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M.Phil Chemistry Syllabus

Scheme of Examination

S.No.	Paper Code	Name of Paper	Max. Marks	Duration
1.	M.Phil.CH. 01	Research Methodology	100	3 Hrs.
2.	M.Phil.CH. 02	Instrumental Analysis	100	3 Hrs.
3.	M.Phil.CH. 03	Material Chemistry	100	3 Hrs.
4.	M.Phil.CH. 04	Dissertation	100
		Total	400

Paper I Research
Methodology

Unit I :-Research Methods
Problem selection – Literature survey – Familiarity with ideas and concepts of investigation – acquiring technical skills – drawing inferences from data – qualitative and quantitative analysis – accessing the problems – results and conclusions – presenting a scientific seminar – publication of research paper – art of writing of thesis.
Unit II: Errors Analysis Limiting Errors, Types of errors –
gross, systematic and random – central value Statistical treatments of data – rejection of data – method of least squares – variance and standard deviation – of combination components – uncertainty analysis and treatment of single sample data – linear regression – Polynomial regression.
Unit III: -Chromatography
Principles – classification of chromatography – TLC, Paper Chromatography
Column chromatography – Ion exchange, Gas chromatography and HPLC.
Unit IV: -Symmetry elements – Symmetry operations –
Multiplication table – Molecular point groups – Matrix representation of symmetry operation – Character table – Symmetry species of point groups – Character table for Point group (C2V and C3V) – distribution of fundamentals among the Symmetry species – Molecular vibrations. Paper II Instrumental analysis

Unit I: -Techniques in analytical chemistry
Introduction – Potentiometry – Principle, Reference electrode, Instrumentation and measurement. Spectrophotometry – Principle, Instrumentation, simultaneous Spectrophotometery, Differential, Reflectance spectro photometry, thermal analysis.
Unit II: Advanced
NMR The Larmor precession – Block equation – Pulse FT NMR – Determination of relaxation times – high resolution Hamiltonian – matrix elements of high resonance Hamiltonian . 13C NMR Chemical shift and charge density calculation, Broad band decoupling, off resonance Decoupli ng and Gated Decoupling – Computation of 13C chemical values. Pulse NMR: 1D Pulse experiments, SEFT, SPI, INEPT, DEPT and INADEQHATE. 2D, Principles and applications.
Unit III :Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
Enhancement of spectra: Computer averaging – fundamental laws of photometry – spectrophotometric accuracy – photometric precision-quantitative
methodologydifference spectroscopyderivative spectroscopy.
Unit IV: Emission spectra Flame Emission spectroscopy / Flame photometry: Principles of Flame photometry, Inferences in Flame photometry. Plasma Emission spectroscopy: Introduction, direct current Plasma (DCP) inductively coupled Plasma (ICP), LCP instrumentation.
Paper –III Materials Chemistry
Unit I: Polymer & polymerization Polymer & their classification, polymerization and their classification, Mechanism of polymerization, molecular weights of polymers – number average molecular weight, weight average molecular weight (MW) structure property relationships in Polymers. Degradation of Polymers, Bio-Polymers.
Unit II:Composites
Introduction, classification, constituents of composites, fiber reinforced composite, unidirectional fiber reinforced composites, failure of fiber reinforced composite materials, short fiber reinforced composite, particles reinforced composite, particulate reinforced composite, structural composite, advantage of composite, application of composites.
Unit III:
Synthesis and Characterization of Materials Materials and their clas sification, Role of Chemistry in Material design. Preparative techniques; Ceramic methods; chemical strategies, chemical vapour deposition; preparation of materials, LangmuirBlodg ett Films. Fabrication of ordered nanostructures. Composition and purity of materials. Preparation and properties of nano fibers.
Unit IV:-Cryogenics
Introduction, cryogenic processing & its mechanism, cryogenic properties of materials, advantages and applications.

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