Course Work

Structure  and  bonding  in  organometallic  compounds isolobal  analogies,  metal  carbonyls,  carbenes  and  NHC  complexes,  olefin  and  acetylene complexes,  alkyls  and  allyl  complexes, etc.

Group theory: Symmetry elements, point groups, representation theory, great orthogonality theorem,  SALCs. Time-dependent perturbation theory, light -matter interaction. H-like atoms, angular momenta and selection rules of transitions, etc.

Principles of biochemistry and molecular biology, role of metal ions in biology, principles of coordination chemistry, amino acids and other bioligands, proteins secondary and tertiary structure, nucleic acids, iron proteins, iron transport, role of zinc in biology zinc enzymes, biological importance of nickel, copper proteins, etc.

Crystal symmetry. Generation and properties of X-rays. Diffraction theory,  reciprocal lattice.  Experimental aspects. Rotation, Weissenberg precession and diffractometer techniques. Structure factor equation. Electron density function. Phase problem. Structure solution. Introduction to direct methods.