hybrid
Orbital Theory and Transition Metal Ions - Four Ligand Examples.
Crystal Field Theory - Paramagnetism and Colors.
- Lecture 37 December 5: Molecular
Orbital Theory for Transition Metal Complex Ions; Survey of Fourth
Period Transition Metals: Sc-Ti.
- Lecture 38 December 8: Survey
of Fourth Period Transition Metals: V-Zn; Other Transition Metals:
Ag & Au, Hg, Pt, Ir etc. W, Cd.
- Lecture 39 December 10: Nuclear
Chemistry - Review (Atoms and Isotopes); Radioactive Decay.
- Lecture 40 December 12: Nuclear
Chemistry - Radioactive Decay Series; Nuclear Decay Rates and
Dating.
© R A Paselk
Last modified 12 December 2003
