A. Introduction and recap of prerequisite material
• Mechanisms and techniques to study mechanisms
B. Spectroscopy
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) theory and applications
• IR and UV-Vis spectroscopy
• X-ray diffraction
C. Substitution reactions
• Mechanisms of substitution with octahedral complexes and square planar complexes
D. Organometallic complexes
• 18 electron rule
• Fundamental reactions
• Metal multiply bonded systems
E. Main group
• Differences and similarities between p-block and d-block reactivity
• Reactions of Group 13-15 elements
F. Oxidation and Reduction
• 1. Redox reactions & oxidation states in inorganic chemistry
• 2. Marcus theory of electron transfer
G. Special topics