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Advanced Inorganic Chemictry

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 651-0977/01
Abbreviation PACH
Course title Advanced Inorganic Chemictry
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Chemistry and Physico-Chemical Processes
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vlastimil Matějka, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. General inorganic chemistry. Trends in properties of s, p, d, f elements and their compounds.
2. Binding and stereochemistry of covalent compounds. Bonds and structure of solid metallic and ionic substances.
3. Acids, bases and ions in aqueous solutions. Oxidation, reduction and thermal properties of inorganic compounds.
4. Thermodynamic stability of oxidation states - Frost diagrams.
5. Reactions in non-aqueous media - ionic, oxide and metal melts.
6. Acid-base and oxidation-reduction reactions in molten salts and oxide melts. Acidity, alkalinity and oxidation capacity of oxide melts.
7. Synthesis of inorganic compounds in molten salts.
8. Preparation and characterization of inorganic nanomaterials.
9. Chemistry of metallic f-elements. Inorganic compounds of 4f-elements (lanthanides) and selected 5f-elements (Th, Pa, U, Pu), their similarity to elements of 4th, 5th and 6th groups.
10. The use of lanthanides in metallurgy with regard to the stability of their oxides and sulfides.

Literature

HOUSECROFT C.E., SHARPE A.G. Inorganic chemistry. 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. ISBN 978-0-13-175553-6.

Advised literature

SHARPE A.G. Inorganic chemistry. 3rd ed. Burnt Mill: Longman, 1992. ISBN 0-582-05913-5.
JOLLY W.L. Modern inorganic chemistry. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991. ISBN 0-07-032768-8.
James E. HOUSE J.E., HOUSE K.A. Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry, Elsevier Inc. All., 2016, ISBN 978-0-12-804697-5