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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. Which of the following minimizes nucleus-nucleus repulsion and promotes electron-nucleus interaction?
2. What molecule most likely produced this EPR spectrum?
3. Which of the following affects substitution at square planar metal centers?
4. The splitting of energy levels in the presence of a magnetic field is caused by which of the following?
5. The bond order of a molecule is given by the equation: ½ (bonding electrons – antibonding electrons).What accounts for the ½?
6. Compounds with octahedral molecular geometries sometimes elongate or compress through Jahn-Teller distortion.In doing so, which of the following occurs?
7. What is the bond order for dinitrogen, N2?
8. What is considered the rate determining step in an outer sphere redox reaction?
9. What happens to an outer sphere redox reaction, if the spin multiplicity is different?
10. You discover a new metal complex that exhibits high spin characteristics.What ligand properties can you predict?
11. The UV spectrum of metal complex A has a strong absorption at 412 nm.The UV spectrum of metal complex B has a strong absorption at 654 nm.If equal quantities of the two solutions of metal complexes are mixed, what would the resulting UV spectrum look like?
12. Phosphines are often used as molecular bridges between two metal centers.How should these phosphines be notated according to IUPAC nomenclature?
13. What is the role of a catalyst in a reaction?
14. A natural spring containing manganese is found to be highly acidic. Using the diagram below, what form of iron would you predict to be most abundant?
15. What happens when the electron pairing energy is larger than the octahedral field splitting energy?
16. Which of the following is true of substitutions at square planar metal centers?
17. When hexaaqua complexes of cobalt react with chloride ion, they undergo a change in the coordination chemistry.Why is this NOT the case when they react with ammonia?
18. Which of the following has T-shaped molecular geometry?
19. In NMR spectroscopy, what happens to the chemical shift and resonance frequency of a compound when the spectrometer frequency changes?
20. How do Cp complexes and derivatives of metal ions undergo ligand substitution reaction?
21. Using the flow chart provided, determine which point group a tennis ball would belong to.
22. Which of the following must be true when atomic orbitals combine to form molecular orbitals?
23. Which of the following cannot be studied by EPR?
24. Fill in the blank to complete the following analogy.Thermodynamics : free energy :: kinetics : ________________.
25. Choose the best answer to fill in the blanks.Raman activity is dictated by a change in the _____________ of a molecule, while IR activity is related to a change in the ____________.