| Mass spectroscopy: Introducing Mass Spectrometry; Ionization methods; Mass analyzers; Identifying the molecular ion; analysis based on ion-molecule chemistry; acidity, basicity, and energy considerations; scope and limitations of different types of mass spectrometry with examples. Mossbauer spectroscopy: Introduction to Nuclear fluorescence, Lamb-Mossbauer effect, Doppler shift in Mossbauer Spectroscopy, Mossbauer Spectroscopy of 57Fe; chemical shift, quadrupole and hyperfine splitting; examples of few iron compounds to probe chemical environment and oxidation states. NMR spectroscopy: Review of principles; spins and lattice; master equations and approach to equilibrium; pulses; vector diagrams; spin echo; brief intro on density matrices; product operator formalism; an intro to 2D. 1H NMR analysis, 13C NMR analysis, 31P NMR spectra of specially transition metal compounds, dynamic NMR spectroscopy, 2D NMR analysis. Biomolecular NMR. X-ray crystallography: Basic Theory, periodicity in crystals, geometric principles of diffraction, Miller indices, Bragg's law, the reciprocal lattice, atomic scattering factor, Ewald sphere, asymmetric unit, unit-cell dimensions, crystal faces, symmetry operations, space groups, phase problem, Friedels law, structure factor, systematic absences, twinning, disorder, crystal nucleation and growth; Demonstration of data collection, solving and refinement by one or two examples in the crystallography lab. |