(Syllabus) Karnataka PSC: Preliminary Examination : Chemistry

Syllabus For Civil Service Examination (Preliminary)

Subject: Chemistry

SECTION - A :-

1. Atomic Number, Electronic Configuration of elements, Aufbau principle, hunds’s Multiplicity Rule, Pauli’s Exclusion principle, long form of the Periodic Classification of elements; salient characteristics of ‘s’, ‘p’, ‘d’ and “f’ block element.
2. Atomic and ionic radii, ionization potential, electron affmity and electronegativity; their variation with the position of the element in the periodic table.
3. Natural and artificial radioactivity theory of nuclear disintegration;disintegration and displacement laws; radioactive series; nuclear bindings energy, nuclear reaction, fission and fusion, radioactive isotopes and their uses.
4. Electronic theory of valency, Elementary ideas about sigma and pi-binda, hybridization and directional nature of covalent bonds. Shapes of simple molecules, bond order and bond length.
5. Oxidation states and osidation number, Common redox reactions; Ionic equations. Bronsted and lewis theories of acids and bases.
6. Chemistry of common elements and their compounds, treated from the point of view of periodic classification.
7. Principles of extraction of metals, as illustrated by sodium, copper, aluminium, iron and nickel.
8. Whemer’s theories of coordination compounds and types of isomerism in 6 and 4 coordinate complexes. Role of coordination compounds in nature, common metallurgical and analytical operations.
9. Structures of diborane, aluminium chloride, ferrocene alkyl magnesium halides,dicholodiamineplatinum and xenon chloride.
10. Common ion effect, solubility product and their applications in qualitative inorganicanalysis.

SECTION B :-

Election displacements: inductive, mesomeric and hyperconjugaive effects - effects of structure on dissociation constants of acids and bases - bond formation and bond fission of covalen bonds - reaction intermediates - carbonations, carbanionsm, free radicals and carbenes nucleophiles and electrophiles. Alkanes, alkenes and alkyes - petroleum as a source of organic compounds - simple deralives of alphatic compounds; halides, alcohaols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, esters, acid acid cholorides, amodes, anthydrides, eithers, amines and nitro compounds monohydroxy, ketonic and amino acids - griganaar reagents - active methyl one group - malonic and acotoaeetic esters and their synthetic uses - unsaturated acides.

STEREO CHEMISTRY:- elements of synetry, chirality optical isomerism of lactic and tartaric acids, D.L. notation RS. - notation of compounds containing - chiral centers, concept of information Tischer, sawhors and Newman projections of butanes - 23 - dialogeometrical isomerism of maleic and fumaric acids, x and z notation of geometrical isomers.

CARBOHYDRATES:- Classification and general reactions, structures of glucose, fructose and sucrose, general idea on the chemistry of starch and cellulose. Benzene and common monofunctional benezenoid compounds concept of aromatericity as applied to benzene, naphthalene and pyrolecorientation influence in aromatic substitution - Chemistry and uses of diazonium salts. Elementary idea of the chemistry of oils, facts, proteins and vitamins - their role in nutrition and industry.

Basic principle underlying spectral techniques (UV - Visible, IR. Raman and NMR)

SECTION C :-

Kinetic theory of gasses and gas law. Mazwells law of distribution and velocitities, Vander vans equitio law of corresponding states. Specific heat of gases, ratio CP/CV.

THERMODYNAMICS :- The first law of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic expansion. Enthaply, heat capacities and thermochemistry, Heats of reaction, Calculation of bond energies, Kirchffs equation. Criteria for spontaneous changes. Second law of thermodynamics, Entroph, Free energy, Criteria for chemical equilibrium.

SOLUTIONS:- Osmotic pressure, Lowering of vapour preasure, depression of freezing point and elevation of point. Determination of molecular weight in solution. Association and disassociation of solutes.

CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIA :- Law of mass action and its application to homogeneous and heterogenous equilibria; Le Chatelier principle and its application to chemical equilibria.

CHEMICAL KINETICS:- Molecularity and order of reaction, First order and second order reaction. Temperature coefficient and energy of activation. Collision theory of reaction rates Qualitative theory of activated complex.

ELECTRO CHEMISTRY :- Farady’s laws of electrolytes conductivity of an electrolyte, Equivalent conductivity and its variation with dilution. Solubility of sporingly soluble salts. Electrolytic disassociation. Ostwald’s dilution law, anomaly of strong electrolytes. Solubility product, Strength of acids and basis, Hydrolysis of Salts, Hydrogen ion concentration Buffer action, Theory of indicators.

REVERSIBLE CELLS :- Standard hydrogen and Claomal electrodes. Redox potential Concentration cells, ionic product of water, potentiometric titrations.

PHASE RULE :- Explanation of terms involved. Application to one and two component systems, Distribution Law.

COLLIODS :- General nature of colloidal solutions and their classification, Coagulation, Protective action and gold number absorption.
Catalysis :- Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis Promoters and Poisons.

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