West Bengal SET CHEMICAL SCIENCE Syllabus

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West Bengal SET CHEMICAL SCIENCE Syllabus

CHEMICAL SCIENCE PAPER-II

(1) Structure and Bonding : Atomic orbitals, electronic configuration of atoms (L-S coupling) and the periodic properties of elements; ionic radili, ionisation potential, electron affinity, electronegativity; concept of hybridization. Molecular orbitals and
electronic configuration of homonuclear and heteronuclear diatomic molecules. Shapes of polyatomic molecules; VSEPR, theory Symmetry elements and point groups for simple molecules.Bond lengths, bond angles, bond order and bond energies. Types of Chemical Bond (weak and strong) intermolecular forces, structure of simple ionic and covalent solids, lattice energy.

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(2) Acids and bases : Bronsted and Lewis acids and bases, pH and pKa, acid-based concept in non-aqueous media; HSAB concept. Buffer solution.

(3) Redox Reactions : Oxidation numbers. Redox potential. Electrochemical series. Redox indicators.

(4) Energetics and Dynamics of Chemical Reactions : Law of conservation of energy

Energy and enthalpy of reactions. Entropy, free-energy, relationship between free energy change and equilibrium. Rates of chemical reactions (first-and second-order reaction). Arrhenius equation and concept of transition state. Mechanisms, including SN1 and SN2 reactions, electron transfer reactions, catalysis. Colligative properties of solutions.

(5) Aspects of s.p.d.f. Block Elements : General characteristics of
each block. Chemical principles involved in extractions and
purification of iron, copper, lead, zinc and aluminium. Coordination chemistry : structural aspects, isomerism, octahedrel and tetrahedral crystal-field splitting of dorbitals. CFSE, manetism and colour of transitionmetal iron. Sandwich compounds, metal carbonyls and metal clusters. Rare gas compounds, non-stoichiometric oxides. Radio activity and transmutation of elements. Isotopes and their applications.

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(6) IUPAC Nomenclature of simple Organic and Inorganic Compounds :

(7) Concept of Chirality : Recognition of symmetry elements and
chiral structures; RS nomenclature, diastereoisomerism in acyclic and cyclic systers; E-Zisomerisma. Conformational analysis of simple cyclic (chair and boat cyclo hexanes) and acyclicsystems. Interconversion of Fischer, Newman and Sawhorse
projections.

(8) Common Organic Reactions and Mechanisms : Reactive Intermediates. Formation and stability of carbonium ions. carbanians,
carbenes, pitrenes, radicals and aryanes. Nucleophilic, electrophilic radical substitution, addition and elemination reactions.
Familiar name reactions : Aldol, Perkin, Stobbe. Dieckmann
consideration; Hofmann, Schmidt, Lossen Curtius, Beckmann
and Fries rearrangements; Reimer-Tiemann, Reformatsky and
Grignard reactions Diels- Alder Reactions; Clasien rearrangement; Friedeal – Crafts reactions; Wittig reractions; and robinson
annulation. Routine functional group transformations and
interconversions of simple functionalities. Hydroboration,
Oppenaur oxidations; Clemmensen, Wolff-kishner, MeerweinPonndof-Verley and birch reductions.

(9) Elementary principles and applications of electronic, vibrational,
NMR, EPR and Mass Spectral techniques to simple structural
problems.

(10) Data Analysis : Types of errors, propagation of errors, accuracy
and precision, leastsquares analysis, average standard deviation.

CHEMICAL SCIENCE PAPER-III

1. Quantum Chemistry : Planck’s quantum theory, wave-particle
duality. Uncertainity Principle. operators and commutation relations : postulates of quantum mechanics and Schrodinger equation free particle. particle in a box, degeneracy, harmonic oscillator, rigid rotator and the hydrogen atom. Angular momentum, including spin; coupling of angular momenta including spinorbit coupling.
2. The variation method and perturbation theory. Application to
the helium atom; antisymmetry and exclusion Principle, Slater
determinantal wave functions. Terms symbols and spectroscopic
states.

3. Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Hydrogen molecule ion.
LCAO-MO and AB treatments of the hydrogen molecule; electron density. forces and their role in chemical binding. Hybridisation and valence Mos of H2O, Ng3 and CH4 Huckel plelection theory and its applications to ethelene, butadience
and benzene. Idea of self-consistent fields.
4. Group theoretical representations and quantum mechanics; vanishing of integrals, spectroscopic selection rules for vibrational,
electronic, vibronic and Raman spectroscopy. MO treatment of
large molecules with symmetry.
5. Spectroscopy : Theoretical treatment of rotational, vibrational
and electronic spectroscopy. Principles of magnetic resonance,
Mossbauer and photoelectron spectroscopy

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6. Thermodynamics : First law of thermodynamics, relation between Cp and Cv; enthalpies of physical and chemical changes;
temperature dependence of enthalpies. second law of thermo dynamics, entropy. Gibbs-Helmoholtz equation. Third law of thermodynamics and calculation of entropy.

7. Chemical Equilibrium : Free energy and entropy of mixing, pertial moler quantities, Gibbs-Duhem equation. Equilibrium constant. temperature-dependence of equilibrium constant, phase diagram of one and two-component systems, phase rule. 

8. Ideal and Non-ideal solutions. excess functions, activities, con- cept of hydration number : activities in electrolytic solutions; mean ionic activity coefficient; Debye-Huckel treatment of di- lute electrolyte solutions. 

9. Electrochemistry : Electrochemical cell reactions, Nernst equa- tion, Electrode Kinetics, electical double layer, electode/elec- trolyte interface, Batteries, primary & secondary Fuel cells, cor- rosion and corrosion prevention. 

10. Surface Phenomena : Surface tension,adscription on solids, elec- trical phenomena at interphaces, including electrokinetic, mi- celles and reverse micelles : solubilization, micro-emulsions. Application of photelectron spectroscopy. ESCA and Auger spec- troscopy to the study of surfaces.

11. Statistical Thermodynamics : Thermodynamic probability and entropy : Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics. Partition function: rotational translational, vibrational and electronic partition functions for diatomic molecules : cal- culations of thermodynamic functions and equilibrium constants. Theories of specific heat for solids. 12. Non-equlilibrium Thermodynamics : Postulates and methodolo- gies, linear laws, Gibbs equation, Onsager reciprocal theory. 13. Reaction Kinetics : Methods of determining rate laws. Mecha- nisms of photochemical, chain and oscillatory reactions. Colli- sion theory of reaction rates; steric factor, treatment of unimolecular reactions. Theory of absolute reaction rates, comparision of results with Eyring and Arrhenius equations. Ionic
reaction : salt effect. Homogeneous catalysis and MichaelisMenten kinetics; heterogeneous catalysis.

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14. Fast Reaction : Luminescence and Energy transfer processes.
Study of kinetics by stoppedflow technique, realization method,
flash photolysis and magnetic resonance method.
15. Macromolecules : Number-average and weight average molecular weights; determination of molecular weights. Kinetics of
polymerisation. Stereochemistry and mechanism of
polymerisation.
16. Solids : Dislocation in solids, schottky and Frenkel defects, Electrical properties; Insulators and semiconductors; superconductors; band theory of solids, Solid-state reactions.
17. Nuclear Chemistry : Radioactive decay and equilibrium. Nuclear
reactions; Q value, cross sections, types of reactions, Chemical
effects of nuclear transformations; fission and fusion, fission
products and fission yields. Radioactive techniques; tracer technique, neutron activation analysis, counting techniques such as
G.M. ionization and proportional counter.

18. Chemistry of Non-transition Elements : General discussion on
the properties of the nontransition elements; special features of
Individual elements; synthesis, properties and structure of their
halides and oxides, polymorphyism of carbon, phosphorus and
sulphur. Synthesis, properties and structure of boranes,
Carboranes, borazines, silicates carbides, sillicones,
phosphazenes, sulphurnitrogen compounds : peroxo compounds
of boron, carbon and sulphur; oxy acids of nitrogen, phosphorous, sulphur and halogens, interhalogens pseudohalides and
noble gas compounds.

19. Chemistry of Transition Elements : Coordination chemistry of
transition metalions; Stability constants of complexes and their determination; stabilization of unusual oxidation states. Stereochemistry of coordination compounds, Ligandfield theory, splitting of d-orbitals in low-symmetry environments. Jahn-Teller
effect; Interpretation electronic spectra including charge transfer spectra; spectrochemical series, nephelauxetic series Magnetism: Diapara ferro and antiferromagnetism, quenching of
orbital angular moment, spinorbit copling; inorganic reaction
mechanisms; substitution reactions, trans effect and electron
transfer reactions, photochemical reactions of chromium and ruthenium complexes. Fluxional molecules iso-and
heteropolyacids, metal clusters. Spin corssover in coordination
compounds.

20. Chemistry of Lanthanides and Actinides : Spectral and magnetic properties; Use of lanthanide compounds as shift reagents.
21. Organometallic chemistry of Transition Elements : Synthesis,
structure and bonding, organometallic reagents in organic synthesis and in homogeneous catalytic reactions (hydrogenation,
hydrodormaylation, isomerisation and polymerisation); Pi-acid
metal complexes, activation of small molecules by coordination.
22. Topics in Analytical Chemistry : Adsorption partition, exclusion electrochromatography. Solvent extraction and ion exchange
methods. Application of atomic and molecular absorption and
emission spectroscopy in quantitative analysis Light scattering
techniques including nephelometry and Raman spectroscopy.
Electronalytical techniques : voltammetry, cyclic, voltammetry,
polarography, amperometry, colometry and conductometry ionelective electrodes, annodic stripping voltammetry : TGA, DTA,
DSC and online analysers.
23. Bionorganic Chemistry : Metal ions in Biology, Molecular
machanism of ion transport across membranes; ionophores. Photosynthesis. PSL, PSH; nitrogen fixation, oxygen uptake pro-teins, cytochromes and ferrodoxins.

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24. Aromaticity : Huckel’s rule and concept of aromaticty (n)
annulenes and heteroannulenes, fullerenes (C60)
25. Stereochemistry and conformational Analysis : Nwere method
of asymmetric synthesis (including enzymatic and catalytic
nexus), enantio and diastereo selective synthesis. Effects of conformation on reactivity in acyclic compounds and cyclohexanes.
26. Selective Organic Name Reactions : Favorskil reaction; Stork
enamine reaction; Michael addition; Sharpless asymmetric
epoxidaton; Ene reaction, Barton reaction, Hofmann-LofflerFreytag reaction, Shapiro reaction, Baeyer-Villiger reaction,
Chichibabin reaction.
27. Mechanisms of Organic Reaction : Labelling and Kinetio isotope effects, Hamett equation, (sigma-rho) relationship, non-classical carbonium ions, neighbouring group participation.
28. Pericyclic Reactions : Selection rules and stereochemistry of
electrocyclic reactions, cycloaddition and sigmatropic shifts,
Sommelet, Hauser, Cope and Claisen rearrangements.
29. Heterocyclic Chemistry : Synthesis and reactivity of furan
thiophene, pyrrole, pyridine, quinoline, isoquinoline and indole;
Skraup synthesis, fischer indole synthesis.
30. Reagents in Organic Synthesis : Use of the following reagents
in organic synthesis and functional group transformations; Complex metal hybrides, Gilmen’s reagent, lithium dimethylcuprate,
lithium disopropylamide (LDS\A) dicyclohexyicarbodimide,
1,3-dithiane (reactivity umpolung), trimethylisilyl iodide, tri-nbutyltin hybride, Woodward and prevost hydroxylation, osmium
tetroxide, DDZ, selenium dioxide, phase transfer catalysis, crown
ethers and Merrifield resin, Peterson’s synthesis, Wilkinsons
catalyst, Baker yeast.

31. Chemistry of Natural products : Famillarity with methods of
structure elucidation and biosynthesis of alkaloids, terponoids,
steroids, carbohydrates and protains.
32. Bioorganic Chemistry : Elementary structure and function of
biopolymers such as proteins and nucleic acids.
33. Photochemistry : Cis-trans isomeriation, Paterno-Buchi reaction,
Norrish Type I and II reactions, photoreduction of ketones, dipin
ethane rearrangement, photochemistry of areanes.
34. Spectroscopy : Applications of mass, UV-VIS, IR and NMR
spectroscopy for structural elucidation of compound.

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