Chemistry of Carbon Compounds
Hybridization of carbon δ and π-bonds.

Environmental Chemistry

Heavy Chemicals : Sulfuric acid (contact process), Ammonia (Haber’s process), Nitric acid (Ostwald’s process), sodium bi-carbonate

Chemistry in Industry

Chemistry of Metals :

Halogen

Chemistry of Non-metallic Elements and their Compounds
Carbon – occurrence, isotopes, allotropes (graphite, diamond, fullerene); CO and CO₂ production, properties and uses.

Ionic and Redox Equilibria

Physical Chemistry of Solutions
Colloidal Solutions – differences from true solutions; Hydrophobic and hydrophilic colloids (examples and uses); Coagulation and peptization of colloids; Dialysis and its applications; Brownian motion; Tyndall effect and its applications; Elementary idea of emulsion, surfactant and micelle.
Electrolytic Solutions – Specific conductance, equivalent conductance, ionic conductance, Kohlrausch’s law, Faraday’s laws of electrolysis, applications. Numerical problems.

Chemical Energetics and Chemical Dynamics

Gaseous state

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
Valence electrons, the Octet rule, electrovalent, covalent and coordinate covalent bonds with examples; Properties of electrovalent and covalent compounds. Limitations of Octet rule (examples); Fajan’s Rule.
Directionality of covalent bonds, shapes of poly-atomic molecules (examples); Concept of hybridization of atomic orbitals (qualitative pictorial approach) : sp, sp², sp³ and dsp².

The Periodic Table and Chemical Families

Radioactivity and Nuclear Chemistry

Atomic Structure

Atoms, Molecules and Chemical Arithmetic :

SYLLABUS FOR WEST BENGAL JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION CHEMISTRY

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