Syllabus
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Course Code: CHEM 404 Course Name: Inorganic Chemistry Special-VI |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Photochemistry Absorption, excitation, photochemical laws, quantum yield, electronically excited states- life times-measurements of the times. Energy dissipation by radiative and non radiative processes, bimolecular quenching, absorption spectra, Franck condon principle, photochemical kinetics, photochemical stages-primary and secondary. |
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| 2 | Excited States of Metal Complexes Electronically excited states of metal complexes: charge-transfer spectra, charge transfer transition, photosubstitution reactions, photorearrangements, photoisomerisation, photoredox processes conditions of excited states to be useful redox reactant Illustration of some reducing and oxidising character of Ru(2+) tris-bipyramidal complex. Transformation of chemical energy into light energy. Metal Complex Sensitizers Metal complex sensitizer, photosensitised reactions in metal complexes, water photolysis, nitrogen fixation and carbon dioxide reduction. |
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| 3 | Solid State-I
Crystalline and non-crystalline materials, glass transition temperature Tg and melting temperature Tm, classes of compounds of the type A2 B3 and AB3 Glass-ceramics, structures of polymers, glass and ceramics inorganic chains and rings. Alloys-interstitial, substitutional and superconducting, Meissner effect, Hume-Rothery rules. |
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| 4 | Solid State-II Perfect and imperfect crystals, intrinsic and extrinsic defects, point defects, line and plane defects, vacancies- schottky defects and Frankel defects, colour centers, non-stiochiometry and defects. Metals, insulators and semiconductors, electronic structure of solids- band theory, band structure of metals, insulators and semiconductors. Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, doping semiconductors, p-n junctions, superconductors, Optical and Magnetic properties. |
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