Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

Spring 2024

Course Description

The study of inorganic substances is important for understanding a variety of other sciences and for an appreciation of the chemistry that permeates our everyday lives. Inorganic chemistry allows us to understand why lead in the water in Flint, Michigan was dangerous to children, how inorganic vanadium compounds can be harnessed to store energy from wind power, how platinum compounds can work as anticancer drugs, how metal-organic frameworks can serve to store H2 or CO2 , how the lithium used in our electronics batteries is isolated from its ore and altered chemically to power the products we use every day. Our goal is to learn together about the properties and reactions of inorganic substances well enough to be able to apply them to understand the many fascinating applications of inorganic chemistry both in chemistry and in fields such as geology, art, medicine, biology, and environmental science.

Student Outcomes

Students will be able to:

  • communicate the relationship between macroscopic matter and the microscopic and symbolic representations of atoms, ions, and compounds.
  • describe the structure and bonding of covalent, ionic, and metallic substances and use this knowledge to predict properties of inorganic substances and understand how they differ from one another.
  • understand the ways in which inorganic compounds participate in chemical reactions and identify and write these fundamental reactions.
  • appreciate and apply inorganic chemistry concepts for understanding the world around us and see these real- world problems from the perspective of a chemist.
  • understand chemical procedures and use them to successfully complete laboratory activities that address the properties and reactivity of inorganic compounds.

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