Describe aqueous and non-aqueous solvents.
Inorganic Chemistry II
GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
1. Understand the chemistry and uses of non-aqueous system
2. Understand the chemistry and application of silicates
3. Understand the production of silicones by the hydrolysis of alkyl substituted chlorosilanes
4. Understand supramolecular chemistry and binding of metal ions by macrocyclic molecules
5. Understand the chemistry of the inert (noble) gases
1.1 Describe aqueous and non-aqueous solvents.
1.2 Classify solvents as aqueous and nonaqueous.
1.3 State the Arrhenius definitions of acids and bases.
1.4 Describe the autoionization of nonaqueous acids and bases.
1.5 Describe liquid ammonia as a nonaqueous solvents and the behaviour of metals in liquid ammonia.
1.6 List the chemical properties of metalammonia solutions.
1.7 List the uses of metal ammonia solutions.
1.8 Compare the acidic strength of the hydrogen halides.
1.9 Compare the physical properties of the hydrogen halides along the following parameters - melting points, boiling points, specific conductivity, dielectric constant.
