My teaching focuses on inorganic chemistry and modern spectroscopy techniques.
Find a list of courses I teach regularly below. Please refer to the Online Class Schedule to find out when these courses are offered.
The structure of the atom, and its use in explaining the periodic table and properties of atoms; covalent bonding treatments - including Lewis Theory; the Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion Theory of structure, the valence bond and the molecular orbital theories of bonding. Crystal Field Theory applied to the structure and properties of transition metal complexes. Bonding theories of metallic materials and semi-conductors.
Lectures and laboratory.
Theories of bonding in transition metal complexes, including ligand field theory, applied to structure, physical properties, and reactivity of transition metal complexes: organometallic chemistry and catalysis. Metals in biological systems.
Lectures and laboratory.
This course demonstrates how quantum theory applies to the measurement of absorption and emission spectra of atoms and molecules. The course examines rotational, vibrational, and electronic spectroscopy. Photoelectron and related spectroscopies. Lasers and laser spectroscopy
Lectures and laboratory.
This module-based course will cover the areas of production, characterization and applications of nanoscale structures/materials. Each of the modules will be covered by a different professor (Drs. Capobianco, Cuccia, DeWolf and Skinner) as well as some guest lecturers.
Topics may include (but are not limited to): size dependent properties, synthesis of organic and inorganic nanostructures (particles, wires, rod, tubes), self-assembled structures, chemical patterning and functional nanopatterns, nanolithography, biomaterials. Applications will include photonics, optical properties, biodetection & biosensors and nanomachines.
This advanced level course is designed to provide the student with the fundamental aspects of spectroscopy and the importance of the applications to inorganic complexes, and organic molecules. Topics covered include: molecular symmetry and selection rules' vibration and rotation spectroscopy (IR, Raman, and microwave); electronic structure and spectra of transition metal ions; electron paramagnetic resonance; nuclear quadrupole resonance; absorption, fluorescence and phosphorescence.
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