Course detail
General and Inorganic Chemistry II
FCH-BA_ACH2Acad. year: 2025/2026
Introduction in systematic inorganic chemistry, chemical periodicity, origin and distribution of elements on the Earth. General characteristic of transition and intransition metals, metalloids and non-metals. Hydrogen and its isotopes, types of hydrides. Oxygen, ozone, types and structure of oxides, water, hydrogen peroxide. Alkali metals, hydrides, oxides, peroxides, hyper oxides, ozonides, halogens hydroxides, salts of oxoacids, organometalic and complex compounds. Boron, borides, borans. Aluminium, aluminothermy, binary compounds, hydroxides, salts of oxoacids, organometalic and complex compounds. Carbon, fullerens, graphite, carbides, oxides, oxo, peroxo and thioacids. CN compounds, organometalic compounds. Silicon, silanes, halogen derivates, oxides and oxoacids, silicates and aluminosilicates, siloxans. Germanium, tin and lead. Nitrogen, nitrides, ammonia and ammoniac salts. Phosphorus, oxoacids and their derivates. Sulphur and group of selenium, chalcogens hydrogen compounds. Halogens, halogens hydrogen compounds, types of halogenides. Rare gases and their compounds. Scandium group. Titanium, zirconium, hafnium and their compounds. Vanadium, niobium, tantalum. Chromium, molybdenum and tungsten. Manganese, technetium and rhenium. Iron, cobalt and nickel, complex compounds. Light and hard platinum metals compounds of ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, rhodium, palladium and platinum. Copper, silver and gold. Zinc, cadmium and mercury, organometallic and complex compounds.
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Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
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Offered to foreign students
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Attendance of the lectures is voluntary. Every week there is a tutorial day for students of all types of study programs.
Aims
Basic knowledge of inorganic chemistry required to understand more advanced chemical subjects.
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Basic literature
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BKCP_CHTPO Bachelor's
specialization PCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
specialization BT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
specialization CHPL , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory - Programme BPCP_CHTPO Bachelor's
specialization CHPL , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
specialization PCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
specialization BT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory - Programme NPAP_ENVI Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Hydrogen and water
3. Alkali metals
4. Alkali earth metals
5. Group 13 elements: boron, aluminium, gallium, indium, thallium
6. Carbon
7. Group 14 elements: silicon, germanium, tin, lead
8. Nitrogen
9. Group 15 elements: phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, bismuth
10. Oxygen
11. Group 16 elements: sulfur, selenium, tellurium, polonium
12. Group 17: Halogens; Group 18: Noble gases
13. Transition and inner transition elements
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Lewis structures and VSEPR of hydrogen compounds
3. Lewis structures and VSEPR of compounds of alkali metals and metals of the 2nd group
4. Lewis structures and VSEPR compounds of elements of the 13th group
5. Lewis structures and VSEPR of carbon compounds
6. Lewis structures and VSEPR compounds of elements of the 14th group
7. Lewis structures and VSEPR of nitrogen compounds
8. Lewis structures and VSEPR of compounds of elements of the 15th group
9. Lewis structures and VSEPR of compounds of elements of the 16th group
10. Lewis structures and VSEPR of halogen compounds
11. Lewis structures and VSEPR of noble gas compounds
12. Lewis structures and VSEPR of transition metal compounds - 1st part
13. Lewis structures and VSEPR of transition metal compounds - 2nd part