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CHEM518 COORDINATION AND CATALYSIS

Course Code: 2340518
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Chemistry
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

A review of structures and properties of coordination compounds. The use of organotransition metal complexes to catalyze the conversion of unsaturated substance into alcohols, ketones, carboxylic acids, aldehydes, polymers, etc. Discussions of reaction mechanism of catalytic isomerization, hydrogenation, hydroformylation addition, substitution, metathesis reaction, activation of oxygen and nitrogen, and their importance in industry.