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30
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Course No.
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Course Title
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No. of Units
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Pre-requisites
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Th.
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Pr.
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Credit
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Chem 424
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Chemical Application of Group Theory
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2
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2
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Chem 322
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Course objective :
A course designed to give qualitative and semi quantitative treatment of group theory and its applications in chemistry. Particular emphasis will be devoted to vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of inorganic complexes .
Course Description :
Definition and theorems of group theory, molecular symmetry and the symmetry point groups, representations of groups, matrices as representation of symmetry operations, "The great orthogonality theorems", reduction of reducible representations, the direct product, construction of hybrid orbitals for sigma and pi-bonding in ABN molecules and their molecular orbitals, molecular vibrations, normal mode analysis and determination of Г3N , infrared and raman spectroscopy, assignments of vibrational spectra, ligand field theory, splitting of levels and terms in a chemical environment, transition from weak to strong crystal field, selection rules for electric-dipole transition, centrosymmetric and non-centrosymmetric complexes.
Main text books :
§ Group Theory for Chemists, G. Davidson, 1991, McMillan Press .
Subsidiary books :
§ Chemical Application of Group Theory, F. A. Cotton, 3rd ed., 1990 John Wiley and Sons .
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