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UPPSC Syllabus for Chemistry (Subject Code 03):

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Atomic Structure: Bohr's model and its limitation de Broglie equation, Heisenberg's suncertainty principle, quantum mechanical operators and the Schrodinger wave equation, physical significance of wave function and its dimensional box. Quantization of electronic energies (qualitative treatment of hydrogen atom).

Paul's Exclusion principle: Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity, Aufbau principle, Electronic configuration of atoms. Long form of periodic table including translawrencium elements. Periodicity in progerties of the elements such as atomic and ionic radionization potential election affinity, electronegativity and hydration energy.

Nuclear and Radiation Chemistry: Structure of nucleus (shell model), nuclear forces, nuclear stabilily-NP ration, nuclear binding energy Kinetics, detection and measurement of radioactivity, Artificial transmutation of elements and nuclear reactions, nuclear fission & fusion, radioactive isotopes and their applications.

Radio cartoon dating, Elementary ideas of radiation chemistry, radiolysis of water and aqueous solution, unit of radiation, chemical yield (G-value), Fricke's dosimetry. Chemical Bondlng: Valence bond theory (Heitier-London and Pauling-Slater theories), hybridization, VSEPR theory and molecular orbital energy lever diagrams, for homo and hetro nuclear diatomic molecules, bond order, bond length and bond strength, signa and p-bonds. hydrogen bond, characteristics of covalent bond.

Chemistry of s-and p-block elements: General properties of s-and p-block elements, chemical reactivity of elements and group trends. Chemical behaviour with respect of their hybrids, halidas and oxides. Chemistry of Transition Elements: General Characteristics, variable oxidation stases, complex formation, colour, magnetic and catalytic properties. Comparative study of 4d and 5d transition elements with 3d analogues with respect to their ionic radii, oxidation stasis and magnetic properties.

Chemistry of Lanthantdes and Actinides: Lanthanide contraction, oxidation stasis, Principles of separation of lanthanides and actinidas. Magnetic and spectral properties of their compounds. Coordination Chemistry : Werner's Theory of coordination compounds. IUPAC system of nomenclature, effective atomic number (EAN) Isomerism in coordination compounds. Valence bond theory and its limitations.

Crystal held theory, Crystal held splitting of d-orbitals in octahedral, tetrahedrai and square planer complexes. Eq and factors affecting its magnitude, calculation of Crystal held stabilisation energies (CFSE) for dl to d9 week and strong field, octahedral complexes, spectrochemical series. Electronic spectre of d-transition metal complexes, types of electronic transitions, selection rules for electronic transitions.

Spectroscopic ground states for d1 to d10 systems. Bio-Inorganic Chemistry: Essential and trace elements in biological processes, Metalloporphyrins with special reference to haemoglobin and myoglobin, Biological role of alkali and alkaline earth metal ions with special reference to Ca2+. Preparation, Properties and Uses of the following Inorganic Compounds: Heavy water, boric acid, diborane, hydrazine, hydroxylamine.

Potassium dicromate, potassium permanganate, Ce (IV) sulphate and titanium (III) sulphate, Polymers; Molecular weight of polymers by sedimentation light scattering viscosity and osmotic pressure. Number average and weight average molecular weights, elasticity and crystallinity of polymers. Borazlnes: Sillicons and phosphonitrillic halide polymers.

Chemical Thermodynamics: Thermodynamic functions, Laws of thermodynamics and their applications to various physico-chemical process. Concept of chemical potential, Glibbs Duhem equation, Classius-Clapeyron equation, thermodynamic treatment of colligative properties. Chemical Kinetics: Order and molecularity of a reaction Rate laws, methods for determining the order of a reaction. Energy of activation, Colision theory of reaction rate. Steady state approximations. Transition state, theory of reaction rates, consecutive and side reactions.

Phase Equilibria: Phases, components, degrees of freedom, phase diagram of one and two component systems. Nearest distribution law, Applications of distribution law. Electrochemistry: Theory of strong electrolytes, Debye-Hucket theory of activity coefficient laws of electrolytic conduction, transport number determination of transport number (Hittorts and moving boundary method). Applications of conductance for determining the solubility and solubility products, Ionic equilibria, Ionic product of water, pH, acid-base indicators, common Ion effect, buffer solubility buffer index, buffer capacity solubility product and applications in analysis.

Solid State Chemistry: Classification of solids, seven crystal systems, elements of symmetry in crystals, space lattice and unit cell, classification of crystals on the basis of bond types ionic solids, metalic solids, covalent solids, and molecular solids. The close packing of spheres, hexagonal close ionic solids, metalic solids, covalent solids, and molecular solids. The close packing of spheres, hexagonal close packing, cubic close packing and body centered cubic packing, coordination number and radius ratio effect. Bargg's law of X-ray diffraction, powder pattern method, crystal structure of NaCI and KCI.

Surface Chemistry: Stability of and origin of charge on colloids, Electrokinetic potential. Physical and chemical absorption, various types of adsorption isotherms. Hormogenous and heteterogeneous catalysis enzyme catalysis (Michelis-Menton) equation. Molecular Spectra: Rotational Spectra Rigid and non-rigid rotator models. Determination of bond distance of diatomic molecules, linear triatomic molecules isotopic substitution. Vibrational Rotational Spectra: Hormonic and anthormonic vibrations, vibrational energies of diatomic molecules, zero point energy, evaluation of force constant.

Fundamental frequencies, overtones, trot bands, degrees of freedm of polyatomic molecules. Concept of group frequencies. Raman Spectra: Raman effect stokes and antistokes fines and their intensity difference. Rule of mutual exclusion. Electronic Spectra: Electronic transitions, Frank condom Principle, Phosphorescene and fluorescence.

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General Organic Chemistry: Electronic displacement inductive; electromeric and mesmoeric effects, Conjugation and hyperconjugation, Resonance and its application to organic compounds, Electrophlies, nuclephlies, carbocations, carbanions and free radical. Organic acids and bases.

Effects of structure on the strength of organic acids and bases. Hydrogen bond and is effect on (he properties of organic compounds. Concepts of Organic Reaction Mechanism: Mechanism of addition, substitution, elimination, reactions and mole:ular rearranagements. Mechanism of Electrophilic and nucleophilic automatic substitution.

Mechanism of the following reactions: Aldol condensation, Claims condensation Beckmann rearrangement, Perkin reaction, Reiner-Tiemann reaction, Cannizaro's reaction, Friedel Craft's reaction, Refonnatisky's reaction and Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement.

Aliphatic Compounds: Chemistry of simple organic compounds belonging to following classes with special reference to the mechanisms of the reactions involved therein, alkanes, alkenes, alkynes alkyl, halides, alconol, ethers, thiols aldehydes, ketones, a busnaltruated carbonyl compounds, acids and their derivatives, amines, aminoacids, hydroxy acids, unsatuarated adds and diabasic acids. Synthetic uses of malonic easier acetoaceliceasier, Gridnand's reagent, carbene, diazomelhane and phosphoranes.

Carbohydrates: Classification, configuration and general reaction of simple monosaccharides. Ozone formation, mutarotation, pyranose and furanose structures. Chain lengthening and chain shortening in aldoses and Kethses. Interconverslon of glucose and fructose.

Stereochemistry and conformations: Elements of symmetry, optical and geometical Isomerism in simple organic compounds. Absolute configuration (R & S); confugations of geometrical Isomers, E& Z notations, Conformation of mono and distributed cyclohexnaas. Boat and chair forme.

Aromatic Compounds: Modern structure of benzene; Concept of aromaticity. Huckle rule and its simple application to non-benezenoid aromatic compounds. Activating and deactivating effect of substituent groups, directive influence.

Study of the compounds containing following groups attached to the alky and benzene ring halogen, hydroxy, nitro and amino groups. Sulphonic acids, benzaldelyde, salicy dehyde, acetophenone, Benzoic, salicyclic, phithalic, cannamic and mandelic acids. Naphthalene & Pyridine: Synthesis, structure and important reactions.

Alkaloids: General methods of structure elucidation of alkaloids, chemistry of nicotine. Organic. Polymers: Mechanism of polymerization, polymers of industrial importance, synthetic fibers, Chemistry of Living Cells: A Brief introduction, chemical constituents, cell membraines, acid base balance, Diffusion and active transport. Donnan membranes equilibria.

Enzymes and Coenzymes: Nomenclature and characteristics, factors which affect enzyme activity. NMR Spectroscopy: Principle of PMR, chemical shift, spin-spin coupling, interpretation of PMR spectra of simple organic molecules, Evaluation of analytical Data: Errors, accuracy and precision, Relative and standard deviation rejection of doubtful, observations, t-test, Q-test.

Solvent Extraction: Distribution law, Craigs concept of counter-current distribution, important solvent extraction systems. Chromatography: Classification of Chromatographic techniques, general principles of absorption, partition exchange, paper and thin layer chromatography. Environmental Chemistry: Air pollutants and their toxic effects, depletion of ozone layer effects of oxides of nitrogen, flurochlorocarbons and their effect on ozone layer, Greenhouse effect. Acid rain.

UPPSC Main Exam 2010 Syllabus for Chemistry