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Using the Cambridge Structural Database to Introduce Important Inorganic Concepts
Tiana V. Davis, M. Shahzad Zaveer, and Marc Zimmer
Department of Chemistry, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320-4196
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October 2002
Vol. 79 No. 10
p. 1278
Abstract
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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 Davis, Tiana V.; Zaveer, M. Shahzad; Zimmer, Marc. J. Chem. Educ. 2002 79 1278.
*  Keywords
 Computational Chemistry; Coordination Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Molecular Properties / Structure; Organometallics; Statistics / Data Analysis
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