Integrated Approach to Coordination Chemistry: An Inorganic Laboratory Guide

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)]^3- 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—Cd²⁺ 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.