CSIR-UGC
National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior Research Fellowship and
Lecturer-ship
CHEMICAL
SCIENCES
section
|
Total no. of Q
|
Required to Answer
|
Marks for each question
|
Part A
|
20
|
15
|
2
|
Part B
|
50
|
35
|
2
|
Part C
|
75
|
25
|
4
|
total
|
145
|
75
|
200
|
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:
1.
Basic principles of quantum mechanics: Postulates; operator algebra;
exactlysolvable systems: particle-in-a-box, harmonic oscillator and the
hydrogen atom,
including
shapes of atomic orbitals; orbital and spin angular momenta; tunneling.
2.
Approximate methods of quantum mechanics: Variational principle; perturbation
theory
up to second order in energy; applications.
3.
Atomic structure and spectroscopy; term symbols; many-electron systems and
antisymmetry
principle.
4.
Chemical bonding in diatomics; elementary concepts of MO and VB theories;
Huckel
theory for conjugated π-electron systems.
5.
Chemical applications of group theory; symmetry elements; point groups;
character
tables; selection rules.
6.
Molecular spectroscopy: Rotational and vibrational spectra of diatomic
molecules;
electronic spectra; IR and Raman activities – selection rules; basic
principles
of magnetic resonance.
7.
Chemical thermodynamics: Laws, state and path functions and their applications;
thermodynamic
description of various types of processes; Maxwell’s relations;
spontaneity
and equilibria; temperature and pressure dependence of
thermodynamic
quantities; Le Chatelier principle; elementary description of
phase
transitions; phase equilibria and phase rule; thermodynamics of ideal and
non-ideal
gases, and solutions.
8.
Statistical thermodynamics: Boltzmann distribution; kinetic theory of gases;
partition
functions and their relation to thermodynamic quantities – calculations
for
model systems.
9.
Electrochemistry: Nernst equation, redox systems, electrochemical cells;
DebyeHuckel theory; electrolytic conductance – Kohlrausch’s law and its
applications;
ionic
equilibria; conductometric and potentiometric titrations.
10.
Chemical kinetics: Empirical rate laws and temperature dependence; complex
reactions;
steady state approximation; determination of reaction mechanisms;
collision
and transition state theories of rate constants; unimolecular reactions;
enzyme
kinetics; salt effects; homogeneous catalysis; photochemical reactions.
11.
Colloids and surfaces: Stability and properties of colloids; isotherms and
surface
area;
heterogeneous catalysis.
12.
Solid state: Crystal structures; Bragg’s law and applications; band structure
of
solids.
13.
Polymer chemistry: Molar masses; kinetics of polymerization.
14.
Data analysis: Mean and standard deviation; absolute and relative errors;
linear
regression;
covariance and correlation coefficient.
Organic
Chemistry
1.
IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules including regio- and stereoisomers.
2.
Principles of stereochemistry: Configurational and conformational isomerism in
acyclic
and cyclic compounds; stereogenicity, stereoselectivity, enantioselectivity,
diastereoselectivity
and asymmetric induction.
3.
Aromaticity: Benzenoid and non-benzenoid compounds – generation and
reactions.
4.
Organic reactive intermediates: Generation, stability and reactivity of
carbocations,
carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, benzynes and nitrenes.
5.
Organic reaction mechanisms involving addition, elimination and substitution
reactions
with electrophilic, nucleophilic or radical species. Determination of
reaction
pathways.
6.
Common named reactions and rearrangements – applications in organic synthesis.
7.
Organic transformations and reagents: Functional group interconversion
including
oxidations
and reductions; common catalysts and reagents (organic, inorganic,
organometallic
and enzymatic). Chemo, regio and stereoselective transformations.
8.
Concepts in organic synthesis: Retrosynthesis, disconnection, synthons, linear
and
convergent
synthesis, umpolung of reactivity and protecting groups.
9.
Asymmetric synthesis: Chiral auxiliaries, methods of asymmetric induction –
substrate,
reagent and catalyst controlled reactions; determination of enantiomeric
and
diastereomeric excess; enantio-discrimination. Resolution – optical and
kinetic.
10.
Pericyclic reactions – electrocyclisation, cycloaddition, sigmatropic
rearrangements
and other related concerted reactions. Principles and applications
of
photochemical reactions in organic chemistry.
11.
Synthesis and reactivity of common heterocyclic compounds containing one or
two
heteroatoms (O, N, S).
12.
Chemistry of natural products: Carbohydrates, proteins and peptides, fatty
acids,
nucleic
acids, terpenes, steroids and alkaloids. Biogenesis of terpenoids and
alkaloids.
13.
Structure determination of organic compounds by IR, UV-Vis, 1H & 13C NMR
and
Mass spectroscopic techniques.
Interdisciplinary
topics
1.
Chemistry in nanoscience and technology.
2.
Catalysis and green chemistry.
3.
Medicinal chemistry.
4.
Supramolecular chemistry.
5.
Environmental chemistry.
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