PG Syllabus

for conjugated cyclic and acyclic dienes, absorption in aromatic compounds. Woodwards rule for
unsaturated ketones, charge-transfer complexes.
7. Mass Spectrometry : Measurement technique (El, Cl, FD, FAB), Resolution, exact masses of nucleides,
molecular ions, isotope ions, fragment ions of odd and even electron types, rearrangement ions,
factors affecting cleavage patterns, simple cleavage, cleavage at a hetero atom, multi
centre-fragmentation-Mclafferty rearrangements, retro Diels-Alder fragmentation. Structure
elucidation of organic compounds employing mass-spectroscopy. Special methods of GC-MS, High
resolution MS, introduction to radical-anion mass spectroscopy.
8. Mössbauer spectroscopy: Theory, Instrumentation, Applications - isomer shift, nuclear quadrupole
coupling and magnetic hyperfine interaction.
9. Photoelectron spectroscopy: Theory, Instrumentation and Applications-Ionisation potentials, nature
of molecular orbitals and chemical analysis.
Books
1. Spectroscopic Methods in Organic Chemistry by D.H. Williams and I. Fleming, 4th edition, Tata
Mc Graw-Hill Publishing company Ltd., New Delhi.
2. Basic Principles of Spectroscopy by Raymond Chang Mc Graw Hill, New Delhi.
3. Physical Methods in Inorganic Chemistry by R. S. Drago, Affiliated East-West Press Pvt. Ltd., New
Delhi.
4. Spectroscopy of Organic Compounds by P.S. Kalsi, New Age International Publisher, New Delhi.
5. Physical Chemistry by Atkins.