Page 126 - CatalogNEP-PS

5. Organometallic compounds of Transition Metal-Crabtree
6. Chemistry of the Elements – Greenwood and Earnshaw
7. Homogeneous transition metal catalysis – Christopher Masters
8. Homogeneous Catalysis – Parshall
9. Principles and Application of Homogeneous Catalysis – Nakamura and Tsutsui
10. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry Vol. 15 – Lipard. (Transition metal clusters – R.B. King)
11. Text Book of Qualitative Inorganic Analysis – A.I. Vogel
12. Synthetic Coordination Chemistry: Principles and Practice- J.A. Davies, C.M.
Hockensmith, V.Y. Kukushkin and Y.N. Kukushkin.

Chem.415 Solutions, Colligative Properties and Chemistry of
Nanomaterials 3+1

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Objectives of this course are:
 to explain various adsorption processes at solid – gas interface and solid-liquid interfaces.
 to give information about the solution properties and interfacial behaviour of surfactants
and their practical applications
 to familiarize the students with various theories and laws of electrochemistry

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

The student will be able to
 apply the phenomenon of adsorption to derive various expressions and equations.
 solve problems by using suitable expressions and equations involving adsorption
 understand the applications of nano chemistry in fabricating some useful nanomaterials.

THEORY (45 Hours)

UNIT –I (11 Hours)

Dilute solutions: Lowering of vapour pressure, Raoult‘s and Henry‘s Law and their applications,
Excess thermodynamic functions, thermodynamic derivation using chemical potential to derive
relations between the four colligative properties (relative lowering in vapour pressure, elevation in
boiling point, depression in freezing point, osmotic pressure) and amount of solute. Applications
in calculating molar masses of normal, dissociated, and associated solutes in solution.
UNIT –II (12 Hours)

Solution and Interfacial Behaviour of Surfactants: Definition and classification of surfactants.
Solution properties of surfactants: micelle formation, critical micelle concentration (CMC),
dependence of CMC on chain length of the surfactant, micelle shape and size. Thermodynamics
of micelle formation, hydrophobic effect (a qualitative view only). Aggregation at high surfactant
concentration (a qualitative aspect) to micelles. Surface tension and detergent. Practical
application of surfactants.

UNIT –III (11 Hours)
Electrochemistry:Quantitative treatment of Debye - Hückel and Debye-Hückel-Onsagar (D-H-O)
theory of conductance of electrolyte solution their limitations and modifications. Pair-wise
association of ions (Bjerrum and Fuoss treatment). Determination of association constant (Ka)
from Debye – Huckel Limiting Law. Extended Debye – Huckel Law. Qualitative treatment of ion
– solvent interactions (ion solvation).

UNIT –IV (11 Hours)

111