Resources
A level Chemistry
Unit 3.4 – Introduction to transition metals
- defining features of a transition metal
- writing electronic configurations and applying to transition metal ions
- most common oxidation states
- shapes, formulas and colours of ligand complexes
- colour of complexes from d-orbital splitting
- applying Le Chatelier’s Principle to ligand exchange and how colorimetry can be used to study the equilibrium between complexes
- chemistry of transition metals with hydroxide ions
- how transition metals can act as homo and heterogenous catalysts