Chemical Sciences
Chemical Sciences
Chemical Sciences
Paper – II
Paper II will cover 180 Objective Type Questions (Multiple Choice, Matching
type, True/False, Assertion – Reasoning type) carrying 180 marks of 3 hours
duration. Each question carries 1 mark. There will be negative marks for
wrong answers. Each wrong answer will be penalized @ 1/3rd of the marks
prescribed for the question.
CHEMICAL SCIENCES
Inorganic Chemistry
1. Chemical periodicity
2. Structure and bonding in homo- and heteronuclear molecules, including shapes of molecules
(VSEPR Theory).
3. Concepts of acids and bases, Hard-Soft acid base concept, Non-aqueous solvents.
4. Main group elements and their compounds: Allotropy, synthesis, structure and bonding,
industrial importance of the compounds.
5. Transition elements and coordination compounds: structure, bonding theories, spectral and
magnetic properties, reaction mechanisms.
6. Inner transition elements: spectral and magnetic properties, redox chemistry, analytical
applications.
7. Organometallic compounds: synthesis, bonding and structure, and reactivity.
Organometallics in homogeneous catalysis.
8. Cages and metal clusters.
9. Analytical chemistry- separation, spectroscopic, electro- and thermoanalytical methods.
10. Bioinorganic chemistry: photosystems, porphyrins, metalloenzymes, oxygen transport,
electron- transfer reactions; nitrogen fixation, metal complexes in medicine.
11. Characterisation of inorganic compounds by IR, Raman, NMR, EPR, Mössbauer, UV-vis, NQR,
MS, electron spectroscopy and microscopic techniques.
12. Nuclear chemistry: nuclear reactions, fission and fusion, radio-analytical techniques and
activation analysis.
Physical Chemistry:
Organic Chemistry
Interdisciplinary topics
3. Medicinal chemistry.
4. Supramolecular chemistry.
5. Environmental chemistry