The lecture on Friday covered the last few slides of the REEL 1 and 2 content. This is where the cut off is for the content of the first exam. Be sure you know how to work through example problems covering all of this content. Any powerpoint lecture slides are posted on Carmen.
The next unit focuses on color, or more importantly how our eyes detect color. In an atom or molecule electrons reside in orbitals. In an atom the electrons can be found in atomic orbitals, and in a molecule they reside in molecular orbitals. If the energy difference between the highest occupied orbital and the lowest unoccupied orbital falls in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, our eyes will observe color. In class I discussed the relationship between the wavelengths of light these materials absorb and the color we observe with our eyes.
A UV-Vis spectrometer is the instrument we use to collect the absorption spectra for transition metal complexes and we will discuss and interpret them in the REEL labs as well as in class.
Thanks for singing Happy Birthday to me in class.
Song Played Before Lecture:
Trey Songz ft. Fabolous - Say Ahh
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