RGPV TET CHEMISTRY Syllabus | Download RGPV TET Engg CHEMISTRY Syllabus
RGPV TET CHEMISTRY Syllabus | Download RGPV TET Engg CHEMISTRY Syllabus
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 ener gy; 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 andMo.
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, AX
2ABX3 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 stereogeniccentres. 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 followingalkenes, 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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