The goals of this course are to expand participants' understanding of modern concepts of bonding, structure, and chemical reactivity among inorganic compounds and of the impact of newly developed inorganic compounds and materials on society.

Coverage will include a general treatment of ionic and covalent bonding across the periodic table including bonding in coordination compounds, hard and soft acids and bases, chelation therapy, the electrical properties of metals, semiconductors, and insulators, organometallic chemistry, catalysis in chemical industry, nitrogen fixation, zeolites, and inorganic superconductors.