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Is the Department of Chemistry of Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) offers M.Sc Course? Please give latest curriculum of M.Sc Course offering by Department of Chemistry of IITM.

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The Department of Chemistry of IIT Madras offers following Courses:

B.Tech
M.SC
Ph.D

The Department offers M.Sc Course. Here I am providing latest curriculum of M.Sc Course for your reference:

IIT Madras M.Sc Chemistry Latest Curriculum

Semester I
CY5011 Transition Metal & Bioinorganic Chemistry
CY5013 Conceptual Organic Chemistry
CY5015 Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics
CY5017 Principles of Quantum Mechanics
CY5019 Organometallic Chemistry
CY5021-Introductory Computational Chemistry Laboratory
CY5023-Organic Chemistry Laboratory

CY5011: Transition Metal and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Transition Metal Chemistry: Structure, bonding and properties of transition metal ligand complexes – ligand, coordination, geometry, coordination number, isomerism (recapitulation) and optical isomerism, HSAB concept, thermodynamic stability, successive and overall stability constants, Irving-William series, chelate and macrocyclic effect.

Theories of bonding - VBT, CFT and their limitations; d-orbital splitting in octahedral, JT-distorted octahedral, square planar, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, and tetrahedral complexes; CFSE for d1 to d10 systems, pairing energy, low-spin and high-spin complexes and magnetic properties; LFT, and molecular orbital (MO) theory of selected octahedral and tetrahedral complexes.

Electronic Spectra - UV-Vis, charge transfer, colors, intensities and origin of transitions, interpretation, term symbols and splitting of terms in free atoms, selection rules for electronic transitions, Orgel and Tanabe-Sugano diagram, calculation of Dq, B, C, Nephelauxetic ratio.

Reaction mechanisms - substitution reactions in octahedral and square planar complexes, trans effect and its influence, water exchange, anation and base hydrolysis, stereochemistry, inner and outer sphere electron transfer mechanism.

Bioinorganic Chemistry: Transition metals in biology - their occurrence and function, active-site structure and function of metalloproteins and metalloenzymes with various transition metal ions and ligand systems; O2 binding properties of heme (haemoglobin and myoglobin) and non-heme proteins hemocynin & hemerythrin), their coordination geometry and electronic structure, co-operativity effect, Hill coefficient and Bohr Effect; characterization of O2 bound species by Raman and infrared spectroscopic methods; representative synthetic models of heme and nonheme systems.

Electron transfer proteins - active site structure and functions of ferredoxin, rubridoxin and cytochromes, and their comparisons. Vitamin B12 and cytochrome P450 and their mechanisms of action.

Metals in medicine - therapeutic applications of cis-platin, transition metal radioisotopes (example: Tc, Co and Cu etc.) and MRI (Mn and Fe) agents. Toxicity of metals - Cd, Hg and Cr toxic effects with specific examples.

CY5013: Conceptual Organic Chemistry
Physical organic chemistry: Relationship between thermodynamic stability and rates of reactions – kinetic and thermodynamic control of product formation, Hammond’s postulate, Curtin Hammett principle. Catalysis (acids, bases, and nucleophiles) and isotope effects, importance in the determination of organic reaction mechanisms, solvent effects, examples from SN2 and E2 reactions. Introduction to carbon acids, pKa of weak acids.

Stereochemistry: The concept of prochirality: topicity, prosteroisomerism, stereotopic ligands and faces and stereoheterotopic ligands, introduction to molecular symmetry and chirality, Center of chirality, molecules with C, N, S based chiral centers, axial, planar and helical chirality, stereochemistry and absolute configuration of allenes, biphenyls, binaphthyls, spiranes, exo-cyclic alkylidenecycloalkanes, ansa and cyclophanic compounds.

Conformational analysis: Introduction to conformational analysis, steric, electronic and stereoelectronic effects in governing the conformation of acyclic and cyclic (5 and 6 membered rings) systems, A-strains and anomeric effect, decalins, transannular interactions in medium size rings.

Conformation and reactivity: steric and electronic effects in syn-elimination, E2 elimination and neighboring group participation (Woodward, Prevost methods) of acyclic and cyclohexyl systems, esterification, substitution reaction and formation and opening of epoxide in cyclohexyl systems (Furst Plattner rule).

Stereoselectivity: Classification, terminology, principle of stereoselectivity, examples of diastereoselectivity using Cram, Cram-Chelate, Felkin-Ahn, anti-Felkin, Houk models, Cieplak and cation coordination models, and Zimmerman-Traxler transition states, enantioselectivity. Desymmetrization and kinetic resolution, methods of determination of absolute configuration.