OJEE Syllabus Lateral Entry BSc CHEMISTRY Paper-II

OJEE Syllabus Lateral Entry Stream BSc CHEMISTRY Paper-II 
B.Sc PAPER-II (BSc CHEMISTRY)

Thermodynamics : Definition of thermodynamic terms, systems, surroundings etc. Types of systems, intensive and extensive properties, state and path functions and their differentials, thermodynamic processes, concept of heat and work. First law of thermodynamics, statement, definition of internal energy, enthalpy, heat capacity, heat capacity at constant volume, pressure and their relation, Joule’s law, Joule-Thomson coefficient and inversion temperature, calculation of w, q, u, H, for the expansion of ideal gases under isothermal and adiabatic conditions for reversible processes.

Thermochemistry : standard state, standard enthalpy of formation, Hess’s law of heat of summation and its application, heat of reaction at constant pressure, volume, enthalpy of neutralization, bond dissociation energy and its calculation from thermochemical data, temperature dependence of enthalpy. Kirchoff’s equation.

Chemical equilibrium : equilibrium constant and free energy. Derivation of law of mass action. Le chaterlier’s principle.

Phase equilibrium: Statement and meaning of the terms - Phase, component and degree of freedom, derivation of Gibbs phase rule, phase equilibrium of one component system - water and sulphur system.

Electrochemistry-I : Electrical transport-conduction in metals and in electrolyte solution, specific conductance and equivalent conductance, measurement of equivalent conductance, variation of equivalent and specific conductance with dilution, migration of ions and Kohlrausch law, Arrhenius theory of electrolytic dissociation and its limitations, weak and strong electrolytes, Ostawald’s dilution law, its uses and limitations. Application of conductivity measurements, determination of degree of dissociation, determination of Ka of acids, Determination of solubility product of a sparingly soluble salt, conductometric titration.

Electrochemistry-II : Types of reversible electrodes- gas metal ion, meta-metal ion, metal-insoluble salt-anion and redox electrodes. Electrode reactions, Nernst equation, derivation of cell EMF and single electrode potential, standard hydrogen electrodes-reference electrodes, standard electrode potentials, sign conventions, electrochemical series and its significant, EMF of a cell and its measurements. Computation of cell EMF, concentration of cell with and without transport, liquid junction potential, definition of pH, and Pka, determination of pH using hydrogen electrode, buffers-mechanism of buffer action, Henderson & Hessel baltch equation. Hydrolysis of salts.

Atomic Structure : Idea to de Broglie matter waves, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, atomic orbitals, Schrodinger wave equation (Mathematical derivations excluded) significance of and 2, quantum numbers, shapes of s,p,d orbitals. Aufbau and Pauli exclusion principles, Hund’s multiplicity rule. Electronic configurations of the elements, effective nuclear charge.

Periodic Properties : Atomic and ionic radii, ionization energy, electronegative-definition, methods of determination or evaluation, trends in periodic table and applications in predicting and explaining the chemical behaviour.

Chemical Bonding : Covalent Bond - valence bond theory and its limitations, directional characteristics of covalent bond, various types of hybridization and shapes of simple inorganic molecules and ions. Valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory to NH3 , H3O+, SF4, CIF3, ICl2 and H2O. MO theory, homonuclear and heteronuclear (CO and NO) diatomic molecules.

s-Block Elements : Comparative study, diagonal relationships, salient features of hydrides, solvation and complexation tendencies including their function in biosystems,

p-Block Elements : Comparative study (including diagonal relationship) of groups 13-17 elements, compounds like hydrides, oxides, oxyacids and halides of groups 13-16, hydrides of boron-diborane, borazine, borohydrides, fullerenes, carbides, fluorocarbons, silicates (structural principle), basic properties of halogens, interhalogen compounds.

Chemistry of Noble Gases : Chemical properties of the noble gases, chemistry of xenon, structure and bonding in xenon compounds.

Chemistry of Elements of First Transition series

Characteristic properties of d-block elements.

Properties of the elements of the first transition series, their binary compounds and complexes illustrating relative stability of their oxidation states, coordination number and geometry. Coordination Compounds : Werner’s coordination theory and its experimental verification, effective atomic number concept, chelates, nomenclature of coordination compounds, isomerism in coordination compounds (4 and 6 only) valence bond theory of transition metal complexes.

Acids and Bases : Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, Lewis concepts of acids and bases.

Structure, bonding and mechanism of Organic reactions:

Inductive effect, resonance, steric effect, influence of these effects on acidity, basicity and dipolemoments, reactive intermediate- carbocations, carbanions, free-radicals and carbenes; formation, stability and structure, types and mechanism of organic reactions- SN1 , SN2, SE1, SE2 , E1, E2, AdE, AdN,

Stereochemistry of Organic compounds: Concept of isomerism, types of isomerism, optical isomerism, elements of symmetry, molecular chirality, enantiomers, stereogenic center, optical activity, properties of enantiomers, chiral and achiral molecules with two stereogenic centers, diastereomers, threo-erythro diastereomers, meso compounds, relative and absolute configuration, sequence rules, D-L, R-S, systems of nomenclature, geometric isomerism, determination of configuration of geometric isomers, E-Z system of nomenclature, conformational isomerism, conformational analysis of ethane and n-butane, conformations of cyclohexanes, axial and equatorial bonds, conformation of monosubstituted cyclohexane derivatives, Newman projection, Sawhorse, Fischer and Flyingwedge formulae, difference between conformation and configurations.