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IIT JEE Chemistry Syllabus : Physical Chemistry
General Topics:
Concept of atoms and molecules; Dalton's atomic theory; Mole concept;
Chemical formulae; Balanced chemical equations; Calculations (based on
mole concept) involving common oxidation-reduction, neutralisation, and
displacement reactions; Concentration in terms of mole fraction,
molarity, molality and normality.
Gaseous and Liquid States:
Absolute scale of temperature, ideal gas equation; Deviation from
ideality, van der Waals equation; Kinetic theory of gases, average, root
mean square and most probable velocities and their relation with
temperature; Law of partial pressures; Vapour pressure; Diffusion of
gases.
Atomic Structure and Chemical Bonding: Bohr
model, spectrum of hydrogen atom, quantum numbers; Wave-particle
duality, de Broglie hypothesis; Uncertainty principle; Qualitative
quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen atom, shapes of s, p and d
orbitals; Electronic configurations of elements (up to atomic number
36); Aufbau principle; Pauli's exclusion principle and Hund's rule;
Orbital overlap and covalent bond; Hybridisation involving s, p and d
orbitals only; Orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species;
Hydrogen bond; Polarity in molecules, dipole moment (qualitative
aspects only); VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, angular,
triangular, square planar, pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal
bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).
Energetics: First law of
thermodynamics; Internal energy, work and heat, pressure-volume work;
Enthalpy, Hess's law; Heat of reaction, fusion and vapourization; Second
law of thermodynamics; Entropy; Free energy; Criterion of spontaneity.
Chemical Equilibrium: Law of mass
action; Equilibrium constant, Le Chatelier's principle (effect of
concentration, temperature and pressure); Significance of ?G and ?Gº in
chemical equilibrium; Solubility product, common ion effect, pH and
buffer solutions; Acids and bases (Bronsted and Lewis concepts);
Hydrolysis of salts.
Electrochemistry: Electrochemical
cells and cell reactions; Standard electrode potentials; Nernst
equation and its relation to delG; Electrochemical series, emf of
galvanic cells; Faraday's laws of electrolysis; Electrolytic
conductance, specific, equivalent and molar conductivity, Kohlrausch's
law; Concentration cells.
Chemical Kinetics: Rates of
chemical reactions; Order of reactions; Rate constant; First order
reactions; Temperature dependence of rate constant (Arrhenius equation).
Solid State: Classification of
solids, crystalline state, seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, b,
c, alpha, beta, gamma), close packed structure of solids (cubic),
packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices; Nearest neighbours, ionic radii,
simple ionic compounds, point defects.
Solutions: Raoult's law;
Molecular weight determination from lowering of vapour pressure,
elevation of boiling point and depression of freezing point.
Surface Chemistry: Elementary
concepts of adsorption (excluding adsorption isotherms); Colloids:
types, methods of preparation and general properties; Elementary ideas
of emulsions, surfactants and micelles (only definitions and examples).
Nuclear Chemistry: Radioactivity:
isotopes and isobars; Properties of alpha, beta and gamma rays;
Kinetics of radioactive decay (decay series excluded), carbon dating;
Stability of nuclei with respect to proton-neutron ratio; Brief
discussion on fission and fusion reactions.
IIT JEE Chemistry Syllabus : Inorganic Chemistry
Isolation/preparation and properties of the following non-metals:
Boron, silicon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulphur and halogens;
Properties of allotropes of carbon (only diamond and graphite),
phosphorus and sulphur.
Preparation and properties of the following compounds: Oxides,
peroxides, hydroxides, carbonates, bicarbonates, chlorides and
sulphates of sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium; Boron: diborane,
boric acid and borax; Aluminium: alumina, aluminium chloride and alums;
Carbon: oxides and oxyacid (carbonic acid); Silicon: silicones,
silicates and silicon carbide; Nitrogen: oxides, oxyacids and ammonia;
Phosphorus: oxides, oxyacids (phosphorus acid, phosphoric acid) and
phosphine; Oxygen: ozone and hydrogen peroxide; Sulphur: hydrogen
sulphide, oxides, sulphurous acid, sulphuric acid and sodium
thiosulphate; Halogens: hydrohalic acids, oxides and oxyacids of
chlorine, bleaching powder; Xenon fluorides.
Transition Elements (3d series): Definition,
general characteristics, oxidation states and their stabilities, colour
(excluding the details of electronic transitions) and calculation of
spin-only magnetic moment; Coordination compounds: nomenclature of
mononuclear coordination compounds, cis-trans and ionisation isomerisms,
hybridization and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds
(linear, tetrahedral, square planar and octahedral).
Preparation and properties of the following compounds: Oxides and chlorides of tin and lead; Oxides, chlorides and sulphates of Fe2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+; Potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate, silver oxide, silver nitrate, silver thiosulphate.
Ores and Minerals: Commonly occurring ores and minerals of iron, copper, tin, lead, magnesium, aluminium, zinc and silver.
Extractive Metallurgy:
Chemical principles and reactions only (industrial details excluded);
Carbon reduction method (iron and tin); Self reduction method (copper
and lead); Electrolytic reduction method (magnesium and aluminium);
Cyanide process (silver and gold).
Principles of qualitative analysis: Groups I to V (only Ag+, Hg2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, Bi3+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Al3+, Ca2+, Ba2+, Zn2+, Mn2+ and Mg2+); Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride), sulphate and sulphide.
IIT JEE Chemistry Syllabus : Organic Chemistry
Concepts: Hybridisation
of carbon; Sigma and pi-bonds; Shapes of simple organic molecules;
Structural and geometrical isomerism; Optical isomerism of compounds
containing up to two asymmetric centres, (R,S and E,Z nomenclature
excluded); IUPAC nomenclature of simple organic compounds (only
hydrocarbons, mono-functional and bi-functional compounds);
Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections); Resonance and
hyperconjugation; Keto-enol tautomerism; Determination of empirical and
molecular formulae of simple compounds (only combustion method);
Hydrogen bonds: definition and their effects on physical properties of
alcohols and carboxylic acids; Inductive and resonance effects on
acidity and basicity of organic acids and bases; Polarity and inductive
effects in alkyl halides; Reactive intermediates produced during
homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage; Formation, structure and
stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.
Preparation, properties and reactions of alkanes:
Homologous series, physical properties of alkanes (melting points,
boiling points and density); Combustion and halogenation of alkanes;
Preparation of alkanes by Wurtz reaction and decarboxylation reactions.
Preparation, properties and reactions of alkenes and alkynes: Physical
properties of alkenes and alkynes (boiling points, density and dipole
moments); Acidity of alkynes; Acid catalysed hydration of alkenes and
alkynes (excluding the stereochemistry of addition and elimination);
Reactions of alkenes with KMnO4 and ozone; Reduction of alkenes and
alkynes; Preparation of alkenes and alkynes by elimination reactions;
Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X2, HX, HOX (X=halogen)
and H2O; Addition reactions of alkynes; Metal acetylides.
Reactions of Benzene: Structure
and aromaticity; Electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation,
nitration, sulphonation, Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation; Effect
of o-, m- and p-directing groups in monosubstituted benzenes.
Phenols:
Acidity, electrophilic substitution reactions (halogenation, nitration
and sulphonation); Reimer-Tieman reaction, Kolbe reaction.
Characteristic reactions of the following (including those mentioned above): Alkyl
halides: rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation, Grignard
reactions, nucleophilic substitution reactions; Alcohols:
esterification, dehydration and oxidation, reaction with sodium,
phosphorus halides, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, conversion of
alcohols into aldehydes and ketones; Ethers:Preparation by Williamson’s
Synthesis; Aldehydes and Ketones: oxidation, reduction, oxime and
hydrazone formation; aldol condensation, Perkin reaction; Cannizzaro
reaction; haloform reaction and nucleophilic addition reactions
(Grignard addition); Carboxylic acids: formation of esters, acid
chlorides and amides, ester hydrolysis; Amines: basicity of substituted
anilines and aliphatic amines, preparation from nitro compounds,
reaction with nitrous acid, azo coupling reaction of diazonium salts of
aromatic amines, Sandmeyer and related reactions of diazonium salts;
carbylamine reaction; Haloarenes: nucleophilic aromatic substitution in
haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding Benzyne mechanism and
Cine substitution).
Carbohydrates: Classification; mono-
and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose); Oxidation, reduction,
glycoside formation and hydrolysis of sucrose.
Amino Acids and Peptides: General structure (only primary structure for peptides) and physical properties.
Properties and uses of some important polymers: Natural rubber, cellulose, nylon, teflon and PVC.
Practical Organic Chemistry:
Detection of elements (N, S, halogens); Detection and identification of
the following functional groups: hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic),
carbonyl (aldehyde and ketone), carboxyl, amino and nitro; Chemical
methods of separation of mono-functional organic compounds from binary
mixtures.
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