Dr. Aniruddha Chakraborty

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Course Title: Chemistry Common Course:

Weekly Lecture Hours: 3
Weekly Tutorial Hours: 0
Subject Code: CY101
Examination Duration (Hours): 3
Relative Weightage: Not Decided.
Credits: 3
Semister: Ist
Pre-Requisite: Nil
Venue: Room No: 207
Timings: Monday (9.00-9.50), WednesDay (8.00-8.50), Friday (10.00-10.50).
Instructors: Dr. Subrata Ghosh, Dr. Prem Felix, Dr. Aniruddha Chakraborty.
Objective: To provide a theoretical knowledge of fundamental chemistry and to make the scientific background stronger for engineering discipline students.

Details of Course: 

Unit 1: Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry (Dr. SG, Lecture Hours – 5):      Hyperconjugation; inductive, resonance and fields effects; aromaticity, Huckel’s rule; acids, bases and buffers.

Unit 2: Polymers (Dr. PF, Lecture hours - 3): Properties, Industrial polymers, conducting polymers

Unit 3: Quantum Mechanics (Dr. AC, Lecture Hours - 6): Postulates of quantum mechanics, Schrödinger wave equation, Interpretation of wave function, particle in a box, implication of the concepts, Hydrogen atom, Radial and angular wave functions, Shapes of orbital, Structure and Bonding.

Unit 4: Organic Reaction Mechanism and Fundamentals of Bioorganic Chemistry (Dr. SG, Lecture Hours - 5) Stereochemistry; organic reaction mechanism; bioorganic chemistry.

Unit 5: Electrochemistry (Dr. PF, Lecture Hours - 2): Electrochemical corrosion and fuel cells

Unit 6: Spectroscopic Techniques (Dr. AC, Lecture Hours - 3): Introductory ideas of molecular spectroscopy, Vibrational and Rotational motion, Electronic Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy,

Unit 7: (Dr. SG, Lecture Hours - 4) Fats, oils and detergents, paints, lubricants, natural and synthetic rubbers, synthetic dyes, cements, explosives and propellants, plastic.

Unit 8: Kinetics and Catalysis (Dr. PF, Lecture hours – 3): Theories of chemical reactions, homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis

Unit 9:Thermodynamics (Dr. AC, Lecture Hours - 4): Statistical Concept of Entropy, Free energy and Spontaneous Change, Chemical equilibrium, Chemical Potential, Phase Transitions.

Unit 10: Nanomaterials (Dr. PF, Lecture hours – 2): Introduction, Synthesis of nanomaterials, properties and applications

Unit 11: Coordination compounds (Dr. PF, Lecture hours 3): Crystal field theory, colour and magnetic properties

Suggested Books:

 1. R. J. Silbey and R. A. Alberty, Physical Chemistry, 3rd Edition, Wiley 2000.

 2. Fred W. Billmeyer, Textbook of Polymer Science.

 3. Guozhong Cao, Nanostructures & Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties & Applications

 4. Morrison R.T. and Boyd R.N., "Organic Chemistry", 6th Edn., 2001, Printice Hall of India, New Delhi.

 5. P. Sykes, A guide to mechanism in Organic Chemistry, 6th Ed, Pearson Education (2004).

 6. P. Y. Bruice, Organic Chemistry, Prentice Hall (1998).

 7. J. Clayden, N. Breevers, S. Warren, P. Wothers, Organic Chemistry, Oxford University Press (2001).