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Organic Photochemistry

By Prof. M. Muneer   |   Aligarh Muslim University
Learners enrolled: 766   |  Exam registration: 57
ABOUT THE COURSE:
The course is designed to teach the fundamentals of photochemical reactions to cover the postgraduate syllabus of many Indian universities. This course is taught as a core course of the program. Since photochemistry is a prominent area of study in many chemistry fields, most students find it essential to have a basic and advanced understanding of these reactions. The syllabus covers the topics like: Fundamental Principles of Photochemistry, Photochemistry of organic compounds like Alkenes, dienes, carbonyl compounds, aromatic compounds, etc.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: MSc ( Chemistry)

PREREQUISITES: B.Sc (Chemistry)

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Pharmaceuticals and fine chemical companies
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Core
Language for course content : English
Duration : 8 weeks
Category :
  • Chemistry
Credit Points : 2
Level : Postgraduate
Start Date : 19 Aug 2024
End Date : 11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends : 19 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends : 30 Aug 2024
Exam Date : 25 Oct 2024 IST
ALERT ON EXAM DATE :

Exam date is subject to change.

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1:  Fundamental Principles of Photochemistry, Absorption of light by molecules: direct and indirect excitation, electronically excited states, types of excitation, and laws of photochemistry. Photophysical processes: radiative (fluorescence, phosphorescence), non-radiative (state-to-state crossing, vibrational relaxation), combination of radiative and non-radiative processes, Jablonski diagram.

Week 2: Homogeneous and heterogeneous photoelectron transfer reactions: principles and few selected examples Classification of photochemical reactions ( adiabatic, Non-adiabatic, and Hot-ground reactions), Franck-Condon principle, Quantum Yield

Week 3: Photochemistry of Alkenes: Intramolecular reactions of the olefinic bond: geometrical isomerism, cyclization reactions, rearrangement of 1, 4-and 1, 5-dienes, photochemistry of barrelene, dibenzobarrelene, dibenzoyl alkene, dibenzoyl alkenes.

Week 4: Photochemistry of Carbonyl Compounds: Intramolecular reactions of carbonyl compounds: saturated, cyclic and acyclic Photochemistry of α, β - Unsaturated and - β, λ unsaturated compounds, and Cyclohexadienone.

Week 5: cycloaddition reactions of carbonyl compounds to alkenes (intra and intermolecular) oxetane formation, stereochemistry of the product.

Week 6: Photochemistry of Aromatic Compounds: Photoinduced isomerizations of benzene and its alkyl derivatives, 1, 2; 1, 3 and 1, 4-photocycloaddition reactions of benzene. Nucleophilic photosubstitution reactions in aromatic compounds.

Week 7: Named Photochemical Reactions: Photo-Fries rearrangement. Barton reaction, Hoffmann-Loeffler- Freytag reaction, Singlet molecular oxygen reactions Photo-Bergman cyclisation. Photochemical, Nazarov cyclization. Photo-Favorskii rearrangement, Bicyclic rearrangement, Photochemical Wolf

Week 8: Heterogeneous photoinduced electron transfer reactions: semiconductor mediated reactions, synthesis of visible light active catalyst. Characterization using different analytical techniques. Photocatalytic performance by studying the degradation of organic compounds in aqueous suspension under visible light

Books and references

1. Fundamental of Photochemistry, K.K.Rohtagi- Mukherji, Wily- Eastern.
2. Essentials of Molecular Photochemistry, A.Gilbert and J.Baggott, Blackwell Scientific Publication.
3. Molecular Photochemistry, N.J. Turro, W.A. Benjamin.
4. Introductory Photochemistry, A. Cox and T. CAMP, Mc Graw-Hill

Instructor bio

Prof. M. Muneer

Aligarh Muslim University
Prof. M. Muneer, Graduation and Post-Graduation in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, AMU, Aligarh, and Ph.D. (Chemistry) from the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Worked for ten years as a Scientist in the Photochemistry Research Unit at Regional Research Laboratory (CSIR) Trivandrum. Joined as a Reader in the Department of Chemistry, AMU, Aligarh in the year 1998 and at present working as a Professor since 2005. Has been involved in the teaching of Organic Chemistry courses, Photochemistry, Application of Spectroscopic methods, Heterocyclic Chemistry at the Graduate and Post Graduate level. Has been a recipient of the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation and Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship. Produced 16 Ph.D, and Published more than 140 research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals Total Citations: 9624, h-index: 57, i10 index:101

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 25 October 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.

Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of AMU and INI. 

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- INI Team


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