CY5012 : Main Group & Bio Inorganic Chemistry

Main Group Chemistry Structure and bonding in polyhedral boranes and carboranes, styx notation; Wade’s rule; electron count in polyhedral boranes; synthesis of polyhedral boranes; isolobal analogy; boron halides; phosphine-boranes; boron heterocycles; borazine. Silanes, silicon halides, silicates, silicones, silanols; germanium, tin and lead organyls; silenes, germenes and stannenes; phosphorous halides, acids and oxyacids of phosphorous, phosphazenes; sulphur halides, oxo acids of sulpur; structural features and reactivity of reactivity of S-N heterocycles. Synthesis and reactivity of organo-lithium, -beryllium and -magnesium compounds; calixarines, cryptands and crown ethers in complexation chemistry. Preparation and reactivity of aluminium organyls; carbalumination, hydroalumination; chemistry of Ga(I) and In(I); reduction of Al, Ga and In organyls; germanium, tin and lead organyls. Bio-inorganic Chemistry Transition elements in biology - their occurrence and function, active-site structure and f