Chemical Sciences: A Manual for CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship and JRF/Book outline

The questions would be setup in each of the subject areas of NET, viz., ../Chemical Sciences/; ../Earth, Atmospheric, Ocean & Planetary Sciences/; ../Life Sciences/; ../Mathematical Sciences/ and ../Physical Sciences/. 2.../COMMON ELEMENTRY COMPUTER SCIENCE/:(Applicable to all candidates offering any subject area; A few questions dealing with basic computer awareness and uses.) (i)PROGRAMMING INSTRUCTIONS (ii)SIMPLE ALGORITHMS AND COMMPUTATIONAL METHODS
 * 1) 1.../General information on Science and its interface with society/ to test the candidate’s awareness of science, aptitude of scientific and quantitative reasoning. Questions would be so designed to judge the creativity, analytical ability and research aptitude of a candidate.
 * 1) ../Basic principles and applications of quantum mechanics/ – hydrogen atom, angular momentum.
 * 2) ../Variational and perturbational methods/.
 * 3) Basics of ../atomic structure/, ../electronic configuration, ../shapes of orbitals/, ../hydrogen atom spectra/.
 * 4) Theoretical treatment of ../atomic structures and chemical bonding/.
 * 5) ../Chemical applications of group theory/.
 * 6) ../Basic principles and application of spectroscopy/ – rotational, vibrational, electronic, Raman, ESR, NMR.
 * 7) ../Chemical thermodynamics/.
 * 8) ../Phase equilibria/.
 * 9) ../Statistical thermodynamics/.
 * 10) ../Chemical equilibria/.
 * 11) ../Electrochemistry/ – Nernst equation, electrode kinetics, electrical double layer, Debye-Hückel theory.
 * 12) ../Chemical kinetics/ – empirical rate laws, Arrhenius equation, theories of reaction rates, determination of reaction mechanisms, experimental techniques for fast reactions.
 * 13) ../Concepts of catalysis/.
 * 14) ../Polymer chemistry/. Molecular weights and their determinations. Kinetics of chain polymerization.
 * 15) ../Solids - structural classification of binary and ternary compounds/, diffraction techniques, bonding, thermal, electrical and magnetic properties
 * 16) ../Collids/ and ../surface phenomena/.
 * 17) ../Data analysis/.
 * 18) ../Chemical periodicity/
 * 19) ../Structure and bonding/ in homo- and heteronuclear molecules, including shapes of molecules
 * 20) ../Concepts of acids and bases/
 * 21) ../Chemistry of the main group elements and their compounds/ Allotropy, synthesis, bonding and structure.
 * 22) ../Chemistry of transition elements and coordination compounds/ – bonding theories, spectral and magnetic properties, reaction mechanisms.
 * 23) ../Inner transition elements – spectral and magnetic properties, analytical applications/
 * 24) ../Organometallic compounds/ - synthesis, bonding and structure, and reactivity. ../Organometallics in homogenous catalysis/
 * 25) ../Cages and metal clusters/
 * 26) ../Analytical chemistry- separation techniques/ ../Spectroscopic electro- and thermoanalytical methods/
 * 27) ../Bioinorganic chemistry – photosystems, porphyrines, metalloenzymes, oxygen transport, electron- transfer reactions, nitrogen fixation/
 * 28) ../Physical characterisation of inorganic compounds/ by IR, Raman, NMR, EPR, Mössbauer, UV-, NQR, MS, electron spectroscopy and microscopic techniques
 * 29) ../Nuclear chemistry/ – nuclear reactions, fission and fusion, radio-analytical techniques and activation analysis/]]
 * 30) ../IUPAC nomenclature of organic compounds/.
 * 31) ../Principles of stereochemistry/, ../conformational analysis/, ../isomerism/ and ../chirality/.
 * 32) ../Reactive intermediates/ and ../organic reaction mechanisms/.
 * 33) ../Concepts of aromaticity/.
 * 34) ../Pericyclic reactions/.
 * 35) ../Named reactions/.
 * 36) ../Common reagents in organic synthesis/(organic, inorganic and organometallic).
 * 37) ../Transformations and rearrangements/.
 * 38) ../Principles and applications of organic photochemistry/. ../Free radical reactions/.
 * 39) ../Reactions involving nucleophotic carbon intermediates/.
 * 40) ../Oxidation and reduction of functional groups/.
 * 41) ../Chemistry of natural products/ such as steroids, alkaloids, terpenes, peptides, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and lipids.
 * 42) ../Selective organic transformations/ – chemoselectivity, regioselectivity, stereoselectivity, enantioselectivity. Protecting groups.
 * 43) ../Chemistry of aromatic and aliphatic heterocyclic compounds/.
 * 44) ../Physical characterisation of organic compounds/ by IR, UV-, MS, and NMR.
 * 45) ../Chemistry in nanoscience and technology/.
 * 46) ../Catalysis and green chemistry/.
 * 47) ../Medicinal chemistry/.
 * 48) ../Supramolecular chemistry/.
 * 49) ../Environmental chemistry/.