Syllabus
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Course Code: EI-BS-102 Course Name: Chemistry |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Atomic and molecular structure: Schrodinger equation. Particle in a one-dimensional box solution and its applications for molecules. Molecular orbital theory and its applications to the formation of homonuclear (H2, N2) and heteronuclear diatomic molecules (NO, CO, CN) Energy level diagrams of diatomics. Pi (p)-molecular orbitals of butadiene and benzene and aromaticity. Crystal field theory and the energy level diagrams for [Ni(CO)4], [Co(NH3)6], [PtCl2(NH3)2] and magnetic properties of transition metal complexes and their magnetic properties. | |
| 2 | Spectroscopic techniques and applications: Principles of spectroscopy and selection rules. Electronic spectroscopy. Fluorescence spectroscopy and its applications in medicine. Vibrational and rotational spectroscopy of diatomic molecules. Applications. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), surface characterization with Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS). | |
| 3 | Electrochemistry: Conductance of electrolytic solutions, Transference number and its determination by Hittorf method and Moving boundary method, Kohlrausch's law of independent migration of ions, Interionic attraction theory, activity and activity coefficients of strong electrolytes. Use of free energy in chemical equilibria: Thermodynamic functions: Internal energy, enthalpy, entropy and free energy. Estimations of entropy and free energies. Free energy and EMF. Cell potentials, the Nernst equation and applications. pH, Acid-base, oxidation-reduction and solubility equilibria. |
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| 4 | Periodic properties: Effective nuclear charge, penetration of orbitals, variations of s, p, d and f orbital energies of atoms in the periodic table, electronic configurations, atomic and ionic sizes, ionization energies, electron affinity and electronegativity, polarizability, oxidation states, coordination numbers and geometries, hard soft acids and bases, molecular geometries of molecules: H2O, NH3, CCl4, PCl5, SF6 and Pt(NH3)2Cl2. Stereochemistry: Representations of 3-dimensional structures, structural isomers and stereoisomers, configurations and symmetry and chirality, enantiomers, diastereomers, optical activity, absolute configurations and conformational analysis. |
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