Week 14

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2017: Tuesday, April, 4. at 8.10 and
Thursday, April, 6. at 10.10-12 in 28B.0-5 and 13.00 - 17 in 15.2

- The alkali metals, properties and reactivity, complex formation and solution chemistry.
- End of chapter problem 11.23, 11.25, 11.27, 11.28.
- K-Na-pumping

Please recall the PC-lab (Those who hasn't finalised the report, please do so) and prepare for the

Case study 5: Bidentate ligands

Introduction to Nickel (and Pd and Pt) - Look through sec.21.11, slides "IC 18 ..." and "The preparation of [Nien3]Cl22H2O ...."
Introduction to Iron (Look through sec. 21.9, slides "Iron" and "Iron compounds in two oxidation states")

Thursday afternoon : (manuals on Moodle and homepage)
Preparation of solutions of nickel-ethanediamine complexes in solution and measurement of their visible absorption spectra.
Synthesis of two iron compounds, and one nickel compound.

Next Group 2 metals .
Sections 12.4, 12.8.
Table 12.1
Notes p. 8
End of chapter problem 12.22, 12.24.
Group 12 metals: Sect. 22.13 (Zinc) 23.13 (cadmium and mercury)
- Coordination types and characteristic coordination compounds
- Common aqueous chemistry and the identification of Zn, Cd and Hg
Hg(I) is Hg22+; from where do we know?
Zink ions in metallo-proteins, Sect 29.5

To follow: Case study 3