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In article <1993Jan12.012708.8272@reed.edu> sharvy@reed.edu (V Headshape)
writes:
>Is the study/chemistry of metals generally regarded as part of
>inorganic chemistry, or would that just be grouped into physical
>chemistry generally?

     Some work on metals is definitely inorganic chemistry, some is
definitely physical, and a lot of it falls into the vast grey area in
between.

>Also, stereochemistry seems to considered a
>branch of organic chemistry, but isn't it just "3-dimensional"
>chemistry, and therefore not restricted to organic compounds?

     That's right.  In fact, stereochemistry becomes vastly more
interesting once you leave the first row of the periodic table.  The
reason that stereochemistry is usually first learned in organic class is
probably simply that organic chemistry is usually studied before
inorganic.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca