The Scope of Inorganic Chemistry
Medicine Biochemistry/Biology Organic Chemistry
•MRI • metalloproteins • organometallics
•X‐ray contrast imaging • metalloenzymes • metal compounds in
•drugs (arthritis, cancer,… • O2 binding synthesis/catalysis
• catalysis
• ion transport
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
• new compounds
• geometrical and electronic structures
• reactivity
Materials Science Organometallic Chemistry
• electrical and magnetic Geology/Geochemistry
• new compounds
properties of solids • synthesis and structure of
• structures
• solid state structures minerals
• catalysis
• semiconductors • stellar evolution
• superconductors (high Tc) • astrochemistry
, If some universal catastrophe were to engulf the world, and humankind
Could retain one scientific concept in order to rebuild civilization, what
would that one concept be?
Response for physicists (Richard Feynman in “Six Easy Pieces”):
The modern idea of atoms.
Response for chemists:
The periodic table
The periodic table encapsulates the concept of elements,
organizes physical and chemical trends of substances,
and compares the structure of the different atoms—
All in a very small space.
Inorganic Chemists think they own the Periodic Table.
So, How did it all start?
, Well,. . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMSYv_Z4SI8
Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait
The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall (we built the pyramids)
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries
That all started with the big bang! Hey!
Since the dawn of man is really not that long
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song
A fraction of a second and the elements were made
The bipeds stood up straight, the dinosaurs all met their fate
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and Pangea, see ya wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!
It all started with the big bang!
Medicine Biochemistry/Biology Organic Chemistry
•MRI • metalloproteins • organometallics
•X‐ray contrast imaging • metalloenzymes • metal compounds in
•drugs (arthritis, cancer,… • O2 binding synthesis/catalysis
• catalysis
• ion transport
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
• new compounds
• geometrical and electronic structures
• reactivity
Materials Science Organometallic Chemistry
• electrical and magnetic Geology/Geochemistry
• new compounds
properties of solids • synthesis and structure of
• structures
• solid state structures minerals
• catalysis
• semiconductors • stellar evolution
• superconductors (high Tc) • astrochemistry
, If some universal catastrophe were to engulf the world, and humankind
Could retain one scientific concept in order to rebuild civilization, what
would that one concept be?
Response for physicists (Richard Feynman in “Six Easy Pieces”):
The modern idea of atoms.
Response for chemists:
The periodic table
The periodic table encapsulates the concept of elements,
organizes physical and chemical trends of substances,
and compares the structure of the different atoms—
All in a very small space.
Inorganic Chemists think they own the Periodic Table.
So, How did it all start?
, Well,. . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMSYv_Z4SI8
Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait
The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall (we built the pyramids)
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries
That all started with the big bang! Hey!
Since the dawn of man is really not that long
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song
A fraction of a second and the elements were made
The bipeds stood up straight, the dinosaurs all met their fate
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and Pangea, see ya wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!
It all started with the big bang!
