Integrated Approach to Coordination Chemistry

- Acknowledgments.

1. Experimental Inorganic Chemistry: A History of Dazzling Color!

2. Levels 1-2. Werner's Notion-Creating the Field: Synthesis and Analysis of Cobalt Ammine Coordination Compounds.

3. Levels 3 and 4. Molecular Geometry and Stability: Solid and Solution Phase Analysis of N,N'-disalicylaldehyde-1,3-propanediimine nickel(II).

4. Levels 3-4. Reactivity I: Substitution Reactions-The Reaction of Aquapentacyanoferrate(II) Ion [Fe(CN)5(H2O)] with Amino Acids.

5. Levels 4 and 5. Electron Transfer Reactions-Structure, Properties and Reactivity of Tris(bidentate chelate) cobalt(II/III) Complexes.

6. Levels 4 and 5. Metals in Medicine: Synthesis and Biological Reactivity of the Platinum Anticancer Drug, cis-Platin and its Isomer, trans-Platin.

7. Levels 4 and 5. Metals in the Environment-Cd^2+ Sequestration by Phytochelatins and Bioremediation.

8. Level 5. Metals in Molecular Biology-Synthesis, Photophysical and Chiral Properties of Tris(1,10-Phenanthroline)Chromium(III): Metal Complex DNA Interactions and Reactivity.

9. Level 5. Oxidation of a Natural Product by a Vanadium Catalyst: Synthesis and Catalytic Activity of Vanadyl-bis (2,4-pentanedione), VO(acac)2.

- Appendix 1. Introduction to Pulsed NMR Spectroscopy of Metal Complexes.

- Appendix 2. Introduction to Cyclic Voltammetry.

- Appendix 3. States and Term Symbols for Polyelectronic Systems.

- Appendix 4. Setting up an Maintaining CHO Cell Culture.

- Appendix 5. Setting Up and Maintaining Yeast Culture.

- Appendix 6. A Brief Guide to Writing in Chemistry.

- Index

Rosemary A. Marusak is former chair of the Chemistry Department and cochair of the Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Program at Kenyon College. She is completing a degree in veterinary medicine at Michigan State and is a?research associate in the CVM-MSU Equine Foot Laboratory where she conducts cell biology and molecular biology research investigating diseases of the equine foot. Kate Doan, a former assistant professor of chemistry at Kenyon College, is currently pursuing master's degrees in science education and mathematics education at the University of Minnesota. Scott D. Cummings, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Kenyon College.

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