Chemistry
4620, Inorganic
Chemistry Laboratory
Spring,
2007
Department
of Chemistry
University
of North
Texas
Laboratory Lecture:
Chemistry Building, Room 253, Tuesdays 2:00-2:50 PM
Instructor: Dr. Mohammad
A. Omary, Office: Building, Room 384, Telephone: 565-2443,
E-mail: omary@unt.edu
Laboratory Experiments:
Chemistry, Room 280, Tuesdays 3:00-6:00 PM
Laboratory Instructor:
Joyce Chen, Office: Chemistry, Room 347, Telephone: 369-5752,
E-mail:
wc0035@unt.edu
Textbook: Handouts distributed a week before
each experiment.
Course web page:
http://www.chem.unt.edu/4620/
Grading Policy:
·
40%: Average of
Individual Experiments. Each experiment will be graded as follows
(total 100
points):
o
20 points - Laboratory
procedures
o
30 points -
Notebook
o
50 points – Report
·
30%: Quizzes
·
30%: PowerPoint
presentation of the “Big Picture” project.
Weeks 1&2: Bench Synthesis: Syntheses and
Characterization of
Three Different Forms of Manganese.
Weeks 3& 4: Organometallic Synthesis Using
Schlenk Techniques:
Synthesis and Characterization of a “Piano Stool”
Compound.
Weeks 5-12: “Big Picture”
Project.
The
idea of the “Big Picture” project is to emulate
contemporary research in
inorganic chemistry. The laboratory experiments in each project have
two
parallel components; one is a “known component”
based on published literature
procedures for known materials and experiments while the other is a
“discovery
component” that has a potential to lead to a publication if
successful. Both
components have a “Big Picture”, a finite research
problem that the various
syntheses and characterization methods are combined to solve. This has
been
documented successfully in the literature for the first
“known” component and
as is hoped to be duplicated for the second
“discovery” component either during
the semester or as a follow-up thereafter. Whether the discovery
component
succeeds completely or partially, or whether it does not succeed, it
needs to
be accounted for in the final PowerPoint presentation for your
“Big Picture”
project. It is hoped that this final presentation will be the backbone
for a
journal article or conference presentation from coauthored by the
students in
charge of each project, so all the data need to be presented in the
presentation. More details about the format of the presentation as well
as what
is required in each experiment will be provided during the semester.
Disability
Accommodations: All reasonable
accommodation will be made to facilitate special needs. However, it is
the
student's responsibility to make any special needs known to the
instructor. It
is recommended that students with special needs first meet with the
staff of
the Office of Disability Accommodation (ODA), Union 324, 565-4323, then
meet
with the instructor. For more information, see the ODA website.