- Department of Chemistry, IIT Hyderabad
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- office@chy.iith.ac.in
Know our environment (atmosphere composition and behavior, ecosystem, flow of energy and nutrient cycles, sustainability), Know about global warming, concise overviews of ozone depletion and atmospheric pollutants. Organic and Inorganic chemicals in environment and their impact on environment, a project on environment related topic.
Introduction to Chemical kinetics, Basics in Electrochemistry: Electrochemical Principles and Reactions, Basic concepts of electrochemical cells and batteries, Historical background of quantum hypothesis, Wave equation, Postulates, Schrodinger equation and introduction to simple solvable problems.
Advanced insights into chemical kinetics including Collision theory of reaction rates, Transition State Theory, Energy Storage Systems (e.g. Lead-Acid, Lithium Ion Batteries, Fuel Cells and Supercapacitors): fundamentals to applications, detailed understanding of Corrosion, electroplating, electroless plating, Particle in box, Harmonic Oscillator, Rigid rotor, Vibrational and rotational spectroscopy, Approximate methods, Atomic and molecular orbitals, Hybrid orbitals, Chemical bonding.
More about environment (chemistry of lithosphere, energy balance, sustainability and recycle), More on global warming (infrared absorption, molecular vibration, atmospheric window, residence time of greenhouse gases, evidences and effects of global warming), Deeper analysis of atmospheric pollution (Chemistry of CO, NOx, VOCs, SO2, Industrial smog, photochemical smog), Ozone depletion (production, catalytic destruction), Fate of organic/inorganic chemicals in natural and engineered systems (fate of polymers after use, detergents, synthetic surfactants insecticides, pesticides etc. after use), impact on physical-chemical properties of environmentally relevant compounds, Aspects of transformations in atmosphere (microbial degradation of organics- mechanism of action of DDT or analogues, environmental degradation of polymers, atmospheric lifetime, toxicity), Future challenges (CO2 sequestering, Nuclear energy), a project on environment related topic
Basic chemistry related experiments: synthesis and characterization of organic molecules such as paracetamol, aspirin and acetanilide; Chemical analysis of organic compound; quantitative experiments on the estimation of phenol, sodium in cement, percentage of iron content in haematite; Determination of Hardness of Water; Synthesis of potash alum from scrap aluminium a recycling of aluminum waste, experiments on reaction kinetics; Phase Rule; Acid Strength in Citrus Fruit; Formation Constant of KI3