We have recently developed an Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory Manual at Florida Atlantic University to provide undergraduate chemistry students the opportunity to learn in a �hands-on� environment key concepts in coordination chemistry. This experiment will incorporate different synthetic and analytical techniques with a discovery-based focus on the study of coordination compounds, crystal field theory, the spectrochemical series, and the counter ion effect. The students will synthesize three related cobalt compounds and their respective geometrical or optical isomers. They will use these compounds to perform two different microscale cation exchange column chromatography experiments involving separation and purification based on charge and polarity. The last section of the experimental procedure will be devoted to the characterization of all compounds using IR, UV-Vis, and for the first time in the Inorganic Chemistry curriculum, Raman Spectroscopy.

Synthesis and characterization of cobalt(III) compounds for inorganic chemistry laboratory manual

245th National Meeting (2013)

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