Inorganic Chemistry — GATE Chemistry (CY)
Inorganic Chemistry for GATE Chemistry (CY): all 7 topics, with study resources and previous year questions for each.
Topics in Inorganic Chemistry
- Main Group Elements (GATE CY) — Main Group Elements: Shapes and structures of molecules using VSEPR postulates, Hydrides, halides, oxides, oxoacids, nitrides, sulfides - shapes and reactivity…
- Transition Metals (GATE CY) — Transition Metals: Coordination chemistry – structure and isomerism, theories of bonding (VBT, CFT, and MOT). Metal-metal multiple bonds. Energy level diagrams…
- Lanthanides and Actinides (GATE CY) — Lanthanides and Actinides: Recovery. Periodic properties, spectral and magnetic properties.
- Organometallics (GATE CY) — Organometallics: 18-Electron rule; metal-alkyl, metal-carbonyl, metal-olefin and metal-carbene complexes and metallocenes. Fluxionality in organometallic compl…
- Bioinorganic Chemistry (GATE CY) — Bioinorganic Chemistry: Ion (Na+ and K+) transport, oxygen binding, transport and utilization, electron transfer reactions, nitrogen fixation, metalloenzymes c…
- Inorganic Chemistry: Solids (GATE CY) — Solids: Crystal systems and lattices, Miller planes, crystal packing, crystal defects, Bragg’s law, ionic crystals, structure of AX, AX2, ABX3 type compounds,…
- Instrumental Methods of Analysis (GATE CY) — Instrumental Methods of Analysis: UV-visible, fluorescence and FT-IR spectrophotometry, NMR and ESR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, atomic absorption spectros…