B.

Sc (Honours) Chemistry, Choice Based Credit System, Batch 2019 and onwards

I.K. GUJRAL PUNJAB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL SCIENCES
Course Name B.Sc. (Honours) Chemistry
Subject Code: BHCL212-19
Subject Title: PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY-III (Phase Equilibrium & Chemical
Kinetics)
Contact Hours: L:3 T:1 P:0 Credits:4
Examination 3
Duration (hours)
Objective(s): This course will equip students with the necessary knowledge
concerning the fundamentals in physical chemistry concerning phase
equilibria, chemical kinetics, catalysis and adsorption. The problem
solving skills of students are expected to be enhanced through due
weightage given to numerical problems in each unit.

Details of the Course

Unit Contents Contact

Hours
I Phase Equilibria: 15
Concept of phases, components and degrees of freedom, derivation of
Gibbs Phase Rule for nonreactive and reactive systems; Clausius-
Clapeyron equation and its applications to solid-liquid, liquid-vapour
and solid-vapour equilibria, phase diagram for one component systems,
with applications.
Phase diagrams for systems of solid-liquid equilibria involving
eutectic, congruent and incongruent melting points, solid solutions.
Binary solutions: Gibbs-Duhem-Margules equation, azeotropes, lever
rule, partial miscibility of liquids, CST, miscible pairs, steam
distillation.
Nernst distribution law: its derivation and applications.

II Chemical Kinetics 14
Order and molecularity of a reaction, rate laws in terms of the
advancement of a reaction, differential and integrated form of rate
expressions up to second order reactions, experimental methods of the
determination of rate laws, kinetics of complex reactions (integrated
rate expressions up to first order only): (i) Opposing reactions (ii)
parallel reactions and (iii) consecutive reactions and their differential
rate equations (steady-state approximation in reaction mechanisms)
(iv) chain reactions.
Temperature dependence of reaction rates; Arrhenius equation;
activation energy, Numericals. Collision theory of reaction rates,
Lindemann mechanism, qualitative treatment of the theory of absolute
reaction rates.

III Catalysis: 8
Types of catalyst, specificity and selectivity, mechanisms of catalyzed
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reactions at solid surfaces; effect of particle size and efficiency of

nanoparticles as catalysts, surface catalyzed unimolecular and
bimolecular reactions. Enzyme catalysis, Michaelis-Menten
mechanism, acid-base catalysis.
IV Adsorption: 8
Physical adsorption, chemisorption, adsorption isotherms. nature of
adsorbed state, derivation of Langmuir, Freundlich, and BET
adsorption isotherms, estimation of surface area by BET equation,
Types of Adsorption Isotherms, Gibb’s Adsorption isotherm.

Reference Books
1. Peter Atkins & Julio De Paula, Physical Chemistry 9th Ed., Oxford University Press
(2010).
2. Castellan, G. W. Physical Chemistry, 4th Ed., Narosa (2004).
3. McQuarrie, D. A. & Simon, J. D., Molecular Thermodynamics, Viva Books Pvt.
Ltd.: New Delhi (2004).
4. Engel, T. & Reid, P. Physical Chemistry 3rd Ed., Prentice-Hall (2012).
5. Zundhal, S.S. Chemistry concepts and applications Cengage India (2011).
6. Ball, D. W. Physical Chemistry Cengage India (2012).
7. Mortimer, R. G. Physical Chemistry 3rd Ed., Elsevier: NOIDA, UP (2009).
8. Levine, I. N. Physical Chemistry 6th Ed., Tata McGraw-Hill (2011).
9. Metz, C. R. Physical Chemistry 2nd Ed., Tata McGraw-Hill (2009).

Course Outcomes and Mapping

At the end of the course, the student will be able to
CO1. Describe various terms associated with phase equilibria, chemical kinetics,
catalysis and adsorption.
CO2. Analyse and draw phase diagrams for single and two component systems
CO3. Define the various terms associated with catalysis.
CO4. Familiarise with the phenomenon of adsorption and its related theories.
CO5. Understand the factors affecting the kinetics of chemical processes.
PSO1 PSO2 PSO3 PSO4 PSO5 PSO6 PSO7
CO1 3 1 1 - 2 1 1
CO2 3 2 3 - 1 - 1
CO3 2 2 1 - 2 1 1
CO4 3 2 2 - 2 1 1
CO5 3 2 2 - 1 - 1

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