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GATE 2014 Syllabus For Chemistry (CY) | GATE Syllabus 2014

GATE 2014 Syllabus For Chemistry (CY)

 GATE 2014 Syllabus For Chemistry
General Aptitude

1. Verbal Ability: English grammar, sentence completion, verbal analogies, word
groups, instructions, critical reasoning and verbal deduction.

2. Numerical Ability: Numerical computation, numerical estimation, numerical reasoning and data interpretation.

Physical Chemistry

Structure: Quantum theory: principles and techniques; applications to a particle in a 
box, harmonic oscillator, rigid rotor and hydrogen atom; valence bond and molecular 
orbital theories, Hückel approximation; approximate techniques: variation and 
perturbation; symmetry, point groups; rotational, vibrational, electronic, NMR, and ESR 
spectroscopy

Equilibrium: Kinetic theory of gases; First law of thermodynamics, heat, energy, and 
work; second law of thermodynamics and entropy; third law and absolute entropy; free 
energy; partial molar quantities; ideal and non-ideal solutions; phase transformation: 
phase rule and phase diagrams  – one, two, and three component systems; activity, 
activity coefficient, fugacity, and fugacity coefficient; chemical equilibrium, response of 
chemical equilibrium to temperature and pressure; colligative properties; Debye-Hückel 
theory; thermodynamics of electrochemical cells; standard electrode potentials: 
applications  – corrosion and energy conversion; molecular partition function 
(translational, rotational, vibrational, and electronic).

Kinetics: Rates of chemical reactions, temperature dependence of chemical reactions; 
elementary, consecutive, and parallel reactions; steady state approximation; theories of 
reaction rates  – collision and transition state theory, relaxation kinetics, kinetics of 
photochemical reactions and free radical polymerization, homogeneous catalysis, 
adsorption isotherms and heterogeneous catalysis.

Inorganic Chemistry

Main group elements:  General characteristics, allotropes, structure and reactions of 
simple and industrially important compounds: boranes, carboranes, silicones, silicates, 
boron nitride, borazines and phosphazenes. Hydrides, oxides and oxoacids of pnictogens 
(N, P), chalcogens (S, Se &Te) and halogens, xenon compounds, pseudo halogens and 
interhalogen compounds. Shapes of molecules and hard- soft acid base concept. 
Structure and Bonding (VBT) of B, Al, Si, N, P, S, Cl compounds. Allotropes of carbon: 
graphite, diamond, C60. Synthesis and reactivity of inorganic polymers of Si and P.

Transition Elements: General characteristics of d  and f block elements; coordination 
chemistry: structure and isomerism, stability, theories of metal- ligand bonding (CFT 
and LFT), mechanisms of substitution and electron transfer reactions of coordination 
complexes. Electronic spectra and magnetic properties of transition metal complexes, 
lanthanides and actinides. Metal carbonyls, metal- metal bonds and metal atom clusters, 
metallocenes; transition metal complexes with bonds to hydrogen, alkyls, alkenes and 
arenes; metal carbenes; use of organometallic compounds as catalysts in organic 
synthesis. Bioinorganic chemistry of Na, K. Mg, Ca, Fe, Co, Zn, Cu andMo.

Solids: Crystal systems and lattices, miller planes, crystal packing, crystal defects; 
Bragg’s Law, ionic crystals, band theory, metals and semiconductors, Different 
structures of AX, AX2, ABX3 compounds, spinels.

Instrumental methods of analysis:  Atomic absorption and emission spectroscopy 
including ICP-AES, UV- visible spectrophotometry, NMR, mass, Mossbauer spectroscopy 
(Fe and Sn), ESR spectroscopy, chromatography including GC and HPLC and electroanalytical methods (Coulometry, cyclic voltammetry, polarography – amperometry, and 
ion selective electrodes).

Organic Chemistry

Stereochemistry:  Chirality of organic molecules with or without chiral centres. 
Specification of configuration in compounds having one or more stereogenic centres. 
Enantiotopic and diastereotopic atoms, groups and faces. Stereoselective and 
stereospecific synthesis. Conformational analysis of acyclic and cyclic compounds.
Geometrical isomerism. Configurational and conformational effects on reactivity and 
selectivity/specificity.

Reaction mechanism: Methods of determining reaction mechanisms. Nucleophilic and 
electrophilic substitutions and additions to multiple bonds. Elimination reactions. 
Reactive intermediates- carbocations, carbanions, carbenes, nitrenes, arynes, free 
radicals. Molecular rearrangements involving electron deficient atoms.

Organic synthesis: Synthesis, reactions, mechanisms and selectivity involving the 
following- alkenes, alkynes, arenes, alcohols, phenols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic 
acids and their derivatives, halides, nitro compounds and amines. Use of compounds of 
Mg, Li, Cu, B and Si in organic synthesis. Concepts in multistep synthesis- retrosynthetic 
analysis, disconnections, synthons, synthetic equivalents, reactivity umpolung, 
selectivity, protection and deprotection of functional groups.

Pericyclic reactions: Electrocyclic, cycloaddition and sigmatropic reactions. Orbital 
correlation, FMO and PMO treatments.

PhotochemistryBasic principles. Photochemistry of alkenes, carbonyl compounds, and 
arenes. Photooxidation and photoreduction.Di-π- methane rearrangement, Barton 
reaction.

Heterocyclic compounds: Structure, preparation, properties and reactions of furan, 
pyrrole, thiophene, pyridine, indole and their derivatives.

Biomolecules: Structure, properties and reactions of mono- and di-saccharides, 
physicochemical properties of amino acids, chemical synthesis of peptides, structural 
features of proteins, nucleic acids, steroids, terpenoids, carotenoids, and alkaloids.

Spectroscopy:  Principles and applications of UV-visible, IR, NMR and Mass 
spectrometry in the determination of structures of organic molecules.

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