B.Sc., Zoology (Honours)

CHEMISTRY

What is Chemistry?

It is the brach of science that deals with the composition, structure and properties of substances and its applications to the reactions to form new substances.

Why Chemistry?

• It is the one of the fundamental source to the world.
• Chemistry touches almost every aspect of daily life.
• It meets the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter health, energy and clean air water and soil.

Chemistry in our College

• Chemistry is the largest department in the college fully equipped with chemicals including hundreds of Acids, Salts, Bases, Indicators and measuring instrumentation.
• Chemistry lab fully equipped with
  • Inorganic, Organic & Physical chemistry lab
  • Instrumentation – PH meters, Conductometer, Potentiometer, Digital weighing machine, Script operator.
• The faculties from this department are also involved in giving guest lecturers, serving as selection committee members to recruit for local and other reputed Parma companies.
• Ozone day celebrations with information projects are being conducting in the campus.

What will you study?

Syllabus

In the First Year

• Inorganic Chemistry:p-Block Elements, d-Block Elements, f-Block Elements, Theories of Bonding in Metals
• Organic Chemistry:Re-capitulation of basics of Origanic Chemistry, Carban-Carban single and double bonds, Benzene & Reactivity
• Physical Chemistry:States of matter, Solutions ionic equilibrium & Dilute solutions
• General Chemistry:Surface Chemistry & Chemical Bonding, Stereo chemistry of carban compounds

In the Second Year

• Inorganic Chemsitry:Co-ordination chemistry, Inorganic Reaction Mechanism, Stability of complexes, Bio-inorganic Chemistry
• Organic Chemistry:Helogen, Alcohols, Carbonyl compounds and Carboxylic acids, Nitrogen Compounds, Amino acicds and Carbohydreds.
• General Chemistry:Spectroscopy-Rotational, Vibrational, Electronic and NMR, Application of Spectroscopy on simple organic molicules.
• Physics Chemistry:Thermo Dynamics, Chemical Kinetics, Photo Chemistry

What Next?

• The B.Sc chemistry graduates have many options for their higher studies like master’s degree in the same.
• Some of the higher study options after B.Sc Chemistry are:
  • M.Sc. in Chemistry
  • M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry
  • M.Sc. in Drug Chemistry
  • M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry
  • M.Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry
  • M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry
  • M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Career in Chemistry

Employment Areas for Bachelor of Science [BSc] Chemistry – BSc Chemistry graduates can find a career in Chemistry in the following sectors –

• Chemical Laboratories
• Clinical Laboratories
• Health Care Industry
• Pharmaceutical Companies
• Cosmetics and Perfume Industry
• Military Hospitals
• Fertilizer Plants
• Forensic Labs

Bio-Chemistry

Bio-molecules and Enzymology:

Carbohydrates and Lipids, Amino acids, Peptides and Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Porphyrins and Enzymology.

Metabolism and Biochemical Techniques:

Bio-energetics and Biological Oxidations, Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism, Metabolism of Nitrogen Compounds and Biochemical Techniques

Physiology, Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology:

Physiology, Nutritional Biochemistry, Clinical Biochemistry, Immunology-Microbiology and Molecular Biology Microbiology, DNA Replication and Transcription, Protein Synthesis and Regulation of Gene Expression and Recombinant-DNA Technology

Bio-Technolgoy

Cell Biology and Genetics:

Cell Structure, Function and Cell Division, Mendel’s Laws and Mechanism of Inheritance, Structure and Function of Nucleic Acids, Concepts of Biostatistics and Bio-informatics

Biological Chemistry and Microbiology:

Bio-molecules, Intermediary Metabolism, Fundamentals of Microbiology, Principles and Applications of Biophysical Techniques.

Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering and Immu-nology:

Gene and Genome organization, Gene expression and Gene Regulation, Recombinant DNA Technology, Basics of Immunology-Applications of Biotechnology: Animal Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology, Industrial Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology.