JEE Advanced 2023 Chemistry Syllabus 

• Concept of atoms and molecules
• Dalton’s atomic theory
• Mole concept
• Chemical formulae
• Balanced chemical equations
• Calculations (based on mole concept) involving common oxidation-reduction, neutralization, and displacement reactions
• Concentration in terms of mole fraction, molarity, molality and normality.

• Absolute scale of temperature, ideal gas equation
• Deviation from ideality, van der Waals equation
• Kinetic theory of gases, average, root mean square and most probable velocities and their relation with temperature
• Law of partial pressures
• Vapour pressure
• Diffusion of gases.

• Bohr model, spectrum of hydrogen atom, quantum numbers
• Wave-particle duality, de Broglie hypothesis
• Uncertainty principle
• Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen atom, shapes of s, p and d orbitals
• Electronic configurations of elements (up to atomic number 36)
• Aufbau principle
• Pauli’s exclusion principle and Hund’s rule
• Orbital overlap and covalent bond
• Hybridisation involving s, p, and d orbitals only
• Orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species
• Hydrogen bond
• Polarity in molecules, dipole moment (qualitative aspects only)
• VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, angular, triangular, square planar, pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).

• First law of thermodynamics
• Internal energy, work and heat, pressure-volume work
• Enthalpy, Hess’s law
• Heat of reaction, fusion and vapourization
• Second law of thermodynamics
• Entropy
• Free energy
• Criterion of spontaneity.

• Law of mass action
• Equilibrium constant, Le Chatelier’s principle (effect of concentration, temperature and pressure)
• Significance of ΔG and ΔG0 in chemical equilibrium
• Solubility product, common ion effect, pH and buffer solutions
• Acids and bases (Bronsted and Lewis concepts)
• Hydrolysis of salts.

• Electrochemical cells and cell reactions
• Standard electrode potentials
• Nernst equation and its relation to ΔG
• Electrochemical series, emf of galvanic cells
• Faraday’s laws of electrolysis
• Electrolytic conductance, specific, equivalent and molar conductivity, Kohlrausch’s law
• Concentration cells.

• Rates of chemical reactions
• Order of reactions
• Rate constant
• First order reactions
• Temperature dependence of the rate constant (Arrhenius equation).

Nearest neighbours, ionic radii, simple ionic compounds, point defects.

Molecular weight determination from lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point and depression of freezing point.

• Elementary concepts of adsorption (excluding adsorption isotherms)
• Colloids: types, methods of preparation and general properties
• Elementary ideas of emulsions, surfactants, and micelles (only definitions and examples).

Isotopes and isobars

Properties of α, β and γ rays

Kinetics of radioactive decay (decay series excluded), carbon dating

Stability of nuclei with respect to proton neutron ratio

Brief discussion on fission and fusion reactions.

Properties of allotropes of carbon (only diamond and graphite), phosphorus and sulphur

Boron: diborane, boric acid and borax

Aluminium: alumina, aluminium chloride and alums

Carbon: oxides and oxyacid (carbonic acid)

Silicon: silicones, silicates and silicon carbide

Nitrogen: oxides, oxyacids and ammonia

Phosphorus: oxides, oxyacids (phosphorus acid, phosphoric acid) and phosphine

Oxygen: ozone and hydrogen peroxide

Sulphur: hydrogen sulphide, oxides, sulphurous acid, sulphuric acid and sodium thiosulphate

Halogens: hydrohalic acids, oxides and oxyacids of chlorine, bleaching powder

Xenon fluorides.

Coordination compounds: nomenclature of mononuclear coordination compounds, cistrans and ionisation isomerisms, hybridization and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds (linear, tetrahedral, square planar and octahedral).

Oxides, chlorides and sulphates of Fe2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+

Potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate, silver oxide, silver nitrate, silver thiosulphate.

zinc and silver.

Carbon reduction method (iron and tin)

Self reduction method (copper and lead)

Electrolytic reduction method (magnesium and aluminium)

Cyanide process (silver and gold).

Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride), sulphate and sulphide.

σ and π-bonds

Shapes of simple organic molecules

Structural and geometrical isomerism

Optical isomerism of compounds containing up to two asymmetric centres, (R,S and E,Z nomenclature excluded)

IUPAC nomenclature of simple organic compounds (only) hydrocarbons, mono-functional and bi-functional compounds)

Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections)

Resonance and hyperconjugation

Keto-enoltautomerism

Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds (only combustion method)

Hydrogen bonds

Definition and their effects on physical properties of alcohols and carboxylic acids

Inductive and resonance effects on acidity and basicity of organic acids and bases

Polarity and inductive effects in alkyl halides

Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage

Formation, structure and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.

Combustion and halogenation of alkanes

Preparation of alkanes by Wurtz reaction and decarboxylation reactions.

Acidity of alkynes

Acid catalysed hydration of alkenes and alkynes (excluding the stereochemistry of addition and elimination)

Reactions of alkenes with KMnO4 and ozone

Reduction of alkenes and alkynes; Preparation of alkenes and alkynes by elimination reactions

Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X2, HX, HOX and H2O (X=halogen)

Addition reactions of alkynes; Metal acetylides.

Electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation, nitration, sulphonation, Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation

Effect of o-, m- and p-directing groups in monosubstituted benzenes.

Reimer-Tieman reaction, Kolbe reaction.

Alcohols: esterification, dehydration and oxidation, reaction with sodium, phosphorus halides, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, conversion of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones

Ethers: Preparation by Williamson’s Synthesis

Aldehydes and Ketones: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation

Aldol condensation, Perkin reaction

Cannizzaro reaction

Haloform reaction and nucleophilic addition reactions (Grignard addition)

Carboxylic acids: formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides, ester hydrolysis

Amines: basicity of substituted anilines and aliphatic amines, preparation from nitro compounds, reaction with nitrous acid, azo coupling reaction of diazonium salts of aromatic amines, Sandmeyer and related reactions of diazonium salts; carbylamine reaction

Haloarenes: nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding Benzyne mechanism and Cine substitution).

Mono- and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose)

Oxidation, reduction, glycoside formation and hydrolysis of sucrose.

Detection and identification of the following functional groups: hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and ketone), carboxyl, amino and nitro

Chemical methods of separation of mono-functional organic compounds from binary mixtures.