Inorganic chemistry I intends to enrich learners with knowledge of the main groups and period of a periodic table. In this course emphasis is put on group I to group IV with brief introduction to transition elements.

The course focuses on:

• Buildup of the periodic table
• Main group elements
• Transition element

This course consist of the following contents: 

• Development of the Periodic Table basing on the duplet and octet rule
• Trend for Electron Shells and the sizes of Atoms
• Trend for Ionization Energy
• Trend for Electron Affinities
• Electronegativity
• Electopositivity
• Trend for Metals , non-metals, and Metalloids
• General Trend for Groups and Periods for the Active Metals
• Trend for Group and Period for Selected Non-metals (group III, group IV and group VII).
• Trend of metallic character
• Non-metallic character
• Ionic radius trend
• Covalent radius trend
• Bond polarity and electro-negativity trend
• Drawing Lewis structures
• Trend in ability to form resonance structures
• Transitional metal
• Properties of transitional metals

By the end of the unit the learner should be able to:

• construct the Periodic Table basing on the duplet and octet rule
• explain the trend for Electron Shells and the sizes of Atoms
• explain the trend for Ionization Energy
• explain the trend for Electron Affinities
• explain the trend for Metals, non-metals, and Metalloids
• describe the general Trend for Groups and Periods for the Active Metals
• Describe the trend for Group and Periods for Selected Non-metals in group III, group IV and group VII of the periodic table.
• State and explain the trend of metallic character
• State and explain the trend of non-metallic character
• State and explain the trend of ionic radius
• State and explain the trend of covalent radius
• State and explain the trend of bond polarity and electronegativity
• Draw lewis structures
• State and explain the trends in ability to form resonance structures

Assessment will be done in the following ways and in the aspects shown below:

1. Continuous Assessment 40 marks
2. End of Semester Final exam 60 marks

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