Chemistry 127

Homework for week 12

Reading: The rest of Chapter 9 and sections 10.1 and 10.2 of Chapter 10.

Exercises for Wednesday, December 3

Chapter 9: 72, 74, 76, 78

Chapter 10: 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

Exercises for Friday, December 5

Chapter 10: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 29, 30, 31, 32, 33

Exercises for Monday, December 8

Assign point groups to: BF₃, CS₂, H₂S, XeOF₄ (see p 364) ClF₃

Reflective Questions (have your response ready by Friday and turn it in on Monday)

1. After receiving the foundations in general chemistry you will study each of the five core areas of chemistry: organic, inorganic, physical, analytical and biochemistry.

a) Find out what each of these areas involves. That is, what does an organic chemist do, what does an analytical chemist do, etc.

b) In modern chemistry theses boundaries are artificial and all chemists need to used the information from all of the fields of chemistry (and physics, math and biology as well) to do there research. Combine any two of the core areas and think of a problem that a chemist working at the interface of these two core areas would work on. For example a bio-inorganic chemist might study the properties of iron-oxygen binding in hemoglobin of the blood.