| Lecture 1 | Review of course content and requirements. General comments on the atomic and chemical properties of non-metals elements; feasibility of cation and anion formation; trends in bond energies and their relevance to non-metal chemistry. |
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| Lecture 2 | Boron structures of elemental boron and some borides; boron-nitrogen compounds; boron halides, boron oxides and borates; boron hydrides; - an introduction. |
| Lecture 3 | Carbon catenation; comparison with silicon; chemistry of the elements; carbon monoxide as a ligand, p-acidity; the halides - the importance of thermodynamic versus kinetic stability. |
| Lecture 4 | Nitrogen general comments - the importance of lone pair repulsion in N-X single bonds; thermodynamic instability of many nitrogen compounds; dinitrogen complexes; nitrogen hydrides; the nitrogen halides; nitrogen oxides. Comparison with phosphorus. |
| Lecture 5 | Oxygen dioxygen and ozone; the hydrides - hydrogen bonding; structural and acid/base classification of oxides of the elements. Comparison with sulphur. |
| Lecture 6 | The Halogens the haloacids, oxides, oxoacids, oxoanions and their redox properties; the interhalogens. |