Organic Chemistry — GATE Chemistry (CY)
Organic Chemistry for GATE Chemistry (CY): all 11 topics, with study resources and previous year questions for each.
Topics in Organic Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry: General Concepts (GATE CY) — General Concepts: Structure dependence on properties such as basicity and acidity. Role of aromatic stability on physical properties of organic compounds.
- Stereochemistry (GATE CY) — Stereochemistry: Chirality and symmetry of organic molecules with or without chiral centres and determination of their absolute configurations and optical puri…
- Reaction Mechanisms (GATE CY) — Reaction Mechanisms: Basic mechanistic concepts and energy profile diagrams - kinetics versus thermodynamic control, Hammond’s postulate and Curtin-Hammett pri…
- Types of Reactions (GATE CY) — Types of Reactions: Nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution reactions (both aromatic and aliphatic). Addition reactions to carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroa…
- Organic Synthesis (GATE CY) — Organic Synthesis: Synthesis, reactions, mechanisms and selectivity involving the following classes of compounds – alkenes, alkynes, arenes, alcohols, phenols,…
- Organic Chemistry: Oxidation (GATE CY) — Oxidation: Oxidation of alcohols involving metal and non-metal-based (chromium, manganese, DMSO, and hypervalent iodine) reagents. Peracid oxidation of alkenes…
- Organic Chemistry: Reduction (GATE CY) — Reduction: Catalytic homogeneous and heterogeneous hydrogenation. Metal based reductions using Li/Na in liquid ammonia, magnesium, zinc, titanium, and samarium…
- Pericyclic Reactions and Photochemistry (GATE CY) — Pericyclic Reactions and Photochemistry: Electrocyclic, cycloaddition and sigmatropic reactions. Diels-Alder reaction, Claisen and Cope rearrangements and thei…
- Heterocyclic Compounds (GATE CY) — Heterocyclic Compounds: Nomenclature of mono- and bicyclic, as well as mono- and di-heteroatomic compounds, Structure, preparation, properties and reactions of…
- Biomolecules (GATE CY) — Biomolecules: Structure, properties and reactions of mono- and di-saccharides, physicochemical properties of amino acids, chemical synthesis of peptides, chemi…
- Experimental Techniques in Organic Chemistry (GATE CY) — Experimental Techniques in Organic Chemistry: Optical rotation (polarimetry). Application of various chromatographic techniques such as thin-layer, column, HPL…