Writing prompts -
| symmetry | bonding | coordination chem I
First entry
(a) How did you react to learning about symmetry classification, either in class or from chapter 7?
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(b) Which of the symmetry operations is easiest for you to see or find in an object?
Discuss why and what makes the other operations more difficult to visualize by comparison.or
any other topic related to chapter 7 that you wish to contemplate in writing.
Bonding. - DUE week of Feb. 25
Has your understanding of bonding and how to describe bonding in various molecules changed as a result of what was covered in class? If so how? If not, what was solidified?
Coordination Chemistry I. - due Friday, Apr. 4 by 5PM
(a) What aspect of coordination complexes most surprised and/or most pleased you ?
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(b) What are your ideas about why transition metal chemistry is so different from organic chemistry?
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(c) Now that you know more (!), discuss your thoughts about electronic spectroscopy, perhaps how it relates to color and transition metal chemistry.
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(d) any other topic related to transition metal chemistry that you wish to contemplate in writing.
Coordination Chemistry Reactions.
(a) What patterns do you find in the reactions of transition metal complexes? What ways do you use to organize reaction types and mechanisms of transition metal complexes?
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(b) Discuss whether or not it might be useful to teach the principles of reaction mechanisms of organic chemistry together with and juxtaposed to those of transition metal chemistry.
(a) Discuss how "Symmetry is the answer" in inorganic chemistry.
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(b) Discuss how CHEM 231 has altered your ways of thinking about chemistry.
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(c) Discuss your experience of the course, starting with the webbed picture of Inorganic Chemistry shown in the first day of class:
