RDCH 702: Radiochemistry
Lecture 4: Electron Orbitals and Energetics

This lecture covers fundamentals of electron orbitals and energetics in chemical bonding.  Correlations between bonding and structure are provided.  Ligand field theory is reviewed.  Charge transfer in metal-ligand interaction is discussed.  Bonding based on molecular orbital theory is given.  The utility of spectroscopy in evaluating electron interactions in bonding is presented. The lecture supplies a fundamental understanding of the chemical interactions germane to radionuclide complexes. The total lecture time is around 34 minutes.  The PDF quiz 4 is assigned 1 October 2018 and due 6 October 2018.

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  1. Point group and symmetry
  2. Coordination number
  3. Molecular orbital and chemical bonding theory
  4. Hard-soft Lewis Acids
  5. Chelation and stability
  6. Effective atomic number
  7. Ligand field theory
  8. Charge transfer complex
  9. Molecular orbital theory
  1. Crystal field theory
  2. Orbitals
  3. Charge Transfer Bands
  4. Charge Transfer bands ligand to metal and metal to ligand
  5. UV-visible spectroscopy
  6. IR spectroscopy
  7. Raman spectroscopy
  8. Molecular symmetry
  9. Symmetry and group theory

Readings Available from Library

QD461 .O37 2000  Elements of molecular symmetry / Yngve Öhrn; Öhrn, Yngve;
QD461 .O36  Atomic and molecular orbital theory [by] Peter O'D. Offenhartz; Offenhartz, Peter O'D;
QD461 .R57 1995 Molecular geometry / Alison Rodger, Mark Rodger; Rodger, Alison;
QD461 .S33  Chemical bonds and bond energy [by] R. T. Sanderson; Sanderson, R. T.;

last update: Saturday 8 September, 2018