Topics:

Structure of atoms and molecules

- Electronic structure of atoms, Schrodinger equation solution – basic conclusions, atomic orbitals, electron configuration.

- Periodic table of elements.

- Chemical bonding. MOLCAO. Molecular orbitals of diatomic and polyatomic molecules. Hybridisation, VSEPR.

- Molecular shape and molecular symmetry - point groups of symmetry.

Conductivity, magnetic properties

- Band theory of solids.

- Conductors, semi-conductors, insulators. Superconductivity. Magnetic properties.

Crystals

- Geometry of crystal lattice, crystallographic systems, Bravais lattices, space groups of symmetry.

- Structures of metallic, ionic, covalent and molecular crystals.

- Basic structural types.

Solutions and Reactions

- Solubility.

- Fundamental types of reactions - precipitation, acid-base, redox and radical reactions.

Systematic Inorganic Chemistry - Main group elements

- Hydrogen.

- Oxygen.

- Nobel gases - group 18 (VIII.A).

- Halogens - group 17 (VII.A).

- Chalcogens - group 16 (VI.A).