JEE Advanced Chemistry Syllabus

JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) is for aspirants who wish to get admission in Engineering, Design and Architecture courses in one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). JEE is held in two stages- JEE Main and JEE Advanced. JEE Main is conducted by National Testing Agency or NTA and JEE Advanced is conducted by one of the the seven Zonal Coordinating IITs namely IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati and IIT Madras. Aspirants are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced only if they qualify for the JEE Main.

The JEE Advanced Chemistry section can be tricky compared to JEE Main. The topics may look easy to understand and remember but, in reality, the amount of time and practice each topic requires is innumerable. The Chemistry syllabus includes many formulas, balancing equations, definitions, solutions, numerical, properties and methods of preparation. It is a vast subject filled with various topics and sub-topics and all the topics are interrelated to each other, therefore, understanding each topic thoroughly is important. 

JEE Advanced 2022 Chemistry Syllabus

The JEE Advanced Examination is considered amongst the most difficult qualifying examinations for students seeking admissions into Engineering, Science or Architecture undergraduate programs in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The exam consists of 3 sections – Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. 

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JEE Advanced Complete Chemistry Syllabus 2022

Students can access the JEE Advanced Complete Chemistry Syllabus 2022 below:

Chemistry

  • Physical Chemistry
  • Basic Concepts in Chemistry
  • Atomic Structure & Chemical Bonding
  • Solid State
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • States of Matter: Gaseous & liquid states
  • Solutions
  • Energetics   
  • Nuclear Chemistry
  • Surface Chemistry
  • Electrochemistry
  • Chemical Equilibrium
  1. Inorganic Chemistry
  • Isolation, preparation, and properties of nonmetals
  • Transition elements (Three-dimensional series)
  • Preparation and properties of compounds
  • Properties of Qualitative Analysis
  • Preparation of Compounds
  • Preparation of Non-metals
  • Ores and Minerals
  • Extractive Metallurgy
  • Properties of Compounds
  1. Organic Chemistry
  • Basic Concepts    
  • Phenols
  • Preparation, properties, and reactions of alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes
  • Carbohydrate    
  • Amino acids and Peptides
  • Practical Organic Chemistry    
  • Characteristic reactions of Alkyl halides, Alcohols, Ethers, Aldehydes, Ketones, Carboxylic acids, Amines, Haloarenes
  • Properties and uses of polymers

JEE Advanced Complete Chemistry Syllabus 2022

The following is the detailed part wise JEE Advanced Complete Chemistry Syllabus 2022:

Physical chemistry

General Topics

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

Gaseous and liquid states

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

Atomic Structure and Chemical Bonding

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

Energetics 

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

Chemical Equilibrium 

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

Electrochemistry

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

Chemical Kinetics 

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

Solid state

  • Nearest neighbours, ionic radii, simple ionic compounds, point defects. 
  • packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices
  • close packed structure of solids (cubic)
  • seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, b, c, α, β, γ)
  • crystalline state
  • Classification of solids

Solutions

  • Molecular weight determination from lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point and depression of freezing point 
  • Raoult’s law 

Surface chemistry 

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

Nuclear chemistry 

  • Radioactivity: isotopes and isobars
  • Kinetics of radioactive decay (decay series excluded), carbon dating; Stability of nuclei with respect to protonneutron ratio
  • Properties of α, β and γ rays
  • Brief discussion on fission and fusion reactions

Inorganic chemistry

Isolation/preparation and properties of the following non-metals

  • Properties of allotropes of carbon (only diamond and graphite), phosphorus and sulphur 
  • Boron, silicon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulphur and halogens

Preparation and properties of the following compounds

  • Silicon: silicones, silicates and silicon carbide
  • Carbon: oxides and oxyacid (carbonic acid)
  • Boron: diborane, boric acid and borax
  • Aluminium: alumina, aluminium chloride and alums
  • Sulphur: hydrogen sulphide, oxides, sulphurous acid, sulphuric acid and sodium thiosulphate
  • Oxides, peroxides, hydroxides, carbonates, bicarbonates, chlorides and sulphates of sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium
  • Xenon fluorides
  • Phosphorus: oxides, oxyacids (phosphorus acid, phosphoric acid) and phosphine
  • Oxygen: ozone and hydrogen peroxide
  • Nitrogen: oxides, oxyacids and ammonia
  • Halogens: hydrohalic acids, oxides and oxyacids of chlorine, bleaching powder

Transition elements (3d series)

  • Coordination compounds: nomenclature of mononuclear coordination compounds, cistrans and ionisation isomerisms, hybridization and geometries of mononuclear coordination compounds (linear, tetrahedral, square planar and octahedral). 
  • Definition, general characteristics, oxidation states and their stabilities, colour (excluding the details of electronic transitions) and calculation of spin-only magnetic moment

Preparation and properties of the following compounds

  • Oxides and chlorides of tin and lead
  • Potassium permanganate, potassium dichromate, silver oxide, silver nitrate, silver thiosulphate
  • Oxides, chlorides and sulphates of Fe2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+

Ores and minerals

  • Commonly occurring ores and minerals of iron, copper, tin, lead, magnesium, aluminium, zinc and silver. 

Extractive metallurgy 

  • Cyanide process (silver and gold). 
  • Electrolytic reduction method (magnesium and aluminium)
  • Self reduction method (copper and lead)
  • Carbon reduction method (iron and tin)
  • Chemical principles and reactions only (industrial details excluded)

Principles of qualitative analysis 

  • Groups I to V (only Ag+ , Hg2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, Bi3+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Al3+, Ca2+, Ba2+, Zn2+, Mn2+ and Mg2+); Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride), sulphate and sulphide

Organic Chemistry

Concepts 

  • Hydrogen bonds: definition and their effects on physical properties of alcohols and carboxylic acids
  • Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections); Resonance and hyperconjugation Keto-enol tautomerismu
  • Structural and geometrical isomerism
  • σ and π-bonds
  • Polarity and inductive effects in alkyl halides
  • Shapes of simple organic molecules
  • Hybridisation of carbon
  • Formation, structure and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals
  • Optical isomerism of compounds containing up to two asymmetric centres, (R,S and E,Z nomenclature excluded)
  • Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds (only combustion method)
  • Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage
  • IUPAC nomenclature of simple organic compounds (only hydrocarbons, mono-functional and bi-functional compounds)
  • Inductive and resonance effects on acidity and basicity of organic acids and bases

Preparation, properties and reactions of alkanes 

  • Combustion and halogenation of alkanes
  • Preparation of alkanes by Wurtz reaction and decarboxylation reactions
  • Homologous series, physical properties of alkanes (melting points, boiling points and density)

Preparation, properties and reactions of alkenes and alkynes 

  • Metal acetylides
  • Additional reactions of alkynes
  • Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X2, HX, HOX and H2O (X=halogen)
  • Preparation of alkenes and alkynes by elimination reactions
  • Reduction of alkenes and alkynes
  • Reactions of alkenes with KMnO4 and ozone
  • Acid catalysed hydration of alkenes and alkynes (excluding the stereochemistry of addition and elimination)
  • Acidity of alkynes
  • Physical properties of alkenes and alkynes (boiling points, density and dipole moments)

Reactions of Benzene

  • Effect of o-, m- and p-directing groups in monosubstituted benzenes. 
  • Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation
  • Electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation, nitration, sulphonation, 
  • Structure and aromaticity

Phenols 

  • Reimer-Tieman reaction, Kolbe reaction. 
  • Acidity, electrophilic substitution reactions (halogenation, nitration and sulphonation)

Characteristic reactions of the following (including those mentioned above) 

  • Alkyl halides:
  • Grignard reactions
  • Rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation
  • Nucleophilic substitution reactions
  • Alcohols:
  • Reaction with sodium

–  Dehydration

– Conversion of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones

– ZnCl2/concentrated HCl

– Phosphorus halides

– Oxidation

– Esterification

  • Carbylamine reaction
  • Cannizzaro reaction
  • 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
  • Ethers: Preparation by Williamson’s Synthesis
  • Haloform reaction and nucleophilic addition reactions (Grignard addition)
  • Aldehydes and Ketones: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation
  • Haloarenes: nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding Benzyne mechanism and Cine substitution)
  • Carboxylic acids: formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides, ester hydrolysis 
  • Aldol condensation, Perkin reaction

Carbohydrates

  • Oxidation, reduction, glycoside formation and hydrolysis of sucrose
  • Classification; mono- and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose)

Amino acids and peptides 

  • General structure (only primary structure for peptides) and physical properties

Properties and uses of some important polymers 

  • Natural rubber, cellulose, nylon, teflon and PVC

Practical Organic chemistry

  • Chemical methods of separation of mono-functional organic compounds from binary mixtures
  • Detection and identification of the following functional groups: hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and ketone), carboxyl, amino and nitro
  • Detection of elements (N, S, halogens)
  • Mixtures

JEE Advanced Chemistry 2022 Syllabus 

How to Prepare for the JEE Advanced 2022?

Aspirants preparing for JEE Advanced examination should always be one step ahead to appear for such a difficult exam. 

  1. To ace the JEE Advanced exam, students should focus more on important topics having more weightage percentage.
  2. Solving JEE Advanced mock tests daily can also improve your speed and understanding of the question within a given time.
  3. Analyze your JEE Main paper and revise the topics which were not clear before.
  4. Time management is also important to carry out the tasks given above. If time management skills are up to mark you might be able to cover all the topics of a subject and get time to practice mock tests till your JEE Advanced attempt.
  5. Students can visit Extramarks website and download the JEE Advanced Syllabus. Thereafter, students can check the topic thoroughly and prepare their study time table. They should thoroughly prepare every topic so that none of them is missed to be studied.
  6. Most importantly, they should download past JEE Advanced Question Papers which are available on the Extramarks website. They can practise JEE Advanced Sample Papers and evaluate their preparation. Later, they can download the JEE Advanced Answer/Solution Key and refer to it.

Expected JEE Advanced 2021 Chapter Wise High-to-Low Weightage for Chemistry

Topic  Weightage 
Aldehydes

Ketones

Carboxylic Acids

14-15%
Atomic Structure 14-15%
P-block elements Group: 13-18 13-14%
Hydrocarbons 13-14%
Atomic Structure 11-12%
Organic Chemistry 11-12%
Thermodynamics 6-7%
Solutions 6-7%
Chemical Bonding 4-5%
Solid State 4-5%
Coordination Compounds 4-5%
ElectroChemistry 4-5%

Important Chemistry Chapters for JEE Advanced 2022

In the Chemistry JEE Advanced Syllabus, Extramarks has narrowed down some important topics from which a maximum number of questions might appear in the JEE Advanced Chemistry 2022 paper.

The list of topics given below might help students to prepare for the upcoming JEE Advanced Chemistry exam:

  • Solutions
  • Solid States
  • Mole Concept and the Concept of Equivalence
  • Gasses Theory
  • Redox Reaction
  • Thermodynamics and Second Law of  Thermodynamics
  • Chemical Bonding
  • Carbonyl Compounds and their derivatives 

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CHEMISTRY

General topics

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

States of Matter: Gases and Liquids

Gas laws and ideal gas equation, absolute scale of temperature; 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; Diffusion of gases. Intermolecular interactions: types, distance dependence, and their effect on properties; Liquids: vapour pressure, surface tension, viscosity.

Atomic Structure

Bohr model, spectrum of hydrogen atom; Wave-particle duality, de Broglie hypothesis; Uncertainty principle; Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen atom: Energies, quantum numbers, wave function and probability density (plots only), shapes of s, p and d orbitals; Aufbau principle; Pauli’s exclusion principle and Hund’s rule.

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

Orbital overlap and covalent bond; Hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals only; Molecular orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species (up to Ne2); Hydrogen bond; Polarity in molecules, dipole moment; VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, angular, triangular, square planar, pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).

Chemical Thermodynamics

Intensive and extensive properties, state functions, First law of thermodynamics; Internal energy, work (pressure-volume only) and heat; Enthalpy, heat capacity, standard state, Hess’s law; Enthalpy of reaction, fusion and vapourization, and lattice enthalpy; Second law of thermodynamics; Entropy; Gibbs energy; Criteria of equilibrium and spontaneity.

Chemical and Ionic Equilibrium

Law of mass action; Significance of ∆𝐺  and ∆𝐺 ⊖  in chemical  equilibrium;

Equilibrium constant (Kp and Kc) and reaction quotient, Le Chatelier’s principle (effect of concentration, temperature and pressure); Solubility product and its applications, common ion effect, pH and buffer solutions; Acids and bases (Brønsted and Lewis concepts); Hydrolysis of salts.

Electrochemistry

Electrochemical cells and cell reactions; Standard electrode potentials; Electrochemical work, Nernst equation; Electrochemical series, emf of galvanic cells; Faraday’s laws of electrolysis; Electrolytic conductance, specific, equivalent and molar conductivity, Kohlrausch’s law; Batteries: Primary and Secondary, fuel cells; Corrosion.

Chemical Kinetics

Rates of chemical reactions; Order and molecularity of reactions; Rate law, rate constant, half-life; Differential and integrated rate expressions for zero and first order reactions; Temperature dependence of rate constant (Arrhenius equation and activation energy); Catalysis: Homogeneous and heterogeneous, activity and selectivity of solid catalysts, enzyme catalysis and its mechanism.

Solid State

Classification of solids, crystalline state, seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, b, c, α, β, γ), close packed structure of solids (cubic and hexagonal), packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices; Nearest neighbours, ionic radii and radius ratio, point defects.

Solutions

Henry’s law; Raoult’s law; Ideal solutions; Colligative properties: lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point, depression of freezing point, and osmotic pressure; van’t Hoff factor.

Surface Chemistry

Elementary concepts of adsorption: Physisorption and Chemisorption, Freundlich adsorption isotherm; Colloids: types, methods of preparation and general properties; Elementary ideas of emulsions, surfactants and micelles (only definitions and examples).

Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties

Modern periodic law and the present form of periodic table; electronic configuration of elements; periodic trends in atomic radius, ionic radius, ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy, valence, oxidation states, electronegativity, and chemical reactivity.

Hydrogen

Position of hydrogen in periodic table, occurrence, isotopes, preparation, properties and uses of hydrogen; hydrides – ionic, covalent and interstitial; physical and chemical properties of water, heavy water; hydrogen peroxide- preparation, reactions, use and structure; hydrogen as a fuel.

s-Block Elements

Alkali and alkaline earth metals-reactivity towards air, water, dihydrogen, halogens, acids; their reducing nature including solutions in liquid ammonia; uses of these elements; general characteristics of their oxides, hydroxides, halides, salts of oxoacids; anomalous behaviour of lithium and beryllium; preparation, properties, and uses of compounds of sodium (sodium carbonate, sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, sodium hydrogen carbonate) and calcium (calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate, calcium sulphate).

p-Block Elements

Oxidation state and trends in chemical reactivity of elements of groups 13-17; anomalous properties of boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and fluorine with respect to other elements in their respective groups.

Group 13: Reactivity towards acids, alkalis, and halogens; preparation, properties, and uses of borax, orthoboric acid, diborane, boron trifluoride, aluminium chloride, and alums; uses of boron and aluminium.

Group 14: Reactivity towards water and halogen; allotropes of carbon and uses of carbon; preparation, properties, and uses of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, silicon dioxide, silicones, silicates, zeolites.

Group 15: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen; allotropes of phosphorous; preparation, properties, and uses of dinitrogen, ammonia, nitric acid, phosphine, phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus pentachloride; oxides of nitrogen and oxoacids of phosphorus.

Group 16: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen; simple oxides; allotropes of sulfur; preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of dioxygen, ozone, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid; oxoacids of sulfur.

Group 17: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and metals; preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of chlorine, hydrogen chloride and interhalogen compounds; oxoacids of halogens, bleaching powder.

Group 18: Chemical properties and uses; compounds of xenon with fluorine and oxygen.

d-Block Elements

Oxidation states and their stability; standard electrode potentials; interstitial compounds; alloys; catalytic properties; applications; preparation, structure, and reactions of oxoanions of chromium and manganese.

f-Block Elements

Lanthanoid and actinoid contractions; oxidation states; general characteristics.

Coordination Compounds

Werner’s theory; Nomenclature, cis-trans and ionization isomerism, hybridization and geometries (linear, tetrahedral, square planar and octahedral) of mononuclear coordination compounds; Bonding [VBT and CFT (octahedral and tetrahedral fields)]; Magnetic properties (spin-only) and

colour of 3d-series coordination compounds; Ligands and spectrochemical series; Stability; Importance and applications; Metal carbonyls.

Isolation of Metals

Metal ores and their concentration; extraction of crude metal from concentrated ores: thermodynamic (iron, copper, zinc) and electrochemical (aluminium) principles of metallurgy; cyanide process (silver and gold); refining.

Principles of Qualitative Analysis

Groups I to V (only Ag+, Hg2+, Cu2+, Pb2+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Al3+, Ca2+, Ba2+, Zn2+, Mn2+ and Mg2+); Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride), carbonate and bicarbonate, sulphate and sulphide.

Environmental Chemistry

Atmospheric  pollution;   water  pollution;   soil  pollution;  industrial   waste; strategies to control environmental pollution; green chemistry.

Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry

Hybridisation of carbon; σ and π-bonds; Shapes of simple organic molecules; aromaticity; Structural and geometrical isomerism; Stereoisomers and stereochemical relationship (enantiomers, diastereomers, meso) of compounds containing only up to two asymmetric centres  (R,S and E,Z configurations excluded); Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds by combustion method only; IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules (hydrocarbons, including simple cyclic hydrocarbons and their mono- functional and bi-functional derivatives only); Hydrogen bonding effects; Inductive, Resonance and Hyperconjugative effects; Acidity and basicity of organic compounds; Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage; Formation, structure and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.

Alkanes

Homologous series; Physical properties (melting points, boiling points and density) and effect of branching on them; Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections only); Preparation from alkyl halides and aliphatic carboxylic acids; Reactions: combustion, halogenation (including allylic and benzylic halogenation) and oxidation.

Alkenes and Alkynes

Physical properties (boiling points, density and dipole moments); Preparation by elimination reactions; Acid catalysed hydration (excluding the stereochemistry of addition and elimination); Metal acetylides; Reactions of alkenes with KMnO4 and ozone; Reduction of alkenes and alkynes; Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X2, HX, HOX, (X=halogen); Effect of peroxide on addition reactions; cyclic polymerization reaction of alkynes.

Benzene

Structure; Electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation, nitration, sulphonation, Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation; Effect of directing groups (monosubstituted benzene) in these reactions.

Phenols

Physical properties; Preparation, Electrophilic substitution reactions of phenol (halogenation, nitration, sulphonation); Reimer-Tiemann reaction, Kolbe reaction; Esterification; Etherification; Aspirin synthesis; Oxidation and reduction reactions of phenol.

Alkyl Halides

Rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation; Grignard reactions; Nucleophilic substitution reactions and their stereochemical aspects.

Alcohols

Physical properties; Reactions: esterification, dehydration (formation of alkenes and ethers); Reactions with: sodium, phosphorus halides, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, thionyl chloride; Conversion of alcohols into aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids.

Ethers

Preparation by Williamson’s synthesis; C-O bond cleavage reactions.

Aldehydes and Ketones

Preparation of: aldehydes and ketones from acid chlorides and nitriles; aldehydes from esters; benzaldehyde from toluene and benzene; Reactions: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation; Aldol condensation, Cannizzaro reaction; Haloform reaction; Nucleophilic addition reaction with RMgX, NaHSO3, HCN, alcohol, amine.

Carboxylic Acids

Physical properties; Preparation: from nitriles, Grignard reagents, hydrolysis of esters and amides; Preparation of benzoic acid from alkylbenzenes; Reactions: reduction, halogenation, formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides.

Amines

Preparation from nitro compounds, nitriles and amides; Reactions: Hoffmann bromamide degradation, Gabriel phthalimide synthesis; Reaction with nitrous acid, Azo coupling reaction of diazonium salts of aromatic amines; Sandmeyer and related reactions of diazonium salts; Carbylamine reaction, Hinsberg test, Alkylation and acylation reactions.

Haloarenes

Reactions: Fittig, Wurtz-Fittig; Nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding benzyne mechanism and cine substitution).

Biomolecules

Carbohydrates: Classification; Mono- and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose); Oxidation; Reduction; Glycoside formation and hydrolysis of disaccharides (sucrose, maltose, lactose); Anomers.

Proteins: Amino acids; Peptide linkage; Structure of peptides (primary and secondary); Types of proteins (fibrous and globular).

Nucleic acids: Chemical composition and structure of DNA and RNA.

Polymers

Types of polymerization (addition, condensation); Homo and copolymers; Natural rubber; Cellulose; Nylon; Teflon; Bakelite; PVC; Bio-degradable polymers; Applications of polymers.

Chemistry in Everyday Life

Drug-target interaction; Therapeutic action, and examples (excluding structures), of antacids, antihistamines, tranquilizers, analgesics, antimicrobials, and antifertility drugs; Artificial sweeteners (names only); Soaps, detergents, and cleansing action.

Practical Organic Chemistry

Detection of elements (N, S, halogens); Detection and identification of the following functional groups: hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and ketone), carboxyl, amino and nitro.

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1. Who is eligible for attempting JEE Advanced?

Aspirants are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced only if they are among the top 2.5 lakhs scorers who qualify for the JEE Main.

2. Why is the JEE Advanced conducted?

JEE Advanced is an examination for aspirants who aim to get admission in undergraduate programs in Architecture, Engineering or Science programs offered by the Indian Institutes of India.

3. How many topics does the JEE Adv Chemistry Syllabus contain?

The JEE Advanced Chemistry Syllabus 2022 is separated into 3 sections: Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry. Physical Chemistry contains 11 topics. Inorganic Chemistry contains 7 topics. Organic Chemistry contains 10 topics which are further detailed.