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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2023/2024

Introduction to Environmental Management: Sustainable Assessment Weightage:
development, Environmental quality act (1974), Environmental Continuous assessment: 40%
management strategies, Environmental impact assessment (EIA). Final examination: 60%

Assessment Weightage: SIC3037 BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Continuous assessment: 50%
Final examination: 50% Identify the use of metals in biological processes, therapeutic and diagnostic
agents; cancer (definition, drugs, mechanism of action); diabetes mellitus
SIC3033 NATURAL PRODUCTS AND BIOSYNTHESIS (definition, drugs, mechanism of action); preparation of metal complexes for
medicinal purpose; structure and activity relationship and other biological
Classification of natural products. Biosynthesis of natural products, applications of metal complexes.
such as alkaloids, terpenoids, flavonoids, lignans and glycosides.
Separation strategies and spectroscopic methods for structural Assessment Weightage:
elucidation of natural products. Biochemical constraints and Continuous assessment: 40%
investigation techniques: biosynthetic reagents, enzymes, Final examination: 60%
biochemical assays and application of isotopic labelling (esp. in
conjunction with 13C NMR) in the study of biosynthetic processes. SIC3038 NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY

Assessment Weightage: Development in nuclear chemistry: Nuclei and isotopes, nuclear mass and nuclear
Continuous assessment: 40% stability, nuclear structures and nuclear models, radioactive decay, natural
Final examination: 60% radioactive elements, radiation absorption, latest breakthrough in nuclear
chemistry.
SIC3034 ORGANIC SYNTHESIS
Nuclear reactions: fission and fusion, interactions of radiation with matters, effects
Retrosynthetic analysis and design of multistep syntheses. Selectivity of radiation on matters, danger of radiation, dosimetry, detection and measurement
in synthesis. Synthesis of acyclic and cyclic compounds. Use of of radiation, production application of radioisotopes, effects of nuclear to
organometallic reagents in syntheses. Asymmetric synthesis; environment.
selected examples from classical and contemporary syntheses. Application: radioisotopes, nuclear reactor and radiology.

Assessment Weightage: Assessment Weightage:
Continuous assessment: 40% Continuous assessment: 40%
Final examination: 60% Final examination: 60%

SIC3035 MECHANISTIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY SIC3039 MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Reactive intermediates in organic chemistry including carbocations, Part A: Structure of Materials
free radicals, carbenes, nitrenes, and radical- ions. Chemistry of free Introduction to different categories of materials.
radicals: reactions and mechanisms of free radicals including Structure of crystalline solids (cubic and hexagonal crystal system).
abstraction, addition, rearrangement, cyclization and fragmentation; Imperfection in crystalline solids (various types of defects in crystalline structure of
applications of radical reactions in organic synthesis; reactions of solids) and atomic diffusion that occurs in solid material during heat treatment.
carbenes, carbenoids, nitrenes, and ion-radicals, and applications in Phase diagram of binary alloy (eutectic and isomorphous systems).
synthesis. Formation, stability, and rearrangements of carbocations; Structure, application and processing of ceramics.
tandem and cascade cyclizations. Mechanistic details of selected
classes of organic reactions such as nucleophilic substitution, Part B: Properties of Materials
hydrolysis, polar rearrangements, electron-transfer reactions, In-depth discussion on various properties of materials. Thermal properties: Heat
photochemical reactions. capacity, thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, thermal stresses.
Magnetic properties: Concept, diamagnetism and paramagnetism,
Pericyclic reactions: molecular orbitals; conservation of orbital ferromagnetism, domain and hysteresis, magnetic anisotropy, magnetic storage
symmetry in concerted reactions; theory (frontier orbital method, use and superconductivity.
of correlation diagrams, aromatic transition state approach) and Optical properties: Light interactions with solids, atomic and electronic interactions,
applications of electrocyclic reactions, sigmatropic rearrangements, refraction, reflection, absorption, transmission, colour, opacity and translucency,
and cycloadditions, including tandem and cascade processes, in application of optical phenomena.
organic synthesis.
Part C: Material Characterization Techniques
Assessment Weightage: Introduction to morphological, structural and physical characterisation of materials.
Continuous assessment: 40% Techniques involved include: X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron
Final examination: 60% microscopy (SEM), Thermal analysis (TGA and DSC), X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy (XPS) and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES)
SIC3036 PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Solid-state NMR spectroscopy

Application of physical organic concepts in the determination of Assessment Weightage:
organic reaction mechanisms; kinetics and thermodynamics; Continuous assessment: 40%
stereochemistry & conformational analysis; solvent effects; non- Final examination: 60%
kinetic and kinetic isotope effects; sonochemistry; organic surface
reactions. Approximation, catalysis in molecules: covalent, general
acid-base and pseudophase.

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