Chemistry
Total Marks – 200
Paper II
Marks – 100
1. Theory of chemical bonding – Elements of Valence bond and molecular orbital theories (idea of bonding, non-bonding and anti-bonding orbitals), Sigma and Pi bonds. Hybridization, Shape of molecules
2. Chemical kinetics – Rate law and its determination Order of reaction, Experimental methods, Temperature Dependence of rate constants, study of mechanism of a few selected reactions (1st and 2nd under reaction only)
3. Surface chemistry and catalysis – Physical adsorption and chemisorptions, surface area determination, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, acid-base and enzyme catalysis
4. Physical organic chemistry – elements of organic reaction mechanism, optical and geometric isomerism, conformational analysis, resonance. H-Bond and its effects on the properties of organic compound
5. Organic halogen Compounds – Types and synthetic application. Grignard reagents.
6. Chemistry of Carbonyl compounds – Types of Carbonyl compounds, preparation and reactions of Aldehydes and ketones
7. Aromatic chemistry – structure of Benzene with particular reference to mechanism of Electrophilic Substitution reactions
8. Organic Nitrogen compounds – Diazonium salts and their synthetic applications, preparation and reaction of aromatic amino compounds, introduction of the study of Dyes with particular reference to Azo Dyes
9. Chemistry of natural products – Elementary study of Carbohydrates, oils and fats, alkaloids and vitamins
10. Industrial organic Chemistry – Organic polymers, fermentation processes including preparation of antibiotics, petrochemical industry