<p> Chemistry 4620, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Spring, 2011 Department of Chemistry University of North Texas</p><p>Laboratory Lecture: Chemistry Building, Room 253, Tuesdays 2:00-2:50 PM Instructor: Dr. Mohammad A. Omary, Office: Building, Room 384, Telephone: 565-2443, E-mail: [email protected] </p><p>Laboratory Experiments: Room 280, Tuesdays 3:00-6:00 PM or Wednesdays 1:30-4:30 PM Laboratory Instructors: 1- Roy McDougald: Room 347, Telephone: 369-5752, E-mail: [email protected] 2- Chip Browning: Room 386, Telephone: 369-5752, E-mail: [email protected] </p><p>Textbook: Handouts distributed for each experiment.</p><p>Grading Policy: Set by lab TA; accounts for evaluation of the following:  Notebook (data organization and completeness).  Quizzes (when deemed necessary).  TA assessment of lab techniques and attitude.  PowerPoint presentation of BOTH the skills experiments AND “Big Picture” project; CONTENT BUILT AND UPDATED EACH WEEK STARTING WEEK 2.</p><p>Experiments:</p><p>Weeks 1&2: Bench Synthesis: Syntheses and Characterization of Three Different Forms of Manganese.</p><p>Weeks 3& 4: Organometallic Synthesis Using Schlenk Techniques: Synthesis and Characterization of a “Piano Stool” Compound.</p><p>Weeks 5-12: “Big Picture” Project.</p><p>The idea of the “Big Picture” project is to emulate contemporary research in inorganic chemistry. The laboratory experiments in each project have two parallel components; one is a “known component” based on published literature procedures for known materials and experiments while the other is a “discovery component” that has a potential to lead to a publication if successful. Both components have a “Big Picture”, a finite research problem that the various syntheses and characterization methods are combined to solve. This has been documented successfully in the literature for the first “known” component and as is hoped to be duplicated for the second “discovery” component either during the semester or as a follow-up thereafter. Whether the discovery component succeeds completely or partially, or whether it does not succeed, it needs to be accounted for in the final PowerPoint presentation for your “Big Picture” project. It is hoped that this final presentation will be the backbone for a journal article or conference presentation coauthored by the students in charge of each project, so all the data need to be presented in the presentation. More details about the format of the presentation as well as what is required in each experiment will be provided during the semester.</p><p>Disability Accommodations: All reasonable accommodation will be made to facilitate special needs. However, it is the student's responsibility to make any special needs known to the instructor. It is recommended that students with special needs first meet with the staff of the Office of Disability Accommodation (ODA), Union 324, Tel. (940) 565-4323, then meet with the instructor. For more information, see the ODA website.</p>