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THEORY (45 Hours.)

UNIT-I: General Principles of Metallurgy (6 Hours)

Chief modes of occurrence of metals based on standard electrode potentials. Ellingham diagrams
for reduction of metal oxides using carbon and carbon monoxide as reducing agent. Electrolytic
Reduction, Hydrometallurgy with reference to cyanide process for silver and gold. Methods of
purification of metals: Electrolytic process, Van Arkel-De Boer process, Zone refining. Brief
discussion of metals and alloys used in ancient and medieval India.
UNIT- II: Chemistry of s- Block Elements (15 Hours)

General characteristics: melting point, flame colouration, reducing nature, diagonal relationships
and anomalous behavior of first member of each group. Reactions of alkali and alkaline earth
metals with oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and water.
Common features such as ease of formation, thermal stability, energetics of dissolution, and
solubility of the following alkali and alkaline earth metal compounds: hydrides, oxides, peroxides,
superoxides, carbonates, nitrates, sulphates.
Complex formation tendency of s-block elements; structure of the following complexes: crown
ethers and cryptates of Group I; basic beryllium acetate, beryllium nitrate, EDTA complexes of
calcium and magnesium. Solutions of alkali metals in liquid ammonia and their properties

UNIT-III: Chemistry of p-Block Elements (9 Hours)
Electronic configuration, atomic and ionic size, metallic/non-metallic character, melting point,
ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy, electronegativity, Catenation, Allotropy of C, P, S;
inert pair effect, diagonal relationship between B and Si and anomalous behaviour of first member
of each group.

UNIT – IV: Compounds of p-Block Elements (15 Hours)

Acidic/basic nature, stability, ionic/covalent nature, oxidation/reduction, hydrolysis, action of heat
on the following:Hydrides of Group 13 (only diborane), Group 14, Group 15 (EH3 where E = N,
P,As, Sb, Bi), Group 16 and Group 17. Oxoacids of phosphorus, sulphur and chlorine,
Interhalogen and pseudohalogen compound, Clathrate compounds of noble gases, xenon fluorides
(MO treatment of XeF 2).

PRACTICAL (30 Hours)

1. Redox Titrations
(i) Estimation of Fe(II) with K 2Cr 2O 7 using diphenylamine as internal indicator.
(ii) Estimation of Fe(II) with K 2Cr 2O 7 using N-phenyl anthranilic acid as internal indicator.
(iii) Estimation of Fe(II) with K 2Cr 2O 7 using external indicator.
2. Iodo/Iodimetric Titrations
(i) Estimation of Cu(II) using sodium thiosulphate solution.
(ii) Estimation of K 2Cr 2O 7using sodium thiosulphate solution.
(iii) Estimation of antimony in tartaremetic iodimetrically.
(iv) Estimation of Iodine content in iodized salt.

SUGGUESTED READINGS:

THEORY
1. Lee, J. D.; (2010), Concise Inorganic Chemistry, Wiley India.
2. Huheey, J. E.; Keiter, E. A.; Keiter; R.L.; Medhi, O.K. (2009), Inorganic Chemistry-
Principles of Structure and Reactivity, Pearson Education.

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