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This course, titled Inorganic Chemistry, is designed for second-year undergraduate students in Fundamental Chemistry, Semester 4. The objective of this course is to equip students with essential skills in general inorganic chemistry, with a special focus on solid-state chemistry and coordination chemistry. The course content is structured into several chapters. It begins with an introduction to the structure of solid materials, including crystalline and amorphous states, crystal defects, metallic structures, and bonding models. Following this, the chemistry of transition elements is explored, covering coordination complexes, their optical and magnetic properties, and bonding theories. Students will also be introduced to crystallography concepts such as unit cells, crystal lattices, symmetry, and Bravais lattices. The course further covers various metallic structures and packing arrangements, ionic structures like CsCl and NaCl types, as well as covalent structures.