Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic Chemistry:

TOPICS INDEX:

1.0 Classification of elements:

Periodic Table:

(1) Introduction:

(2) Proust’s Hypothesis:

(3)  Dobereiner’s Law of triads:

(4) Newland’s Law of Octaves:

(5) Lother Meyer’s Curve:

(6) Mendeleev’s Periodic Table:

(7) Modern Periodic Table:

(8) Classification of elements into s, p, d, and f Blocks;

(9) General classification of elements:

(10) Merits and Demerits of Modern Periodic table:

(11) Identification of Periods groups and block of given elements:

(12) Periodicity in Properties:

(13)Periodic Properties:

Topic Cover:

[I]Periodic In Physical Properties:

(1) Atomic density:

(2) Atomic volume:

(3) Melting and boiling Point:

(4) Valency:

(5) Screening or shielding Effect:

(6) Effective Nuclear charge (Z* or Zeff):

(6.1) Slater's Rules: (Estimating the extent of shielding):

(7) Atomic Radius:

(7.1) Covalent radius

(7.2) Metallic radius or Crystal Radius:

(7.3) Vander Waal’s radius or Collision radius:

(8) Ionization potential (Ip)/ Enthalpy:

(8.1) Penetration effect or Power

(9) Electronegativity:

[II] Periodicity in chemical properties:

[III] Periodicity in chemical reactivity:

[IV] Some Important fact about elements of periodic table.

2.0 Molecular Structure and chemical Bonding

2.1.1 Polarity in bonds and dipole moment

2.1.2 Polarityand fajan's rule:

2.2 Bent's rule of hybridisation

2.2 Drago’s rule:no need of hybridization

2.3 Back bonding-theory

2.4 Bridge bonding-multi-centered bond

(3) Hydrogen and Its Compounds

(4) S-Block elements

4.1 Alkali Metals - Physical Properties:
4.2

(5) P-Block elements

5.0 Boron family

5.1 BORON: Preparation:

5.2  Diborane-preparation

5.3  Physical properties diborane

5.4  Chemical properties of Diborane

5.5 Structure of diborane

5.6 Methylation of Diborane:

5.7 Structure of Boron nitride (Inorganic Graphite):

5.8 Structure of "Borazon" (Cubic boron nitride):

5.9 Structure of “Borazine/Borazole”/inorganic Benzene:

5.10 BORIC ACID (H3BO3) and its structural features:

5.11 Borax bead test:

5.0 Carbon family

(5-A) Silicon compounds:

(1) Silicon and Its Compounds:

(2) Silicon Oxide : Silica (SiO2):

(3) Silicon Carbide(SiC): Carborundum:

(4) Silicates (SiO4)-4: salts of silicic acids:

(5) Silicones:(R2SiO with-Si-O-Si- Linkage):

Illustrative Examples:

(1) Why are the properties of CO2 and SiO2 different?

(2) Why does SiCl4 undergo hydrolysis whereas CCl4 doesn't?

(3) What are most common cyclic meta silicates?

(5) What are the Silicones? Give one example one cyclic Silicone?

(6) What are the hydrolysis products of urea ?

(7) Why CO2 is a gas, but SiO2 is a high melting solid?.

(8) Arrange the silicon halides into decreasing order of Lewis acids Character? SiF4, SiCl4, SiBr4, SiI4

(10) CCl4 can not be hydrolysed but SiCl4 can be. Why?

(11) Silianol (SiH3OH) is more acidic than methanol (CH3OH) why?

(5-B) Carbon Allotropes and compounds:

(1) Structure of Diamond:

(2) Structure of Graphite:

(3) Structure of Fullerences:

Illustrative Examples:

(1) What happened when Graphite treated concentrated acids like HNO3/HF or KMnO4 ?.

(2) Graphite is considere, thermodynamically the most stable allotrope of carbon why ?

(3) Why the C-C bond length in graphite is shorter than C-C bond length of diamond?

(4) All the carbon atom of fullerenes (C60) are equivalent but all C-C bond are not equivalent why ?

(5) Is all the C-C bond length in fullerene is equal ?

(6) How many six membered ( hexagons) and five membered (Pentagons) carbon ring present in (C60) fullerene ?.

(7) Buckminsterfullerene: Bucky Balls: Allotrope of Carbon:

(8) How to prepared Carbon Suboxide (C3O2) ?

(6) d-Block Elements

(7)  Metallurgy- Isolation and Purification of Elements:

7.1 (A)  METALLURGY-INTRODUCTION:

7.2 Alloy and Their Composition and Uses:

7.3 List of Important Inorganic Compounds:

7.4 Leaching-Hydrometallurgy:

7.5 Pyrometallurgy:

7.5.(A) Calcination: Pyrometallurgy:

7.5.(B) Roasting: Pyrometallurgy:

7.5.(C) Smelting: Pyrometallurgy:

7.5.(D) Flux: Pyrometallurgy:

7.5.(E) Slag: Pyrometallurgy:

7.6. Extraction of Iron:

7.8. Extraction of Aluminium:

7.2 (B) Chemical refining methods:

(1) Oxidative refining:

(i) Bessemerisation : Purification of iron from cast Iron or pig iron :

(ii) Cupellation : lead (Pb) present in Silver removed by Cupellation process:

(2) Parting Process:

(3) Polling process: This process is used for the purification of copper and tin.

(4) Electrolytic Refining:

(5) Kroll's Process and Imperial metal industries (IMI) Process of reduction;

(6) Vapour phase refining:

(A) Vapour phase refining : Mond's process:

(B) Vapour phase refining : Van Arkel–De Boer process :

(7) Parke's Process: Desilverisation of lead ;

(8) Pudding process: Used for the manufacture of wrought iron from cast iron:

(8) Coordination Compounds

8.1 Double salt or lattice salts

8.2 Coordination or complex salts

8.3 Structure and terminology

8.4 Nomenclature of complex compounds

8.5 Type of ligands

8.5 Special ligands

8.6  Bonding  in complexes

8.6.1 Werner's theory

8.6.2 Sidwick theory and EAN rule

8.6.3 Valence bond theory

8.6.4 Spectrochemical series

8.6.5 Crystal field theory

8.6.6 Crystal field stabilisation energy (CFSE)

8.7 .1 Organometallic compounds

(9) Acid base concepts (Theories):

(9.1) Arrhenius acid base concept:

(9.2) Bronsted Lowery acid base concept:

(9.3) Lewis acid base concept:

(9.4) The Solvent System (Self or Auto Ionization of Solvent):

(9.5) The Lux-Flood Acids-base concept:

(9.6) The Usanovich Acid-base concept:

(10)  Oxyacids:

(10.1) Boric acid (H3BO3) and its structural features:

(10.2) Silicates (SiO4)-4: salts of silicic acids:

(10.3) Oxyacids of Nitrogen :

(10.4) Oxy-acids of Phosphorous:

(10.5) Oxy acids of Sulphur:

(10.6) Oxy acids of Chlorine:

Important Topics:

(1) What are the oxy-acids?

(2) What are "Ortho" or "Meta" oxyacids?

(3) What are "pyro" oxy acids?

(5) Suffix – “ic-acids” , ‘us-acids” :

(6) Prefix “Hypo-acids”, and “Per-acids”:

(7) How to find oxy-linkage present in a given oxy-acid:

(8) How to pridict cyclic structure given compound/oxy-acid:

(11)-A: Classification of oxides on basis of oxygen content:

(11.1) Normal Oxides:

(11.2) Sesqui Oxides:

(11.3) Mixed Oxides:

(11.4) Peroxides:

(11.5) Super Oxides:

(11.6) Suboxides:

(11.7) Perovskites:

(11.8) Spinel Oxides:

(11.9) Cage like Oxide:

(11)-B: Crystal lattice Structure of Oxides:

(1) Spinel Structure: 

(2) Corundum (Al2O3) type Structure:

(3) Rutile (TiO2) type Structure:

(4) Pervoskite (ABO3) type structure:

Important topics:

(1) Write the Lewis structures of N2O, NO2 and N2O5 :

(2) Structure of phosphorous trioxide (P4O6) and phosphorous pentaoxide (P4O10) :

(3) What is the structure and structural characteristic of dichlorine heptaoxide (Cl2O7)?

(4) What is structure of SO3 (in solid state) at room temperature?

(5) What are the number of sigma bond, pi-bond and lone pair in the lewis dot structure of SO3?

(6) Oxides of Halogens;

(12) Inorganic reactions Mechanism:

(12.1) Hydrolysis reactions:

(12.2) Heating effect on Salts: