NKEB06 · 6 credits · Basic level (G1F) · Kemiteknik, Kemisk biologi, Kemi
Inorganic Chemistry
Active · next start VT 2027
85%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 20 Mar 2026 · 39 students
77%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 197 students
47%
Harder than 47% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 76 students.
Part of 3 programmes
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
77% passed · 197 students
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- 76%37
- 42%33
- 86%51
- 89%37
Re-exams
68% passed · 38 students
- 60%5
- 43%7
- 83%12
- 67%9
- 80%5
- Pass the re-exam: 68% (38 students), compared with 77% (197 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 54% (235 students)
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 189 students
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Later rounds
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About the course
Aim
The aim of the course is to give the basis of inorganic chemistry for further studies in chemistry. After passing the course the student is able to:
- describe the relationship between the electronic structure of atoms/ions and chemical bonding
- describe the structure, stability and properties of solid compounds
- predict chemical reactions and analyze their driving force
- discuss compounds with metals
- use inorganic laboratory techniques
Content
The chemical and physical properties of the elements taking as starting point their positions in the periodic table. The geometry of s-, p-, and d-orbitals and the origin of s, p and d bonds. The difference between ground state and bonding state. Important trends in the periodic table, e.g. acidic and basic properties of cations and anions in water. The relationship between the crystal structure of ionic compounds and their stabilty. The concepts Hard and Soft Acids and Bases (HSAB), Lewis acid and Lewis base. Thermochemical cycles (Born-Haber cycles). Inorganic redox reactions and E/pH-diagrams (Pourbaix diagram). Coordination compounds and Ligand (Crystal) Field Theory. Metal-organic compounds and their chemistry.
The laboratory course includes the synthesis of a few inorganic compounds. Determination of the oxidation states of vanadium by redox titration. Synthesis of cobolt containing coordination compounds and spectroscopic determination of their ligand field splitting. Fundamental organometallic synthesis.
- Examiner
- Henrik Pedersen
- Scheduled hours
- 72 h
- Main field of study
- Kemiteknik, Kemisk biologi, Kemi