Engineering Chemistry

Table of Contents:

1. Atoms and Molecules
2. Reaction dynamics
3. Electrochemistry
4. Transition Metal Chemistry
5. Organometallic Chemistry
6. Structure and Reactivity of Organic Molecules
7. Polymerization
8. Photochemistry

Atoms and Molecules

1. Particle in a box illustrating energy quantization,
2. Angular momentum quantization, (extended)
3. Radial and angular parts of H atom,
4. Wave functions/orbitals,
5. Probability and charge distribution.
6. Many electron atoms, Homonuclear, and heteronuclear diatomic,
7. Covalent bonds, ionic bonds, and electronegativity concepts,
8. Hybridization and shapes of molecules.
9. Non- covalent interaction(Van Der Waal and hydrogen bonding.)

Reaction Dynamics

1. Rate Laws,
2. Mechanics and theories of reaction rates(Collision and transition state theory)
3. Lasers in chemistry.

Electrochemistry

1. Application of electrode potentials to predict redox reactions in solution with special reference to the Lattimer and Frost diagrams.

Transition Metal Chemistry

1. Structures of coordination compounds corresponding to coordination numbers up to to 6,
2. Types of ligands,
3. Isomerism(Geotechnical, optical, ionization, linkage and coordination),
4. Theories of bonding in coordination compounds,
5. crystal field theory, valence bond theory,
6. Chelation,
7. Brief application in organic synthesis and medicines etc.

Organo Metallic Chemistry and Catalysis

1. Structure and bonding in oregano metallic complexes,
2. The sixteen and eighteen electron Rules, 
3. Homogeneous catalysis,  
4. The role of metal in catalytic cycles during some chemical reactions, 
5. Roles of metals in biology, 
6. oxygen carries, 
7. electron transfer. 

Structure and Reactivity of Organic  Molecules

1. Inductive effect, 
2. Resonance, hyperconjugation, electromeric effect, 
3. Carbonation, carbanion and free radical,
4. A brief study of some addition, elimination and substitution reaction,  
5. Conformational analysis 

Polymerization

1. Basic concepts, 
2. Classification and industrial applications. 

Photochemistry

• Photoexcitation of Carbon substrate ( Norrish type 1 and type 2 reaction)