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Reduced Syllabus of JEE Main 2024
CHEMISTRY
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
UNIT I: SOME BASIC CONCEPTS IN CHEMISTRY
Matter and its nature, Dalton’s atomic theory: Concept of atom, molecule, element, and
compound: i i i i i
‘significant figures-S.I.Units,-dimensional-analysis: Laws of chemical combination; Atomic
and molecular masses, mole concept, molar mass, percentage composition, empirical and
‘molecular formulae: Chemical equations and stoichiometry.
unirzsratesormarrer — Chaffee Removed
Classification of matter into solid, liquid, and gascous states.
Gaseous State!
Measurable properties of gases: Gas laws - By
diffusion. Avogadro's law, Dalton’s law of
e's law, Charle’s law. Graham's law of
tal pressure; Concept of Absolute scale of
of gases (only postulates)/Concept of average,
ss, devi from Ideal behaviour,
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falent and met;
ww and its applications: Unit’cell and lattices,
packing in sof bee ‘hep lattices), voids, calculations involving tmit cell parameters,
‘an imperfection in solids; Electrical and magnetic properties.
UNIT 3: ATOMIC STRUCTURE
; Nature of electromagnetic
radiation, photoelectric effect; Spectrum of the hydrogen atom, Bohr model of hydrogen atom
- its postulates, derivation of the relations for the energy of the electron and radii ofthe different
orbits, limitations of Bohr’s model; Dual nature of matter, de Broglie’s relationship. Heisenberg
uncertainty principle. Elementary ideas of quantum mechanics, quantum mechanics, the
quantum mechanical model of the atom, its important features. Concept of atomic orbitals as
one-electron wave functions: Variation of Y and ?* with r for 1s and 2s orbitals; various
quantum numbers (principal, angular momentum, and magnetic quantum numbers) and their
significance; shapes of s, p, and d - orbitals, electron spin and spin quantum number: Rules for
filling electrons in orbitals — Aufbau principle. Pauli's exclusion principle and Hund! rule,
electronic configuration of elements, extra stability of half-filled and completely filled orbitals,
UNIT 4: CHEMICAL BONDING AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
Kossel - Lewis approach to chemical bond formation, the concept of ionic and covalent bonds.Reduced Syllabus of JEE Main 2024
UNIT
onic Bonding: Formation of ionic bonds, factors affecting the formation of ionic bonds;
calculation of lattice enthalpy.
Covalent Bonding: Concept of electronegativity. Fajan’s rule, dipole moment: Valence Shell
Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR ) theory and shapes of simple molecules.
Quantum mechanical approach to covalent bonding: Valence bond theory - its important
features, the concept of hybridization involving s, p, and d orbitals; Resonance.
Molecular Orbital Theory - Its important features. LCAOs, types of molecular orbitals
(bonding, antibonding), sigma and pi-bonds, molecular orbital electronic configurations of
homonuclear diatomic molecules, the concept of bond order, bond length, and bond energy.
Elementary idea of metallic bonding, Hydrogen bonding and its applications.
HEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS
Fundamentals of thermodynamics: System and surroundings, extensive and intensive
properties, state funetionsytypes oF processes.
‘The first law of thermodynamies - Concept of work, heat internal energy and enthalpy, heat
capacity, molar heat capacity; Hess's law of constant heat summation; Enthalpies of bond
dissociation, combustion, formation, atomization, sublimation, phase transition, hydration,
ionization, and solution
‘The second law of thermodynamics - Spontaneity of processes; AS of the universe and AG
of the system as criteria for spontaneity. AG® (Standard Gibbs energy change) and equilibrium
constant.
UNIT 6: SOLUTIONS
Different methods for expressing the concentration of solution - molality, molarity, mole
fraction, percentage (by volume and mass both), the vapour pressure of solutions and Raoult's
Law - Ideal and non-ideal solutions, vapour pressure - composition, plots for ideal and non-
ideal solutions; Colligative properties of dilute solutions - a relative lowering of vapour
pressure, depression of freezing point, the elevation of boiling point and osmotic pressure;
Determination of molecular mass using colligative properties; Abnormal value of molar mass,
van't Hoff factor and its significance.
UNIT 7: EQUILIBRIUM
Meaning of equilibrium, the concept of dynamic equilibrium.
Equilibria involving physical processes: Solid-liquid, liquid - gas and solid-gas equilibria,
Henry's law. General characteristics of equilibrium involving physical processes.
Eq mm involving chemical processes: Law of chemical equilibrium, equilibrium
constants (Kp and Ke) and their significance, the significance of AG and AG® in chemical
equilibrium, factors affecting equilibrium concentration, pressure, temperature, the effect of
catalyst; Le Chatelier’s principle.
Tonic equilibrium: Weak and strong electrolytes, ionization of electrolytes, various concepts
of acids and bases (Arrhenius. Bronsted - Lowry and Lewis) and their ionization, acid-baseReduced Syllabus of JEE Main 2024
equilibria (including multistage ionization) and ionization constants, ionization of water. pH
scale, common ion effect, hydrolysis of salts and pH of their solutions, the solubility of
sparingly soluble salts and solubility products, buffer solutions,
UNIT 8: REDOX REACTIONS AND ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Electronic concepts of oxidation and reduction, redox reactions, oxidation number, rules for
assigning oxidation number, balancing of redox reactions.
Electrolytic and metallic conduction, conductance in electrolytic solutions, molar
conductivities and their variation with concentration: Kohlrausch’s law and its applications.
Electrochemical cells - Electrolytic and Galvanic cells, different types of electrodes, electrode
potentials including standard electrode potential, half - cell and cell reactions, emf of a
Galvanic cell and its measurement: Nernst equation and its applications; Relationship between
cell potential and Gibbs energy change: Dry cell and lead accumulator; Fuel cells,
UNIT 9: CHEMICAL KINETICS
Rate of a chemical reaction, factors affecting the rate of reactions: concentration, temperature,
pressure, and catalyst; elementary and complex reactions, order and molecularity of reactions,
rate law, rate constant and its units, differential and integral forms of zero and first-order
reactions, their characteristics and half-lives, the effect of temperature on the rate of reactions,
Arshenius theory, activation energy and its calculation, collision theory of bimolecular gascous
reactions (no derivation)
(UNIT 10: SURFACE CHEMISTRY. Chapter Adita
Adsorption Physisorption and chemisorption and their characteristics, factors affecting
adsonption of gases on solids - Freundlich and Langmuir adsorption isotherms, adsorption from
solutions.
Catalysis - Homogencous and heterogeneous, activity and selectivity of solid catalysts, enzyme
catalysis, and its mechanism,
Colloidal state- distinction among true solutions, colloids, and suspensions, classification of
colloids - lyophilic. Iyophobic; multi-molecular. mactomolecular and associated colloids
(micelles), preparation and properties of colloids - Tyndall effect. Brownian movement,
electrophoresis, dialysis, coagulation, and flocculation: Emulsions and their characteristics.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
UNIT 11: CLASSIFICATION OF ELEMENTS AND PERIODICITY IN PROPERTIES
UNIT 12: GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES OF ISOLATIO!
Modem periodic law and present form of the periodic table, s, p. d and f block elements,
periodic trends in properties of elements atomic and ionic radii, ionization enthalpy, electron
gain enthalpy, valence, oxidation states, and chemical reactivity. D
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F METALS,
Modes of occurrence of elements in nature, minerals, ores; Steps involved inthe extraction of
‘metals - concentration, reduction (chemical and electrolytic methods), and refining with special
reference to the extraction of Al. Cu, Zn, and Fe; Thermodynamic and electrochemical
principles involved in the extraction of metsReduced Syllabus of JEE Main 2024
“UNIT 13: HYDROGEN dite
Position of hydrogen in periodic table, isotopes, preparation, properties and uses of hydrogen;
Physical and chemical properties of water and heavy water; Structure, preparation, reactions,
and uses of hydrogen peroxide; Classification of hydrides - ionic, covalent, and interstitial;
Hydrogen as a fuel.
UNIT 14: § BLOCK ELEMENTS (ALKALI AND ALKALINE EARTH METALS)
Group -1 and 2 Elements Yopiw deleted
General introduction, electronic Configuration, and general trends in physical and chemical
properties of elements, anomalous properties of the first element of each group, diagonal
relationships. «
Preparation and properties of some important compounds - sodium. carbonate‘and sodium
hydroxide and sodium hydrogen carbonate; Industrial uses of lime, limestone: Plaster of Paris
and cement: Biological significance of Na, K. Mg, and Ca.
UNIT 15: P- BLOCK ELEMENTS
Group -13 to Group 18 Elements
General Introduetion: Electronic configuration and general trends in physical and chemical
properties of elements across the periods and down the groups; unique behaviour of the first
clement in each group.
Groupwise study of the p - block elements Group -13
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Preparation, properties, and.tises of boron and aluminum; Structure, properties, and uses of
borax, boric acid, diborane, boron trifluoride, aluminum chloride, and alums.
Group -14
The tendency for catenation; Structure, properties, and uses of Allotropes and oxides of carbon,
silicon tetrachloride, silicates, zeolites, and silicones.
Groans aM, his pothon didtted,
Properties and uses of nitrogen and phosphorus; Allotropkic forms of phosphorus; Preparation,
properties, structure, and uses of ammonia, nitric acid, phosphine, and phosphorus halides,
(Ch. PCIs); Structures of oxides and oxoacids of nitrogen and phosphorus.
Group -16
Preparation, properties, structures, and uses of ozone: Allotropie forms of sulphur; Preparation,
properties, structures, and uses of sulphuric acid (including its industrial preparation);
Structures of oxoacids of sulphur.
Group-17
Preparation, properties, and uses of hydrochloric acid; Trends in the acidic nature of hydrogen
halides; Structures of Interhalogen compounds and oxides and oxoacids of halogens.
Group-18Reduced Syllabus of JEE Main 2024
Occurrence and uses of noble gases; Structures of fluorides and oxides of xenon,
UNIT 16: d~and BLOCK ELEMENTS — Yi ohonge
Transition Elements
General introduction, electronic configuration, occurrence and characteristics, general trends
in properties of the first-row transition elements - physical properties, ionization enthalpy,
oxidation states, atomic radii, colour, catalytic behaviour, magnetic properties, complex
formation, interstitial compounds, alloy formation; Preparation, properties, and uses of
K.CroOr, and KMnO,
Inner Transition Elements
Lanthanoids - Electronic configuration, oxidation states, and lanthanoid contraction,
Actinoids - Electronic configuration and oxidation states,
UNIT 17: CO-ORDINATION COMPOUNDS //o charge
Introduction to coordination compounds. Wemer's theory; ligands, coordination number,
denticity, chelation; IUPAC nomenclature of mononuclear co-ordination compounds,
isomerism; Bonding- Valence bond approach and basic ideas of Crystal field theory, colour and
magnetic properties; Importance of co-ordination compounds (in qualitative analysis,
extraction of metals and in biological systems).
“UNIT 18: ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Environmental pollution - Atmospheric, water. and soil. hapter
Atmospheric pollution - Tropospheric and Stratospheric Adee
‘Tropospheric pollutants - Gaseous pollutants: Oxides of carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur,
hydrocarbons; their sources, harmful effects, and prevention; Greenhouse effect and Global
warming: Acid rain;
Particulate pollutants: Smoke, dust, smog, fumes, mist; their sources, harmful effects, and
prevention.
Stratospheric pollution- Formation and breakdown of ozone, depletion of the ozone layer ~
its mechanism and effects.
Water Pollution - Major pollutants such as. pathogens, organic wastes, and chemical
pollutants; their harmful effeets and prevention.
Soil pollution - Major pollutants such as; Pesticides (insecticides. herbicides and fungicides),
their harmful effects, and prevention, Strategies to control environmental pollution
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
UNIT 19: PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF ORGANIC
POUNDS
Purification - Crystallization, sublimation, distillation, differential extrgtion, and
chromatography - principles and their applications.Reduced Syllabus of JEE Main 2024
UNIT 20:SOME BASI
Qualitative analysis - Detection of nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, and halogens.
Quantitative analysis (basic principles only) - Estimation of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen,
halogens, sulphur, phosphorus.
Calculations of empirical formulae and molecular formulae: Numerical problems in organic
quantitative analysis,
PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 0 Forge
Tetravalency of carbon: Shapes of simple molecules - hybridization (s and p): Classification of
organic compounds based on functional groups: and those containing halogens, oxygen,
nitrogen, and sulphur; Homologous series: [somerism - structural and stereoisomerism,
Nomenclature (Trivial and TUPAC)
Covalent bond fission - Homolytic and heterolytic: free radicals, carbocations, and carbanions;
stability of carbocations and free radicals, clectrophiles, and nucleophiles.
Electronic displacement in a covalent bond
- Inductive effect, electromeric effect, resonance, and hyperconjugation.
‘Common types of organic reactions- Substitution, addition, elimination, and rearrangement.
untTs21: HYDROCARBONS /Yp (A
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Classification, isomer
and reactions,
sm, IUPAC nomenclature, general methods of preparation, properties,
Alkanes - Conformations: Sawhorse and Newman projections (of ethane): Mechanism of
halogenation of alkanes,
Alkenes - Geometrical isomerism: Mechanism of electrophilic addition: addition of hydrogen,
halogens, water, hydrogen halides (Markownikoffs and peroxide effect): Ozonolysis and
polymerization.
Alkynes - Acidic character: Addition of hydrogen, halogens, water, and hydrogen halides
Polymerization.
Aromatic hydrocarbons - Nomenclature, benzene - structure and aromaticity: Mechanism of
jon: halogenation, nitration,
Friedel - Craft's alkylation and acylation, directive influence of the funetional group in mono-
substituted benzene.
mM Gorge
General methods of preparation, properties, and reactions; Nature of C-X bond; Mechanisms
of substitution reactions
22: ORGANIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING HALOG
Uses; Environmental effects of chloroform, iodoform freons, and DDT.
UNIT 23: ORGANIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING OXYGEN __/,, Garg zi
General methods of preparation, properties, reactions, and uses.Reduced Syllabus of JEE Main 2024
ALCOHOLS, PHENOLS, AND ETHERS
Alcohols: Identification of primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols: mechanism of
dehydration
Phenols: Acidic nature, electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation. nitration and
sulphonation, Reimer - Tiemann reaction.
Ether
structure.
Aldehyde and Ketones: Nature of carbonyl group; Nucleophilic addition to >C=O group,
relative reactivities of aldehydes and ketones; Important reactions such as - Nucleophilic
addition reactions (addition of HCN. NHb, and its derivatives), Grignard reagent; oxidation:
reduction (Wolf Kishner and Clemmensen); the acidity of a-hydrogen. aldol condensation,
Cannizzaro reaction. Haloform reaction, Chemical tests to distinguish between aldehydes and
Ketones,
Carboxylic Acids
Acidic strength and factors affecting it,
UNIT 24: ORGANIC COMPOUNDS CONTAINING NITROGEN /Y eee
General methods of preparation. Properties, reactions, and uses.
Amines: Nomenclature, classification structure, basic cf
primary, secondary, and tertiary a
acter, and identification of
's and their basic character.
Diazonium Salts: Importance in synthetic organic chemistry.
UNIT 25: POLYMERS = Chahfee Atted
UNIT 26: BIOMOLECULES
ods of polymerization, -
General introduction and importance of biomolecules.
CARBOHYDRATES - Classification; aldoses and ketoses: monosaccharides (glucose and
fructose) and constituent monosaccharides of oligosaccharides (sucrose, lactose, and maltose).
PROTEINS - Elementary Idea of a-amino acids, peptide bond, polypeptides. Proteins
primary, secondary, tertiary, and quatemary structure (qualitative idea only), denaturation of
proteins, enzymes.
VITAMINS - Classification and functions.
NUCLEIC ACIDS — Chemical constitution of DNA and RNA.
Biological functions of nucleic acids. +- foyn7ones
UNIT 27: CHEMISTRY IN EVERYDAY LIFEReduced Syllabus of JEE Main 2024
UNIT 28: PRINCIPLES RELATED TO PRACTICAL CHEM!
Chemicals in Medicines - Analgesics, tranquilizers, antiseptics, disinfectants, antimicrobials,
anti-fertilty drugs, antibiotics, antacids, Anti-histamines -their meaning and common
examples. hopter Atted
Chemicals in food - Preservatives, artificial sweetening agents - common examples.
Cleansing Agents - Soaps and detergents, cleansing action
STRY
Detection of extra elements (Nitrogen, Sulphur, halogens) in organic compounds; Detection of
the following functional groups; hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and
ketones) carboxyl, and amino groups in organic compounds,
‘The chemistry involved in the preparation of the following:
Inorganic compounds; Mohr’s salt, potash alum.
Organic compounds: Acetanilide, p-nitro acetanilide, aniline yellow, iodoform.
‘The chemistry involved in the titrimetric exercises — Acids, bases and the use of indicators,
oxalic-acid vs KMnOy, Moht’s salt vs KMnOs
Chemical principles involved in the qualitative salt analysis:
Cations — Pb?" Cu" AL", Fe™, Zn?*, Ni?", Ca’, Ba", Mg”, NH
Anions- C03”, S*,S03", %°>, NO*, Cl, Br, (Insoluble salts excluded).
Chemical principles involved in the following experiments:
1. Enthalpy of solution of CuSOs
2. Enthalpy of neutralization of strong acid and strong base
3. Preparation of lyophilic and lyophobic sols.
4, Kinetic study of the reaction of iodide ions with hydrogen peroxide at room temperature,
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