Important Topics for GATE

Organic Chemistry

1. Aromaticity

2. Strengths of Organic Acids-Bases

3. Specific Rotation

4. Classical Carbocations

5. Wilkinson's catalyst

6. Beer-Lamberts law

7. Beckmann Rearrangement

8. Wittig Reaction

9. Pericyclic reactions and Eletrocyclic Reactions

10. Cyclo Addition Reactions

11. Sigmatropic Reactions

12. Corey-Chaykovski Reaction

13. Swern Oxidation

14. Hundsdiecker reaction

15. Birch Reduction

16. Arndt-Eistert Reaction

17. Bamford Steven reation

18. Grignad Reagent

19. DIBAL

20. LiAlH4

21. PDC

22. Jones reagent

23. SeO2

24. Fetizons Reagent

25. Clemmensen reduction

26. Finkelstein Raction

27. Favoroskii Reaction

28. Wolff Kishner reduction

29. Baeyer Villige Oxidation

30. Mannich Reaction

31. Rate of Reaction

32. IUPAC nomenclature

33. structural and geometrical isomerism

34. Inductive effect

35. Resonance

36. Hyperconjugation

37. cannizzaro reaction

38. Michael Reaction

39. MOT

40. Reformatsky reaction

41. Friedal-Craft Reaction

42. williamsons synthesis

Inorganic Chemistry

1. Wade rule

2. Jhan-Teller Therrem

3. 18 Electron Rule

4. HSAB Principle

5. F-Block

6. Polymer Molecular weight

7. Term Symbols

8. Band theory

9. Trans Effect

10. VSEPR theory

11. Miller Indices

12. Spinal and Inverse spinals

13. Electrical Conductance and Registance

14. Reductive Elimination

15. Isolobality

16. Bio-Inorganic Chemistry- Hemoglobin, Hemerythrin, Hemocynin, Cytochromes, Iron-Sulfur proteins-Ferredoxin, Rubredoxin, Rieske Proteins,.

17. Metals ions in photosystems

18. Carboxypeptidase- Carboxyanhydrase Liver alcohol dehydrogenase

19. superoxide dismutase SOD

20. nitrogen fixation

21. Copper proteins

22. Siderophores-Ionophores

23. Ferritin

24. Silicates

25. Aldol Reaction

26. Inner sphere mechanism

27. Vaska complexes- Oxidation additions

28. Dipol moment

29. Catalysis

30. Hydroformylation

31. Wacker Oxidation

32. Slater rule

33. Bonding in metal carbonyls

34. Inorganic Chains, rings and polymers

35. Metal Metal bonding

36. Boranes

37. Coordination chemistry

Physcical Chemsitry

1. Maxwell Equation

2. Debye-Huckel theory

3. Larmor Equation

4. Adsoption Isotherms- Langmuir theorem

5. EMF -Nernst equation

6. Jablonski Diagram

7. Kphlrausch law

8. Rate Law

9. EPR Spectroscopy

10. Nuclear Chemistry

11. Massbauer Spectroscopy

12. Claysius-Clayperon Equation

13. Phase Rule

14. Van der waals equation

15. Electro analytical methods- Polarography

16. Amperometry- coulometry

17. Voltammetry

18. Potentiometry

19. Quantitative analysis- using dichromate and permagnet

20. Gravimetry- determination of nickel

21. iodometry

22. Rotational spectroscopy

23. Vibrational Spectroscopy

24. Le-Chaterlier Principle

25. Adsorption Indtroduction

26. Chromatography Introduction terminology

27. Vandeemter equation

28. gas chromatography

29. HPLC

30. Collision theory

31. Factor affection rate of reactions

32. Rate law, order, molecularity

33. Electrolysis

34. Solid state chemistry

35. First Law of thermodynamics

36. Enthalpy, heat capacity and thermochemistry

37. Entropy

38. Gibbs Free energy

39. Electronic spectra of complexes

40. Hammett quation

41. atomic structure

Important Chapters of Organic Chemistry from Clayden book.