Details of CH4205 (Spring 2025)
| Level: 4 | Type: Theory | Credits: 4.0 |
| Course Code | Course Name | Instructor(s) |
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| CH4205 | Advanced Main Group and Organometallic Chemistry | Debabrata Mukherjee, Swadhin Kumar Mandal |
| Syllabus |
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| Background: Stability of organometallics, various bonding in organometllic compounds,
isolobal analogy, (4L) Organometallic reaction mechanism.Oxidative addition and reductive elimination; Insertion and elimination reaction, Addition and abstraction.(2L) Strong bond activation and Catalysis. C-H, C-C, and N=N bond activation and catalysis; Shilovs system; Methane functionalization; CO2 activation functionalization and catalysis (4L) Engineering in Catalysis: SHOP Process, Tandem catalysis, Relay Catalysis, Merge Catalysis, Single electron transfer catalysis, Photocatalysis (6L) Heterogeneous catalysis: Reppe Catalysis, Fisher Tropsh Process, Water gas shift reaction, supported catalysis (2L) Asymmetric catalysis.Knowles and Noyori's Hydrogenation;Sharpless' epoxidation. (2L) Main Group catalysis.B(C6F5)3: a special Lewis acid and its catalytic applications; Catalysis by N-heterocyclic carbenes, catalysis by alkaline earth metals and alkali metals. (4L) Advanced main group organometallic reagents. nBuNa, PhCH2K,Turbo Grignard and TurboHauser bases;Heavy Grignard reagents. (2L) Main group hydrides. Amineborane adducts as hydrogen storage materials and their catalytic dehydrogenation; Molecular metal hydrides and their application in catalytic small molecule activation and other reductive transformations (hydrosilylation, hydroboration, and hydrogenation). (6L) Subvalent compounds and metal-element multiple bonds.Low-valent compounds of Group 14 (Si, Ge, Sn, Pb); Silylene, germylene, stannylene and their N-heterocyclic versions; Si=Si, Ge=Ge, Sn=Sn, Pb=Pb, Ge=Ge, Sn=Sn bonds; TM=E bonds (TM = transition metal; E = Si, Ge, Sn, Pb);P=C, P=C, P=P, As=As, Sb=Sb, Bi=Bi, As=Ge bonds; Bi(I) compounds.(6L) |
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Course Credit Options
| Sl. No. | Programme | Semester No | Course Choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IP | 2 | Not Allowed |
| 2 | IP | 4 | Not Allowed |
| 3 | IP | 6 | Not Allowed |
| 4 | MP | 2 | Core |
| 5 | MP | 4 | Not Allowed |
| 6 | MR | 2 | Not Allowed |
| 7 | MR | 4 | Not Allowed |
| 8 | MS | 10 | Not Allowed |
| 9 | MS | 4 | Not Allowed |
| 10 | MS | 6 | Not Allowed |
| 11 | MS | 8 | Elective |
| 12 | RS | 1 | Elective |
| 13 | RS | 2 | Elective |