Unit 5 — Interdisciplinary Topics
Unit 5 of the CSIR-UGC NET Chemical Sciences syllabus: Interdisciplinary Topics. Major areas covered: Chemistry in Nanoscience & Technology; Catalysis & Green Chemistry; Medicinal Chemistry; Supramolecular Chemistry; Environmental Chemistry. Suggested weightage: 20%. Topics include: Top-down/bottom-up nanofabrication, quantum confinement, SAM, principles of green chemistry (12 principles), pharmacophore, prodrug, host-guest chemistry, crown ethers, cyclodextrins, atmospheric ozone chemistry, photochemical smog.
Chapters
- Nanoscience
- Green Chemistry
- Catalysis
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Supramolecular Chemistry
- Environmental Chemistry
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Unit 4 — Organic Chemistry
Unit 4 of the CSIR-UGC NET Chemical Sciences syllabus: Organic Chemistry. Major areas covered: IUPAC Nomenclature; Stereochemistry (R/S, E/Z, configurational/conformational); Aromaticity; Reactive Intermediates; Substitution, Addition, Elimination Reactions; Named Reactions; Functional-Group Interconversions; Retrosynthesis; Asymmetric Synthesis; Pericyclic Reactions; Photochemistry; Heterocycles; Natural Products; Spectroscopic Structure Determination. Suggested weightage: 20%. Topics include: CIP rules, Hückel 4n+2, $S_N1/S_N2$, $E1/E2$, Diels-Alder, Wittig, Grignard, Robinson annulation, Sharpless epoxidation, Woodward-Hoffmann, $^1$H NMR multiplicity, retrosynthetic disconnection.
Chapters
- Nomenclature
- Stereochemistry
- Aromaticity
- Reactive Intermediates
- Reaction Mechanisms
- Named Reactions
- Rearrangements
- Synthesis
- Asymmetric Synthesis
- Resolution
- Pericyclic
- Heterocycles
- Natural Products
- Structure Determination
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Unit 3 — Physical Chemistry — Electrochemistry, Kinetics, Surfaces, Solid State, Polymers, Data Analysis
Unit 3 of the CSIR-UGC NET Chemical Sciences syllabus: Physical Chemistry — Electrochemistry, Kinetics, Surfaces, Solid State, Polymers, Data Analysis. Major areas covered: Nernst Equation; Galvanic Cells; Debye-Hückel; Conductance & Kohlrausch's Law; Conductometric/Potentiometric Titrations; Chemical Kinetics; Steady State; Collision & TST; Unimolecular Reactions; Enzyme Kinetics; Homogeneous Catalysis; Photochemistry; Colloids & Surfaces; Adsorption Isotherms; Heterogeneous Catalysis; Solid State (Bragg, Band); Polymer Kinetics; Data Analysis (Errors, Regression). Suggested weightage: 20%. Topics include: Standard hydrogen electrode, $\Lambda_m^\circ$, activity coefficients, Arrhenius, Eyring, Michaelis-Menten, Lineweaver-Burk, Langmuir/Freundlich/BET, $n\lambda=2d\sin\theta$, $M_n$ vs $M_w$, $\sigma$ vs SE.
Chapters
- Electrochemistry
- Chemical Kinetics
- Enzyme Kinetics
- Catalysis
- Photochemistry
- Surfaces & Colloids
- Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Colloids
- Solid State
- Polymers
- Data Analysis
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Unit 2 — Physical Chemistry — Quantum Mechanics, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics
Unit 2 of the CSIR-UGC NET Chemical Sciences syllabus: Physical Chemistry — Quantum Mechanics, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics. Major areas covered: Quantum Postulates; Operator Algebra; Particle-in-a-Box; Harmonic Oscillator; Hydrogen Atom; Variational & Perturbation Methods; Atomic Term Symbols; MO/VB Theory; Hückel MO; Group Theory & Character Tables; Molecular Spectroscopy (Rotational/Vibrational/Electronic/Raman/NMR); Chemical Thermodynamics; Maxwell Relations; Statistical Thermodynamics. Suggested weightage: 20%. Topics include: Ladder operators, Slater determinants, $C_{2v}/C_{3v}/D_{2h}$ character tables, mutual exclusion principle, anharmonicity, Beer-Lambert, $J=B(J+1)$, Boltzmann distribution, Gibbs energy, Clausius-Clapeyron.
Chapters
- Quantum Mechanics
- Approximate Methods
- Atomic Structure
- Many-Electron Atoms
- Chemical Bonding
- Hückel Theory
- Group Theory
- Molecular Spectroscopy
- Thermodynamics
- Statistical Thermodynamics
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Unit 1 — Inorganic Chemistry
Unit 1 of the CSIR-UGC NET Chemical Sciences syllabus: Inorganic Chemistry. Major areas covered: Chemical Periodicity; VSEPR & Bonding; Acid-Base & HSAB; Non-aqueous Solvents; Main Group Elements; Transition Metals & Coordination Compounds; Inner Transition; Organometallics; Cages & Clusters; Analytical Methods; Bioinorganic Chemistry; Spectroscopic Characterisation; Nuclear Chemistry. Suggested weightage: 20%. Topics include: Slater's rules, Hund's rule, VSEPR shapes, Pearson HSAB, Frost diagrams, CFT splitting (Oh, Td), spectrochemical series, Tanabe-Sugano, EAN/18-electron rule, hapticity, photosystems, $^{57}$Fe Mössbauer.
Chapters
- Periodicity
- Bonding
- Acid-Base
- Non-aqueous Solvents
- Main Group
- Coordination Chemistry
- CFT
- Electronic Spectra
- Magnetic Properties
- Reaction Mechanisms
- Lanthanides
- Actinides
- Organometallics
- Cages & Clusters
- Analytical
- Bioinorganic
- Characterisation
- Nuclear Chemistry
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