• Prof. Kamalika Banerjee

The course Inorganic Chemistry I (MCH-011) is the first course on inorganic chemistry being offered in the first semester of the M.Sc. Chemistry Programme and is worth 4 credits. The course has been divided into four blocks. The first block has three units which deal with main group elements, transition elements and structure of molecules. In this block, the first unit deals with the periodic trends of main group elements & transition elements along with their electronic configuration and also includes Latimer diagrams. Thereafter, in the other units phosphorus-nitrogen and sulfur-nitrogen compounds as well as the structure of molecules has been discussed. The second block gives the complete picture of organometallic chemistry. Here there are six units. The topics that are included in this block are organometallic compounds, metal carbonyls, metal pi complexes and metal clusters.
The third block is on crystal field theory and the applications as well as the limitations of crystal field theory and they are covered in two units. Block four is on basics of magnetochemistry, d-metal complexes magnetism, electronic spectra and d-d transition and charge transfer spectra. In this block, there are four units.

• Prof. Lalita S Kumar

The ‘Stereochemistry and Reactive Intermediates’ is Course II of the Semester I of M.Sc. Chemistry programme which deals with the stereochemistry and reactive intermediates in the context of organic compounds. It is a four credits course comprising of four Blocks with a total of 16 units. We understand that you have a prior knowledge of stereochemistry and the reactive intermediates being part of the undergraduate organic chemistry courses. You would have realised that there are a number of physical and spectral properties of molecules that cannot be explained simply on the basis of their two dimensional structure. It is in such cases that the three dimensional structures or the stereochemistry of molecules become essential. Besides these properties, the stereochemical aspects play important role in deciphering the exact mechanism or the path of a chemical reaction. As mentioned above, with the background knowledge of reactive intermediates it is well known to you that most of the organic reactions undergo completion via the formation of such reactive species. The concepts of stereochemistry and reactive intermediates go hand in hand as these mutually augment the information of the course of an organic reaction. In this course we take you to the advanced levels of stereochemistry and the reactive intermediates. This course aims to provide the learners a recall of the concepts learnt earlier, introduce some new concepts and connect the two through a smooth transition. The whole course is divided into two volumes viz., Volume 1 and Volume 2. Volume 1 has been named “Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds” which comprises of two blocks. Block 1, titled “Stereochemistry-I” consists of four units. This block is dedicated to the stereochemical aspects like the molecular symmetry, stereoisomerism of molecules with and without chiral centres and conformations of six membered rings. The second block i.e., Block 2, titled “Stereochemistry-II” is again dedicated to the stereochemical aspects. It starts with some basic concepts like configuration and assigning the configuration to the newer concepts like topicity and prostereoisomerism, asymmetric induction, molecular dissymmetry and chiroptical properties. Volume 2 is named “Reactive Intermediates in Organic Chemistry” and consists again of two blocks in continuation to the previous two blocks. Block 3, titled “Reactive Intermediates-I” consists of four units. The block starts with the basics of the reaction mechanism and covers carbocations as intermediates in two units. The last unit in this block deals with carbanions as the reactive intermediates. Block 4 is titled as “Reactive Intermediates-II” covers four more types of intermediates. These are free radicals, carbenes, nitrenes and benzynes. You will study a good account of mechanistic details and the stereochemical aspects wherever required for the clear understanding of the reactive intermediates.

• Prof. Sanjiv Kumar

• Dr. Vishal Singh

• Prof. Lalita S Kumar

The ‘Biology for Chemists” is a Semester I course of M.Sc. Chemistry programme that has been designed for the chemists who do not have a biology background or have not studied the subject of Biology at the Intermediate level of schooling. You might know that the postgraduate level of chemistry has no demarcations that separate the chemistry topics from the ones involving biological systems. In view of this the mentioned course starts from the very basic idea of cell and the functions of cell organelles. It apprises the learners with the important biomolecules present in living organisms and are significant for the physiological and other functions. The course introduces the bioenergetics and the metabolism of all the biomolecules discussed. Some other important topics include the immune system and the information pathways which are relevant to the chemists and would help in their studies at the Doctoral level. The purpose is not to add the content load so, it is a two credits course, comprising of two Blocks with a total of 8 units. The whole course is presented in one volume as one booklet consisting of two Blocks. Volume 1 has been named “Cells and Biomolecules” which comprises of four units. This block is dedicated to the structural organisation of a cell as the basic unit of living beings. The second block i.e., Block 2, titled “Metabolism and Immune System” deals with all the major metabolic pathways and the immune system.

• Prof. Kamalika Banerjee

The course Inorganic Chemistry Lab-I (MCHL-011) is the first laboratory course on Inorganic chemistry being offered in the first semester of the M.Sc. Chemistry Programme. It is worth 2 credits i.e. you have to spend a total of 60 hours for this course. In the first Unit qualitative inorganic analysis of the semimicro level will be dealt with. Here you will be doing the preliminary investigation of the sample and then detecting the cations and after that confirmatory tests for the cations have to be carried out. Also, special test for the mixtures of cations have to be studied. You will be given inorganic mixtures containing at least 4 known cations along with rare elements and after that you will be identifying 4 cations along with rare elements (in cationic/anionic forms) in unknown inorganic mixtures.. In the Experiment 2 you will be doing complexometric titrations and it has three experiments in it where different mixtures of metals have been discussed. In the Experiment 3 you will be using gravimetric method for estimation of copper and nickel together in a mixture.

• Prof. Sunita Malhotra

• Prof. Sanjiv Kumar

• Prof. Sunita Malhotra

• Prof. Sanjiv Kumar

• Prof. Sunita Malhotra

• Prof. Kamalika Banerjee

• Prof. Sunita Malhotra

• Prof. Sanjiv Kumar

• Prof. Kamalika Banerjee