CHEM 4320

Should be renamed Organometallics...

Far from a comprehensive overview of theoretical inorganic chemistry from the standpoint of bonding, structure, and physical inorganic chemistry.

Furthermore, Pu is very ineffective at teaching. His "slow pace" that everyone is praising him for is just laughable. It's not a slow pace...it's called repeating lectures for 3 lectures in a row.
After going through a table of 25 different types of ligands for electron counting, you would think that the everyone would have gotten the picture.
Also, Crabtree would be a good book to supplement. I would argue that Hartwig's book would be better suited for the class in general.

But nonetheless, the lack of a theoretical inorganic course in the department should be addressed. I think that they are relying on Demas' 3811 class to cover that but...let's be serious here....

Really?

Professor Pu is very fair and the tests consisted of exactly what he had in lecture notes. Thought I had done terrible all semester, but ended up doing really well! So it's fair to say there's a heavy curve too.

This class is deceptively easy. Answers to homework assignments are in the back of the book, but the answers provided are not adequate test answers. The averages for the three tests were in the low 60s, although Professor Pu has a massive curve at the end of the semester. The final is worth 50% of your grade which can be a bit overwhelming. Pu is a good lecturer and it becomes easier to understand him the more you attend his lectures. However, the material covered in lecture is not necessarily the material covered on the exam.

Course is relatively easy to keep up with as Professor Pu teaches at an extremely slow pace. This helps offset the fact that his english is a bit hard to understand. He also posts his lecture slides online. The textbook for the class is pretty good, if you actually bother reading it. He pulls some test questions from the textbook, so the tests are hard but manageable.