Syllabus
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Course Code: CH-502 Course Name: (B) Applied chemistry |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Bio inorganic chemistry Metal ions present in biological system, classification on the basis of action (essential, non essential, trace, toxic), Metalloporphyrins with special reference to haemoglobin and myoglobin. Biological role of Na+, K+, Ca+2, Mg+2, Fe+2 ions, Cooperative effect, Bohr effect. Acids and Bases Arrhenius, Bronsted-lowry, Lux-flood, solvent system and Lewis concept of acids and bases, relative strength of acids and bases, levelling solvents, hard and soft acids and bases(HSAB), Applications of HSAB principle. |
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| 2 | Chemical Bonding Chemical bonding: Covalent bonding, valence bond and molecular orbital approaches, LCAO-MO treatment of H2+. Bonding and antibonding orbitals. Qualitative extension to H2. Comparison of LCAO-MO and VB treatments of H2 (only wavefunctions, detailed solution not required) and their limitations. Spectroscopy-II Electronic spectroscopy: Franck-Condon principle, electronic transitions, singlet and triplet states, fluorescence and phosphorescence, dissociation and predissociation,calculation of electronic transitions of polyenes using free electron model. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy: Principles of NMR spectroscopy,Larmor precession, chemical shift and low resolution spectra, different scales, spin-spin coupling and high resolution spectra, interpretation of PMR spectra of organic molecules. Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) spectroscopy: Its principle, hyperfine structure, ESR of simple radicals. |
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