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END SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2012
Roll No.
B. Tech.

Programme:
Subject:
Course No.:

Semester

Chemistry-I
CHT-I05 (Common with CHT-101and CHE-I01)
Maximum marks: 50

Time allowed: 3 Hours

Unless stated otherwise, the Symbols have their usual meanings in context with the Subject.
Assume suitably and state additional data required, if any.

Before starling to write the solutions, the Candidates are mandatorily required to check the Question
paper for
di..r"puncy ancl also ensure that they have been delivered the Question Paper of right
"ny
Course No. and right Subject title.

Note:

(1)
(2)

Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal marks.

Justify yor. urrr*ir(s) with suitable example(s)/chemical reaction(s)/neat, cleaned and

(3)

labeled diagram(s), wherever applicable.

You are mandatorily required to write your Section on the

(4)
i (a)

different

The rate constants of a second order reaction are 5.70 x l0-5 dm3 mol-' s-r and 1.64 x 10-4 dm3
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mol s-' at25'C and 40 "C respectively. Calculate the activation energy (E ) and Arrhenius pre4
exponential factor (l).

(b)
(a)
(b)

IV

The question paper consists ofeight questions and is printed on both the sides.

reactants are

(a)

III

Answer Sheet.

What'are second order reactions? Mention their two salient characteristics. Derive an expression
for the velocity constant (k) of a second order reaction when the concentrations of both the

(b)

II

top corner (RHS) of your

(a)

What are reversible electrodes? How is the calomel electrode represented? Under what condition

does the chloride ions concentration increase in the calomel

electrode?

OR

Calculate the pH of the acidic solution in the following electrochemical cell:

Hg, Hg2Cl2(s); fCt (saturated solution) ll H. lunknown concentration); Q, QHz, Pt'
iftie values for the EMF of the above cell, Eo"u1o*"1 and Eo6{a,aq, are 0.26, 0.24 and0.70 4
respectively at 25 'C).
What is meant by corrosion of metals? Why do the metals (with the exception of noble metals)
undergo corrosion? Explain the electrochemical theory of wet corrosion of iron with the
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absorption of oxygen.
State and explain the photochemical reactions and the reverse of photochemical reactions with
suitable examples. Discuss any two points of differences between the photochemical and the dark
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reactions.
phenomena
of
the
explain
a
Jablonski
diagram,
help
of
the
With
Define the term spin multiplicity.
nonand
radiative
crossing,
inter
system
conversion,
internal
fluorescence, phosphorescence,
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radiative transitions.

State and explain the following terms (any five): Phase, component, degrees
metastable equlibrium, transition temperature and enatiotropism.
Discuss the XRD method used for the.characterizalion of a given nano material.

Rest

of

freedom,

OR
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of the qyestions ure orinted on the bu?k of this sheet,..

Sheet

(b)

the various
phase diagrarn of suiphur sYstem' Explain
Draw a neat, cleaned and labeled
it'
equilibria and triple points involved in
Answer

(ii)
(iii)
(iv)

$1",,ii[!"r:"jl|Ii:%g},i]J|l;*",",.

No'

Phase

a-amino and
oronry amino acid containing no rree

carboxYlic acid gouPs'

group present in co-enzyme A'
wrlt" trre nam" irrr",L reactive functional
individually present in
nf'osphoric acid uniti
Write the number of pentose *"
"'J'fr"
de (NAD)'
ni cotinamide adeni noiine dinucleoti
meant for two
fo.*uiu'ion of t"iu"td phase rule equation

Write t6e mathematical

in two components

eutectic
(") i;lllT:,,:'"Htl?or" metallurgist who introduced the term
p-(D) tructose'
(vi) H,:iffi,. Haworth p'ojection formula of either o-(D) glucose or

Discusstheformation,orderofstabilityarrdorbital

free
structure of carbocations, carbanions'

OR

radicals and carbenes.

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Discussindetailthegeneralmethodsofsynthesis,importantmethodofthecharacterizationand
inOu"'iit or technicai uppiitution' of nuno materials'

the important

vl(a)Howdothephospholipidsdifferfro.mthetriglycerides?writethenameanddrawthestructureof
primary and secondary
and one stearate moieties at the
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a triglyceride possessing two palmitate
molecule'
carbon atoms respectively of glycerol
upon
which
,ll,qnoic.
acid
-:^r"+ chain
^hoih alkanoic
of a straight
(b) Write the IUpAb nams and-draw-the structurethe
of
theory
t<noop:,
Produces"two molecules
with
responding the p-oxidatio' in u".ordun."
above acid' 6
answer with uliimate B-oxidation of
as the end producrs. :urtiffiu,
acetic acid

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the
their two important applications' Answer
(a) what are the coordination compounds? Mention
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following in a Tabular Fom:

Nanie of the

coordination

compound

Name of Name ot Charge

Present

the. Lewis

the Lewis

on

acid

base

coordination

bxidation number

the

of the central
metal sPecies

sohere
:

^1,^t

/n\

elraaquasupl]I;t\rr.,
Potassi um hexacyanofbrrate(
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(b)

tI

outer- and iner orbital- octahedral

Discuss the paramagnetic behaviour of an

co(Ir!

coordination

OR

comPounds.
environment'
Explain the crystal field splitting of d-orbitals in an octahedral

VIII

OR

of compounds'
(a) Name any two modern techniques used in the structural elucidation
S^' reactions occur with the retention of configuration'

Why?

(b) Discuss the terms: chemical tt"tit, shieldlng.*and

spectroscopy.

dir"r$ thekinetics of the photochemical

^
deitrietding frequently used in
,

formation o?HCl'

(c) Write short note on UV-Visible spectroscopy'

its
DiscussthephasediagramofPb.AgSystmwithspecialemphasison
importance.

NMR

OR
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OR
rnetallurgical
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