Details of CH1202 (Spring 2024)

Level: 1 Type: Laboratory Credits: 3.0

Course CodeCourse NameInstructor(s)
CH1202 General Chemistry Laboratory Debasish Haldar,
Pradip Kumar Ghorai,
Raja Shunmugam,
Ratheesh K Vijayaraghavan

Syllabus
The experiments -
Analytical/ Physical chemistry
1. Acid neutralization power of common antacids.
2. Estimation of phosphoric acid in soft drinks.
3. Determination of the pKIn Value of an Acid-Base Indicator by Spectrophotometric Method.
Inorganic chemistry
4. Cyano type blue printing (Photochemical reduction of Fe(III) oxalate.
5. Ca2+ EDTA complex: estimation of Ca in milk.
Organic chemistry
6. SN2 reaction: Synthesis of 2-butoxynaphthalene (strawberry flavor) from 2-naphthol and 1-iodobutane
7. Replacement reaction: Synthesis of Iodoform (yellow solid) from ethanol, iodine and NaOH.

8. Coupling: Coupling of benzene diazonium chloride with 2-naphthol (rose red dye)
Computational chemistry
9. Molecular Modeling of Organic/Inorganic Molecules and basics of Electronic Structure Theory.
10. HOMO-LUMO Energy Optimization of a Few Organic/Inorganic Molecules Using Computational
Calculation.

References
Practical Physical Chemistry, B. Viswanathan and P. S. Raghavan, Viva Books, 2012.

Course Credit Options

Sl. No.ProgrammeSemester NoCourse Choice
1 IP 2 Not Allowed
2 IP 4 Not Allowed
3 IP 6 Not Allowed
4 MP 2 Not Allowed
5 MP 4 Not Allowed
6 MR 2 Not Allowed
7 MR 4 Not Allowed
8 MS 2 Core
9 RS 1 Not Allowed
10 RS 2 Not Allowed