FC3005 Inorganic Chemistry

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
3/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Ing. Lubomír Prokeš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ing. Lubomír Prokeš, Ph.D.
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Vocational Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Jachymiáková
Supplier department: Department of Physics, Chemistry and Vocational Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course, student should be able to:
understand and be able to explains structure and reactivity basic relationships of inorganic chemistry; use data to inorganic chemistry problem solutions independently; make reasoned decisions about reactivity of inorganic compounds; formulate a reasoned differential diagnosis for products deduction of similar reactions; interpret inorganic compounds characteristics.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, student should be able to:
understand and be able to explains structure and reactivity basic relationships of inorganic chemistry; use data to inorganic chemistry problem solutions independently; make reasoned decisions about reactivity of inorganic compounds; formulate a reasoned differential diagnosis for products deduction of similar reactions; interpret inorganic compounds characteristics.
Syllabus
  • Part A
  • 1. Basic nomenclature rules and norms of inorganic chemistry. Periodic system of elements – history, the present and future.
  • 2. Chemisty of non-transition elememnts – general charactization. Hydrogen and its compounds.
  • 3. Carbon and its inorganic compounds. Silicon and its compounds. Germanium, tin, lead and their compounds.
  • 4. Oxygen, properties, preparation and production. Characteristics and properties of oxides and oxoanions.
  • 5. Solutions, their types, expression of solution concentrations, electrolyte. Dissotiation step of the electrolyte, strong and weak electrolytes, dissotiation constant of the weak electrolytes. Solubility. Influence factors to matters solubility: saturated solution. Influence of temperature and pressure to the matters solubility. Henry’s law, constant of solubility.
  • 6. Acid/base equilibria and reactions. Acid/base theories: Arrhenius, Brönsted. Brönsted’s theory: conjugation pair. Autoprotolyse, neutralization, ion product of water, pH of strong and weak acids and bases, amfoteric matter. Buffers – function, composition, pH (Henderson-Hasselbach‘s equation). Hydrolyses, pH of hydrolysing salts. Acid/base theories: Lewis, Pearson.
  • 7. Basic chemical calculations.
  • Part B
  • 1. Alcalic metals, characteristics of the basic properties. Coumpounds of alcalic metals.
  • 2. Alcalic earth metals, characteristics, compounds.
  • 3. Boron and its compounds. Aluminium and its compounds. Gallium, indium, thalium and their compounds.
  • 4. Nitrogen and its compounds. Phosphorus and its compounds. Subgroup of arsenic: As, Sb, Bi and their compounds.
  • 5. Sulphur and its compounds (characteristics of sulphides). Se, Te, Po and their compounds.
  • 6. Halogens, their characteristics, compounds. Rare gasses, characteristics, compounds.
  • 7. General characteristics of transition elements, coordination compounds. Subgroup of scandium.
  • 8. Lanthanoids and actinoids – general characteristics. Subgroup of Ti, characteristics, compounds.
  • 9. Subgroup of V, characteristics, compounds. Subgroup of Cr, characteristics, compounds. Subgroup of Mn, characteristics, compounds.
  • 10. Subgroup of iron – Fe, Co, Ni. Platinum metals, alloys.
  • 11. Subgroup of copper, properties, compounds. Subgroup of zinc, characteristics, compounds.
Literature
    required literature
  • KLIKORKA, Jiří, Bohumil HÁJEK and Jiří VOTINSKÝ. Obecná a anorganická chemie. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1985, 591 s. info
  • BROWN, G. I. Úvod do anorganické chemie. 1. vydání. Praha: SNTL - Nakladatelství technické literatury, 1982, 330 stran. info
    recommended literature
  • JANČÁŘ, Luděk. Periodická soustava prvků (Periodic system of the elements). 1.vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, 154 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6621-2. info
  • MIČKA, Zdeněk and Ivan LUKEŠ. Teoretické základy anorganické chemie. 3., upr. rozš. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2007, 176 s. ISBN 9788024614465. info
Teaching methods
lectures
theoretical preparation
Assessment methods
colloquium;
oral exam - 70 % of correct answers is needed to pass.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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