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Educational and
professional goals:
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Learning about current trends in inorganic chemistry. Broadening of knowledge about metals and their properties including the ability to form coordination compounds. Introduction to inorganic materials chemistry: self-assembled and organized multi-layer structures; inorganic polymers and hybrid organic-inorganic materials of defined functionality; catalysis.
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Course description:
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Metals, pseudometals and semiconductors. Definitions and properties. Mixed-valent conductors. Metal nanoparticles, their preparation and characterization. Intermetallic compounds and alloys. General characterization of main group metals, transition metals, lantanides and actinides. Basic physicochemical properties of metals and their compounds. Coordination chemistry. Magnetic and spectrochemical properties of metals. More detailed descriptive chemistry of selected metals. Nonstoichiometric compounds. Polynuclear complexes and coordination polymers. Polyoxometallates and cyanometallates. Intercalation. Clays and zeolites. Nanostructured inorganic materials. Self-assembly in inorganic chemistry. Organized multilayered systems. Hybrid organic-inorganic materials. Inorganic systems in catalysis: examples of reactions, mechanisms of activation and reactivity. Modern methods of characterization of inorganic compounds.
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