1. Physical

(a) Mole concept, Strength of Solutions, Chemical equivalent, Chemical calculations related to volumetric and gravimetric analysis, Chemical equilibrium, Calculation of molecular weight of (a) Acid (b) Base (c) Electrolyte and Non- electrolyte using colligative properties.

(b) Ionic Equilibrium, Solubility Product, Common ion effect, pH of (a) Buffer Solution (b) Aqueous solution of salt, Acids and Bases, HSAB concepts.

(c) Balancing of Redox reactions.

 (d) Kinds of reversible electrolytes, calculation of E.M.F. of cell; concentration cell (a) with and (b) without transport.

(e) Distribution Law: Solvent extraction (a) in one lot (b) in several lot; Phase component, degree of freedom, eutectic Point, azeotropic mixture, critical solution temperature

(f) Concept of path dependent and path independent functions, properties of exact differentials, idea of Gibbs free energy, enthalpy and entropy.

2. Organic

(a) Hybridization, Fission of covalent bond, Polarization of covalent bond: Inductive, Resonance, Hyperconjugation, Electrophile, Nucleophile, Idea of SN1 and SN2, E1 and E2.

(b) Nomenclature of organic compounds, R, Z and E, Z nomenclature, interconversion of of different projection formula, conformation of disubstituted cyclohexanes and decalins.

(c) Knowledge of reaction intermediates such as carbocations, carbanions, carbon free radicals, carbenes, nitrenes and benzynes.

(d) Methods of investigation of reaction mechanism including isotopic tracer method.

3. Inorganic

(a) Atomic orbitals, electronic configuration of atoms (L-S coupling), Periodic properties of element – Ionic radii, ionization potential, electron affinity, electronegativity

(b) VSEPR theory: Shape/Structure of molecules.

(c) Identification of symmetry elements and point groups in simple molecules.

(d) Types of errors, propagation of errors, accuracy and precision, least square analysis, average standard deviation.

(e) Principle of acid-base, permanganometry, dichromatory and thiosulphate titrations

(f) Principle of gravimetric analysis of Fe, Cu, Ni, Mg, sulphate and chloride

(g) Principle of qualitative analysis of following in presence of each other

GROUP: B

1. Thermodynamics Partial molar quantities, excess thermodynamics function, Debye Huckel theory for activity coefficient of electrolyte solution, entropy, residual entropy and third law.

2. Chemical Kinetics Mechanism of photochemical and thermal chain reactions, collision theory of reaction rates, kinetics of unimolecular reactions, primary and secondary salt effect, kinetics of enzyme reactions, laws of photochemistry, quantum yield, photophysical and photochemical process.

3. Electrochemistry Debye Huckel – Onsager equation, electrokinetic phenomenon, zeta potential, sedimentation potential and streaming potential.

4. Surface Chemistry Adsorption and absoption, Freundlich, Langmuir isotherm and BET equation.

5. Quantum Chemistry Quantum mechanical operators and commutation relation, eigen functions, eigen values, orthonormality, symmetric and antisymmetric wave functions, Particle in one and three dimensional box with infinite potential energy barrier, degeneracy, simple harmonic oscillator (derivation not required), calculation of probability density of a state function whose (a) wave function is Cartesian coordinate dependent & (b) Spherical coordinate dependent. Energy calculation of molecular orbitals of (a) butadiene (b) cyclopropenyl radical by Huckel molecular orbital method. Calculation of electron density, charge density of each carbons of the above two systems.

6. Bonding and structures of (a) Boranes, carboranes, borazines, silicates, phosphazines, S-N compounds (b) Carbonyls, nitrosyls, dinitrogen and π – complexes of olefins and cyclopentadienes with transition metals (spectroscopic evidences also required)

7. General characteristics of transition metal and inner transition metals

8. Coordination Chemistry (a) VBT (b) CFT – CFSE, Jahn – Teller effect, spectral and magnetic properties of complexes, stability of complexes, nucleophilic substitution reaction in square planar and octahedral complexes, trans effect.

9. Organometallic Chemistry Oxidative addition, reductive elimination, insertion and deinsertion reaction, hydroformylation of alkenes, hydrogenation of alkenes, Water gas shift reaction, Waker’s process, Monsanto process, Ziegler – Natta Polymerization.

 10.Photochemistry Difference between photochemical and thermal reactions, photophysical process, photochemistry of ketones, photoreduction, photolysis Norrish I & II, Paterno – Buchi reaction, photochemistry of 1,3 and 1,4 dienes (both singlet and triplet state) di – π methane rearrangement.

11.Pericyclic Reactions Concerted and non - concerted reactions, FMO theory of electrocyclic, cycloaddition, sigmatropic and chelotropic reactions, discussion of regiospecificity, stereospecificity of pericyclic reactions with special reference to Diel’s Alder reaction, Claisen rearrangement and 1,3 – dipolar addition.

12.Spectroscopy Problems based on UV, IR, 1H NMR and Mass spectroscopy of organic compounds.

13. Aromaticity, antiaromaticity, nonaromaticity of benzenoid and non – benzenoid compounds, aromaticity and physical properties.

14.Stereochemistry Chiral and achiral molecules, identification of chiral molecules on the basis of point group consideration, R,S and E, Z – descriptors of chiral molecules having (a) Chiral centre (b) Chiral axis (c) Chiral planes. Stereochemistry of (i) E2 reaction (ii) E1 reaction (iii) SN1, SN2 and SNi reaction, stereochemistry of reduction of C = C by homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Stereochemistry of the addition of Grignard reagent across C = O in compounds containing one chiral carbon.

15.Reactions by names Pinacol pinacolone, Favroskii, Bayer – Villiger, Arndt – Eistert, Beckmann, Mannich, Aldol type reaction, Michael, Vilsmeir and Barton reaction

16.Reagents LDA, LDC, TMSC, TBTH, BF3, B2H6, Wilkinson’s reagent, DMSO, NBS, Peracids.

17.Spectroscopy Rotational spectrum of diatomic molecules, rotational energy, selection rules, population of rotational levels, derivation of junax, calculation of internuclear distance, effect of isotopic substitution, stark effect and its application. Vibration spectra of harmonic and anharmonic diatomic molecules, Morse function, force constant, interaction of rotation and vibration – different branches. Polarizability, classical and quantum theory of Raman spectrum, rotational and vibrational Raman spectrum, Mutual exclusion principle.