Integrated Approach to Coordination Chemistry (eBook)

Rosemary A. Marusak is former chair of the Chemistry Department and cochair of the Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Program at Kenyon College. She is completing a degree in veterinary medicine at Michigan State and is a?research associate in the CVM-MSU Equine Foot Laboratory where she conducts cell biology and molecular biology research investigating diseases of the equine foot. Kate Doan, a former assistant professor of chemistry at Kenyon College, is currently pursuing master's degrees in science education and mathematics education at the University of Minnesota. Scott D. Cummings, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Kenyon College.

Acknowledgments.

1. Experimental Inorganic Chemistry: A History of Dazzling
Color!

2. Levels 1-2. Werner's Notion--Creating the
Field: Synthesis and Analysis of Cobalt Ammine Coordination
Compounds.

3. Levels 3 and 4. Molecular Geometry and Stability: Solid and
Solution Phase Analysis of
N,N'-disalicylaldehyde-1,3-propanediimine nickel(II).

4. Levels 3-4. Reactivity I: Substitution
Reactions--The Reaction of Aquapentacyanoferrate(II) Ion
[Fe(CN)5(H2O)]¯3- with Amino
Acids.

5. Levels 4 and 5. Electron Transfer Reactions--Structure,
Properties and Reactivity of Tris(bidentate chelate) cobalt(II/III)
Complexes.

6. Levels 4 and 5. Metals in Medicine: Synthesis and Biological
Reactivity of the Platinum Anticancer Drug, cis-Platin and its
Isomer, trans-Platin.

7. Levels 4 and 5. Metals in the
Environment--Cd¯2+ Sequestration by Phytochelatins
and Bioremediation.

8. Level 5. Metals in Molecular Biology--Synthesis,
Photophysical and Chiral Properties of
Tris(1,10-Phenanthroline)Chromium(III): Metal Complex DNA
Interactions and Reactivity.

9. Level 5. Oxidation of a Natural Product by a Vanadium
Catalyst: Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Vanadyl-bis
(2,4-pentanedione), VO(acac)2.

Appendix 1. Introduction to Pulsed NMR Spectroscopy of Metal
Complexes.

Appendix 2. Introduction to Cyclic Voltammetry.

Appendix 3. States and Term Symbols for Polyelectronic
Systems.

Appendix 4. Setting up an Maintaining CHO Cell Culture.

Appendix 5. Setting Up and Maintaining Yeast Culture.

Appendix 6. A Brief Guide to Writing in Chemistry.

Index.

"Useful to provide pertinent answers to students whose instructors
choose to skip an experiment that may be needed for the next topic.
(Structural Chemistry, May 2, 2008)

"Even coordination chemists who already know everything ...
can benefit from this book as a source of inspiration...Not many
textbooks can claim to have achieved that and to deserve the label
"surprising"." (Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
January 2008)