Physical Chemistry
Structure:
Quantum theory: principles and techniques; applications to a
particle in a box, harmonic
oscillator, rigid rotor and hydrogen atom; valence bond and
molecular orbital theories,
Hückel approximation; approximate techniques: variation and
perturbation; symmetry,
point groups; rotational, vibrational, electronic, NMR, and ESR
spectroscopy
Equilibrium:
Kinetic theory of gases; First law of thermodynamics, heat,
energy, and work; second
law of thermodynamics and entropy; third law and absolute entropy;
free energy; partial
molar quantities; ideal and non-ideal solutions; phase
transformation: phase rule and
phase diagrams - one, two, and three component systems; activity,
activity coefficient,
fugacity, and fugacity coefficient; chemical equilibrium, response
of chemical equilibrium
to temperature and pressure; colligative properties; Debye-Hückel
theory;
thermodynamics of electrochemical cells; standard electrode
potentials: applications -
corrosion and energy conversion; molecular partition function
(translational, rotational,
vibrational, and electronic).
Kinetics:
Rates of chemical reactions, temperature dependence of chemical
reactions;
elementary, consecutive, and parallel reactions; steady state
approximation; theories of
reaction rates - collision and transition state theory, relaxation
kinetics, kinetics of
photochemical reactions and free radical polymerization,
homogeneous catalysis,
adsorption isotherms and heterogeneous catalysis.
Inorganic Chemistry
Main
group elements:
General characteristics, allotropes, structure and reactions of
simple and industrially
important compounds: boranes, carboranes, silicones, silicates,
boron nitride, borazines
and phosphazenes. Hydrides, oxides and oxoacids of pnictogens (N,
P), chalcogens (S,
Se & Te) and halogens, xenon compounds, pseudo halogens and
interhalogen
compounds. Shapes of molecules and hard- soft acid base concept.
Structure and
Bonding (VBT) of B, Al, Si, N, P, S, Cl compounds. Allotropes of
carbon: graphite,
diamond, C60.
Synthesis and reactivity of inorganic polymers of Si and P.
Transition
Elements:
General characteristics of d and f block elements; coordination
chemistry: structure and
isomerism, stability, theories of metal- ligand bonding (CFT and
LFT), mechanisms of
substitution and electron transfer reactions of coordination
complexes. Electronic
spectra and magnetic properties of transition metal complexes,
lanthanides and
actinides. Metal carbonyls, metal- metal bonds and metal atom
clusters, metallocenes;
transition metal complexes with bonds to hydrogen, alkyls, alkenes
and arenes; metal
carbenes; use of organometallic compounds as catalysts in organic
synthesis.
Bioinorganic chemistry of Na, K. Mg, Ca, Fe, Co, Zn, Cu and Mo.
Solids:
Crystal systems and lattices, miller planes, crystal packing,
crystal defects; Bragg's Law,
ionic crystals, band theory, metals and semiconductors, Different
structures of AX, AX2,
ABX3 compounds,
spinels.
Instrumental
methods of analysis:
Atomic absorption and emission spectroscopy including ICP-AES, UV-
visible
spectrophotometry, NMR, mass, Mossbauer spectroscopy (Fe and Sn),
ESR
spectroscopy, chromatography including GC and HPLC and
electro-analytical methods
(Coulometry, cyclic voltammetry, polarography amperometry, and ion
selective
electrodes).
Organic Chemistry
Stereochemistry:
Chirality of organic molecules with or without chiral centres.
Specification of
configuration in compounds having one or more stereogenic centres.
Enantiotopic and
diastereotopic atoms, groups and faces. Stereoselective and
stereospecific synthesis.
Conformational analysis of acyclic and cyclic compounds.
Geometrical isomerism.
Configurational and conformational effects on reactivity and
selectivity/specificity.
Reaction
mechanism:
Methods of determining reaction mechanisms. Nucleophilic and
electrophilic
substitutions and additions to multiple bonds. Elimination
reactions. Reactive
intermediates- carbocations, carbanions, carbenes, nitrenes,
arynes, free radicals.
Molecular rearrangements involving electron deficient atoms.
Organic
synthesis:
Synthesis, reactions, mechanisms and selectivity involving the
following- alkenes,
alkynes, arenes, alcohols, phenols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic
acids and their
derivatives, halides, nitro compounds and amines. Use of compounds
of Mg, Li, Cu, B
and Si in organic synthesis. Concepts in multistep synthesis-
retrosynthetic analysis,
disconnections, synthons, synthetic equivalents, reactivity
umpolung, selectivity,
protection and deprotection of functional groups.
Pericyclic
reactions:
Electrocyclic, cycloaddition and sigmatropic reactions. Orbital
correlation, FMO and
PMO treatments.
Photochemistry:
Basic principles. Photochemistry of alkenes, carbonyl compounds,
and arenes.
Photooxidation and photoreduction. Di-π- methane rearrangement,
Barton reaction.
Heterocyclic
compounds:
Structure, preparation, properties and reactions of furan,
pyrrole, thiophene, pyridine,
indole and their derivatives.
Biomolecules:
Structure, properties and reactions of mono- and di-saccharides,
physicochemical
properties of amino acids, chemical synthesis of peptides,
structural features of
proteins, nucleic acids, steroids, terpenoids, carotenoids, and
alkaloids.
Spectroscopy:
Principles and applications of UV-visible, IR, NMR and Mass
spectrometry in the
determination
of structures of organic molecules.
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