Solids are an important part of our materials-intensive world and at the foundation of many emerging technologies. This course focuses on the relationships among structure, composition, and periodic properties; the characterization of atomic and molecular arrangements in crystalline and amorphous solids such as metals, minerals, ceramics, semiconductors and proteins; and applications to the fields of electronics, optics, magnetics, catalysis, and energy generation and storage. Laboratory work emphasizes the synthesis, purification and characterization of inorganic compounds. Three class periods and one laboratory period per week. Offered each fall.

Prerequisite: Chemistry 220 or Chemistry 230 or Geology 200 or Physics 210.

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Hydrogen Atom Orbital Viewer by Paul Falstad. Under menu/view, unselect energy. When the colors look good you might also want to choose stopped in the window so the phase does not keep changing. Note that you can drag the orbital to look at it from different sides. There does not seem to be a print option so use screen capture to collect images. (For OSX use command-shift 4 and then drag a box to capture the image. For Windows hold the Alt key down while pressing Print Screen to capture the active window.)  

3-D Graphic Examples of Atomic Orbitals by Thomas Chasteen shows electron probability density. Be sure to drag on the orbital picture.

Hydrogenic Orbitals by S. Immel has atomic and hybrid orbitals. Be sure to drag on the orbital picture.

Pi molecular orbitals for nitrogen dioxide

Hexagonal Close Packing
Cubic Close Packing
Solid State Structures
ZSM-5 Structure

Metal Carbonyl Compounds
Sandwich Compounds
Metal-Metal Bonds
Reactions

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How to Read and Understand the International Tables for Crystallography A, J. Appl. Cryst. (2010) 43, 1150–1171
International Tables for Crystallography A, the standard reference for space group symmetry
Space Group Equivalent Position Tables from the Bilbao Crystallographic Server
Space Group Diagrams from University College London (These diagrams combine the symmetry elements and the equivalent position diagrams and are rotated compared to the International Tables.)
Welcome to the world of crystallography from CSIC, Madrid
Crystallography from University of Oklahoma

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Data for ORTEP problems

Metalloprotein Structures
Metal Sites in Proteins Database
Protein Data Bank