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Chemistry Polytechnic TRB

Polytechnic TRB Chemistry Syllabus 2026

UNIT 1

Analytical Chemistry: Classification of analytical Methods – classical and  instrumental. Errors and Evaluation: Definition of terms in mean and median –  Types of errors, propagation of errors, accuracy and precision, least squares  analysis, average standard deviation.  

Analytical Techniques: Principle and applications of adsorption, partition, ion  exchange and solvent extraction – chromatographic methods – TLC HPLC and GC.  Applications of atomic, molecular and emission spectroscopy in quantitative  analysis – Eleetroanalytical techniques – cyclic and stripping voltametry,  polarography, TGA, DTA, and DSC. Light scattering techniques including  nepelometry and Raman spectroscopy.  

UNIT 2

Structure and Bonding: Atomic orbitals – Types of chemical Bonds (weak and  strong) Intermolecular forces. Theories of bonding (VB and MO). Concept of  hybridization – shapes of polyatomic molecules – VSEPR theory – Structure of simple  ionic and covalent compounds – lattice energy – crystal defects – insulators and  semiconductors, superconductors, Band theory of solids – Solid state reactions.  

Acids and Bases: Bronsted and Lewis acids and bases, pH and pKa, acid-base  concept in non aqueous media, HSAB concept, Buffer solution.  Redox Reactions: Oxidation numbers; Redox potential, electrochemical series,  Redox indicators, Chemical principles involved in-extractions and purification of  Iron, Copper, Lead, Zinc and Aluminium.  

UNIT 3

Nuclear Chemistry: Radioactive decay and equilibrium, Nuclear reactions: Q valve,  cross sections, types of reactions, nuclear transmutations, fission and fusion  Radioactive techniques – tracer technique, neutron activation analysis. G.M,  ionization and proportional counters. Radiolysis of water – G Value, dosimeters  and Hydrated electron.  

Chemistry of Non-transition elements – General properties and structure of their  halides and oxides. Polymorphism carbon, phosphorus and sulphur. Synthesis,  properties and structure of boranes, carboranes and metallo carboranes – Wade’s  rule – preparation, properties and structure of borazines & phosphazenes.  Sulphur – nitrogen compounds – oxides and oxy acids of nitrogen, phosphorous,  sulphur and halogens, interhalogen and noble gas compounds. Isopoly and  heteropoly acids and salts. 

UNIT 4

Chemistry of Transition elements: Co-ordination Chemistry of transition metal  ions – Werner’s theory – nomenclature and stereo chemistry of co-ordination  compounds – stability constants and their determinations – CFT, splitting of d  orbitals, CFSE, Jahn Teller effect, charge transfer spectra – spectrochemicai series

Term states for dn ions, Orgel and Tanable – sugano diagram, calculation of Dq, B  and β parameters.

Inorganic reaction mechanism: Inert and labile complexes – substitution  reactions – transeffect – redox and electron transfer reactions. Photochemistry of  chromium, ruthenium and cobalt complexes. Chemistry of lanthanides and  actinides. Metal carbonyls and metal clusters, Organometallic reagents in  organic synthesis – Cayatylic reactions – (hydrogeneation, hydroformylation,  isomerization and polymerization) pi-acid metal complexes.  

Bioinorganic Chemistry: Metal ions in Biology, Photosynthesis, PSL, PSH,  Nitrogen fixation, Oxygen transport and storage, Hemeproteins haemoglobin,  cytochrome and ferrodoxins.  

Spectroscopy: Applications of nmr, nqr and esr to inorganic compounds.  

UNIT 5

Chirality. Differentiation of assymmetric and dyssymmetric molecules. Identification  of prochiral carbons enantio and diastereoptropic hydrogens in a molecule.  Stereochemistry of disubstituted four, five and six membered saturated alicyclic  molecules. Conformational analysis of mono and disubstituted cyclohexanes and  piperidines. E-Z nomenclature for isomeric olefins. Stereochemistry of aliphatic  nucleophilic substitutions in acyclic and bicyclic systems. Stereochemistry (specific  or selective) of dihydroxylations, halogen addition, hydroborations and Diels Alder  reaction of suitably substituted olefinic double bonds. Steraspecfic E-2 eliminations  in erythro – threo isomers.Reduction of ring substituted cyclohexanones to  cyclohexanols. 

UNIT 6

Mechanism of SN-1, reactions in substrates with various types of NGP. Methods of  generation and mechanisms of reactions proceeding via carbenes and nitrenes.

Concreted reactions: Mechanism of electrocyclic and chelotropic reactions and  sigmatropic rearrangements. 

Photochemical reactions: Mechanisms of Norrish – I  and II types, Paterno Buchi and Barton. reactions, di-β methane rearrangements. 

Rearrangements: Mechanisms of rearrangements proceedings via carbonium ions  (Wagner Meerwin pinacol – pinacolone and Demjanov type) and electrophilic  heteroatoms (Baeyer Villiger and Curtius type).  

Mechanism of nucleophilic substitution in activated aryl halides. Regiochemistry of  aryne generation and subsequent [additions of 0, m and p-substituted aryl  halides.  

UNIT 7

Organic synthesis: Synthesis and any di and trisubstituted benzene derivatives  from any mono substituted benzene or benzene itself. Synthesis of simple  compounds using C-C bond forming reactions involving Wittig, Wittig Honner,  Gilmann Reagents, organolithiums, Grignards, Robinson annulation, Dickmann  condensation, Knovenagel, Mannisch. Stork enamine, and Vilsmeyer reactions  and umplolung. (1,3-dithane). Synthetic transformations involving Swern  oxidation, Birch Wolf Kishner and metal hydride reductions, catalytic  hydrogenations and reagents like tributyltin hydride, trimethylsilyl iodide, LDA,  n-BuLi, Raney nickel, NBS Chromium reagents, DCC and Pd. Application of  protective group concept (aldelydes,ketones and carboxylic acids) during  multistep synthesis. Spectral identification of organic intermediates by IR  (functional group) PMR and CMR and Mass. spectra. (simple molecules only). 

UNIT 8

Numbering and synthesis of un substituted (parent) and alkyl, aryl or acyl  (wherever methods are available) substituted furans, pyrroles, thiophene,  quionline, iso quinoline and indoles. Reactivity of these compounds towards  electrophiles or nucleophiles. A study of other non benzenoid aromatics  (ferrocences, azulenes, annulenes and fulvenes).

UNIT 9

Quantum Chemistry: Plancks’ quantum theory, Compton effect, wave particle  duality, uncertainty principle, operators: linear and Hermitian, Schrodinger wave  equation postulates of quantum mechanics. Application of Schrodinger equation to  particle in a box, harmoni, oscillator, rigid rotator and hydrogen atom.

Angular momentum: commutation relation, spin orbit interaction, Approximation methods:  variation theorem, application of variation method to harmonic oscillator, hydrogen  and helium atoms. Perturbation theory – application to helium atom. Born –  Oppenheimer, approximations: LCAO – MO and VB treatments of H2 molecule.  Huckel theory: application to ethylene, butadiene and benzene. Calculation of  electron density and bond order. Semi empirical methods: Slater orbital and HF SCF methods.  

Macromolecules: Techniques, mechanism and kinetics of polymerisation, Kinetics  of copolymerisation – Molecular weights and their determination. Properties of  polymers: glass transition temp. crystallinity of polymers – polymer processing  techniques.  

UNIT 10

Chemical-Kinetics: Theories of reaction rate, collision theory, ARRT, comparison potential energy surfaces – treatment of unimolecular reactions.  Complex reactions: simultaneous, parallel and consecutive reactions.  Chainreactions: H2_Cl2, H2_Br2 branching reaction – explosion limit. Reactins in  solution: factors determining reaction rate in solution, dielectric constant and ionic  strength, Kinetic isotopic effect, Linear free energy relations. Hammett and Taft  equations. Homogenous Catalysis: acid base catalysis, enzyme catalysis.  Heterogeneous catalysis: Adsorption, Langmuir and BET adsorption isotherms –  mechanism of heterogeneous catalysis.  

Thermodynamics: First and second Laws of thermodynamics – relation between Cand Cv in terms of coefficients of expansion and compressibility. Maxwell relations –  partial molar properties – Glibbs’ Duhem equation – variation of chemical potential  with temperature and pressure – fugacity – Third law and calculation of entropy. 

Statistical thermodynamics: Maxwell Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac  distribution- Partition function, translational, rotational and vibrational partition  function, calculation of thermodynamic functions, equilibrium constant and heat  capacity from partition functions. Einstein and Debye theories of heat capacity of solids, concept of negative absolute temperature. 

Non equilibrium, thermodynamics: Phenomenological laws – Onsagers’ reciprocity  relation – application to Diffusion potential, electrokinetic phenomena – entropy  production.  

UNIT 11

Group theory: Symmetry elements and symmetry operations, point groups,  reducible and irreducible representations – Direct product representation.  Orthogonality theorem and its consequences – construction of Character Tale (C2V,  C3v and C2h) Applications: Selection rules for IR, Raman and electronic spectra,  Determining Symmetries of normal vibrational modes of non linear molecules,  construction of hybrid orbitals, application to electronic spectra of ethylene and  formaldehyde.  

Spectroscopy: Rotational Spectra of rigid and non-rigid diatomic rotors, simple  polyatomic molecules.  

Vibrational Spectra: harmonic and anharmonic oscillator, overtones, Fermi  resonance -Raman Spectra. Vibration – rotation Spectra – PQR branches, parallel  and perpendicular vibrations.  

Electronic Spectroscopy: Spectra of diatomic ·molecules – Frank condon principle  – Morse function, polyatomic molecules, types of transition, solvent effects.  Spin resonance Spectroscopy: NMR: Origin of nmr signal, Chemical Shift, factors  affecting chemical shift and spin spin coupling. NMR Spectra of simple AX and  ABX type molecules. 13C and 19F nmr.  

ESR: Origin, g-factor, hyperfine structure – Mc Connel equations, Theory and  simple Applications of Mossbauer and Photoelectron Spectroscopy.  

UNIT-12

Electrochemistry: Ion-solvent interaction – Born treatment – solvation number and  its determination Ion – ion interaction: activity co-efficient, Debye-Huckel equation  for activity coefficient – limitations and extension to concentrated solutions. Ion  transport: Debye Huckel Orsager equation for conductance – experimental validity.  Ion association: its effect on conductance and activity coefficient.  

Electrode-electrolyte interface: Structure of double layer – electrode kinetics overvoltage. Butler – Volmer equation for one electron transfer.

Corrosion and  Stability of metals: construction and use of Pourbaix and Evans’ diagram –  Prevention of corrosion, Primary and Secondary cells- Various fuel cells.

Photochemistry: Photo physical processes – Theory of radiation less transition – fluorescence, phosphorescence, fluorescence quenching – Stem-Volmer equation,  excimer, exciplexes, Quantum yield measurement, Kinetics of Photochemical  reactions Greenhouse effect, Ozone depletion, Acid rain, Solid waste management. 

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