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Using the Cambridge Structural Database to Introduce Important Inorganic Concepts
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The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) contains more than 200,000 crystal structures. A classroom edition of ConQuest (an interface to CSD) has recently been released. It can be used to introduce students to important structural concepts as well as chemoinformatics. The classroom use of ConQuest to introduce inorganic concepts such as back-bonding, high- and low-spin transition metals, the Jahn–Teller effect, and the eighteen-electron rule as a laboratory or exercise is presented.
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Second-Year UndergraduateKeywords (Domain):
Inorganic ChemistryKeywords (Pedagogy):
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- Received: August 03, 2009
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