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CHEM202 Final Exam - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
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MCQs on the various aspects of inorganic complexes, their physical and chemical properties, and the practical applications that these complexes can have in industrial, analytical, and medicinal chemistry.
 

CHEM202 Final Exam - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
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1. Compounds with octahedral molecular geometries sometimes elongate or compress through Jahn-Teller distortion.In doing so, which of the following occurs?
2. The bond order of a molecule is given by the equation: ½ (bonding electrons – antibonding electrons).What accounts for the ½?
3. Using the flow chart provided, determine which point group a tennis ball would belong to.
4. If a complex has a maximum absorption at 423 nm, what color would the complex appear to the human eye?
5. Using ligand field theory, which of the following would you predict to be the most paramagnetic?
6. Which of the following statements is true of nonbonding molecular orbitals?
7. In chromium and copper, the 3d orbital fills before the 4s orbital is filled.Why?
8. Marcus theory is used to approximate which of the following?
9. The effect of a coordinated ligand upon the rate of substitution of ligands opposite it is referred to as which of the following?
10. Which of the following is a properly balanced half reaction in basic media?
11. What is the oxidation state of chromium in [Cr(NH3)2(C2O4)2]- ?
12. A 19F NMR spectrum at room temperature reveals on well defined peak. When cooled slightly, the peak becomes broadened. At N2(l) temperatures, two well defined peaks are apparent. What is responsible for these observations?
13. What is the end product of the Contact Process?
14. Which of the following cannot be studied by EPR?
15. What is the role of a catalyst in a reaction?
16. In NMR spectroscopy, what happens to the chemical shift and resonance frequency of a compound when the spectrometer frequency changes?
17. What molecule most likely produced this EPR spectrum?
18. Which of the following would be predicted to have a g-factor value close to 2?
19. How would the complexes Λ-[Co(en)3]3+ and Δ-[Co(en)3]3+ differ?
20. Transition metals exhibit all of the following general characteristics, EXCEPT:
21. Which of the following is an ambidentate ligand?
22. Which of the following would be a spin allowed transition?
23. Which of the following affects substitution at square planar metal centers?
24. According to valence bond theory(VBT), O2 has no unpaired electrons. MO theory shows two unpaired electrons in a 2π* molecular orbital. Which of the following experiments supports the correct electron configuration?
25. Which of the following has C4v symmetry?