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CHEM F111 : General Chemistry
Semester II: AY 2019-20 Lecture-01, 02-08-2019
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General Chemistry (Overview of handout)
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CourseNumber :CHEMF111
CourseTitle :GeneralChemistry
Instructor-in-charge :SUROJITPANDE
Instructors : Ajay K. Sah,Anil Kumar, Bharti Khungar, InamurR Laskar,
Madhushree Sarkar, Paritosh Shukla, Saumi Ray, Shamik
Chakraborty,andRamKinkarRoy.
Objectives: The course is composed of two parts. The first part provides a
comprehensivesurveyofvarioustopicsinelectronicstructureofatoms,molecules,
bonding, spectroscopy, Coordination Chemistry and second part focuses on
understandingofthestructureandpropertiesoforganiccompounds.
BooksTextBooksT1:P.W.AtkinsandJuliodePaula,ElementsofPhysicalChemistry:6thEdition,OxfordUniversityPress,Oxford,reprintedin2015.T2:T.W.GrahamSolomons,CraigB.Fryhle,andScottA.Snyder,OrganicChemistry,12thEdition,JohnWiley&Sons,Inc.NewYork,2017ReferenceBooks:R1:J.D.Lee,ConciseInorganicChemistry,5thEdition,BlackwellScience,Oxford,1999.R2:PhysicalChemistry,DavidBallR3:InorganicChemistry:PrinciplesofStructureandReactivity,4thEdition,Huheey,KeiterR4:R.T.MorrisonandR.Boyd,‘OrganicChemistry’,6thEdition,PHI,NewDelhi,1992.
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General Chemistry (Overview of handout) (16Lectures)
• Quantumtheory• Hydrogenatom• Bonding• MolecularSpectroscopy:• Rotational&Raman• Vibrational• Electronic
(9Lectures)• Coordinationchemistry• Distortionofcomplexes
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(16Lectures)• Spectroscopy,NMR.• Conformations• Stereochemistry• ReactionMechanism:SN1,SN2,SNAr,E1,E2.• Aromaticityandpericyclicreactions
General Chemistry (Evaluation components)
Component Duration Weightage %
[Marks]
Date and Time Remarks
Mid- Sem. Exam.
90 min. 30 [90 M]
TBA Closed book
Continuous Evaluation‡
(i) 15 min. (each)
(ii) 30 min (one)
30 [90 M]
Continuous (i) Assignment & Quiz (20% [60 M])
(ii) Pre-compre Quiz (10% [30 M])
Compre. Exam.
3 hours 40 [120 M]
TBA (i) 20% Close Book
(ii) 20% Open Book
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Continuous Evaluation: 30% [90 Marks]
TutorialHour:Clarificationofdoubts,furtherdiscussionandinteractions,problemsolving,periodicalandcontinuousevaluation
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Part-1
IntroductiontoQuantumChemistryandMolecularSpectroscopy:• Needforanewmechanics.• Schröndingerequation(time-independent)• Applicationinsimplemodelsystems–validatethetheory.• SolveH-atomproblem.• Molecularenergystates.
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Latenineteenthcentury
• Newtonianmechanics–highleveloftheoreticalandpracticalsophistication.WorkbyLagrangeandHamiltonian.
• Workonelasticityandthermodynamics.• Equivalenceofheatandmechanicalwork:Rumford,Joule,Carnot.2ndlawofthermodynamics.
• DevelopmentofthermodynamicsbyGibbs• KinetictheoryofgasesbyMaxwell,Boltzman,andGibbs.• EarlyworkofYoungandFresneloninterferencephenomenon–wavetheoryoflight.
• DiscoveryofelectricandmagneticeffectbyFaradayandunificationofvariousexperimentalobservationbyMaxwell–electromagneticnatureoflight.
Alltheprinciplesofphysicshadbeendiscoveredandverylittleisunknown
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Trajectoryofclassicalparticles
NewtonianMechanics–Considermotionofaparticle:i) Initialpositionisknownatt=0,ii) Initialmomentumisknowatt=0,iii) Forceactingontheparticleistakenintoaccount.
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Structureofatomsandmolecules
JohnDalton:Conceptofatomsin1803
AmedeoAvogadro:Conceptofmoleculesin1811
SirJ.J.Thomson:Conceptofelectronin1897
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Caveat• Variablescanadoptanyvalue–thereisnorestriction(??).• Conceptofsize:BIGandSMALL
Rockscomeinallsizes.
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Caveat:QM,sizeisabsolute
ConceptofsizeisfundamentallydifferentinQuantumMechanicsfromclassicalmechanicsinthewayittreatssize.AbsoluteMeaningofSize
Assume: "Thereisalimittothefinenessofour powersofobservationandthesmallnessof theaccompanyingdisturbance,alimitwhich
isinherentinthenatureofthingsandcan neverbesurpassedbyimprovedtechnique
orincreasedskillonthepartoftheobserver.” Dirac