Comprehensive Syllabus Overview for CUET UG 2025 Chemistry: Key Concepts and Topics

Here is a comprehensive detailed syllabus structure for CUET 2025 Chemistry

Unit I: Solid State

• Classification of Solids: Molecular, ionic, covalent, and metallic solids
• Amorphous and Crystalline Solids: Elementary ideas
• Unit Cell: Two-dimensional and three-dimensional lattices, calculation of density
• Packing in Solids: Efficiency, voids, atoms per unit cell
• Point Defects: Electrical and magnetic properties
• Band Theory of Metals: Conductors, semiconductors, insulators, n and p-type semiconductors

Unit II: Solutions

• Types of Solutions
• Concentration Expressions: Solids in liquids, solubility of gases in liquids, solid solutions
• Colligative Properties: Relative lowering of vapor pressure, Raoult’s Law, elevation of boiling point, depression of freezing point, osmotic pressure
• Molecular Mass Determination: Using colligative properties, abnormal molecular mass, Van’t Hoff factor

Unit III: Electrochemistry

• Redox Reactions
• Conductance in Electrolytic Solutions: Specific and molar conductivity, variations with concentration, Kohlrausch’s Law
• Electrolysis: Elementary ideas, dry cell, electrolytic and Galvanic cells, lead accumulator
• EMF of a Cell: Standard electrode potential, Nernst equation, Gibbs energy change
• Fuel Cells and Corrosion

Unit IV: Chemical Kinetics

• Reaction Rates: Average and instantaneous rates
• Factors Affecting Rates: Concentration, temperature, catalyst
• Order and Molecularity: Rate law, specific rate constant, integrated rate equations, half-life for zero and first-order reactions
• Collision Theory: Elementary ideas, activation energy, Arrhenius equation

Unit V: Surface Chemistry

• Adsorption: Physisorption and chemisorption, factors affecting adsorption
• Catalysis: Homogeneous and heterogeneous, enzyme catalysis
• Colloids: True solutions, colloids, suspensions, lyophilic and lyophobic colloids, properties of colloids (Tyndall effect, Brownian movement, electrophoresis, coagulation)
• Emulsions: Types of emulsions

Unit VI: General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements

• Principles and Methods of Extraction: Concentration, oxidation, reduction, electrolytic method, refining
• Extraction of Metals: Aluminum, copper, zinc, and iron

Unit VII: p-Block Elements

• Group 15: Nitrogen, ammonia, nitric acid, oxides of nitrogen, phosphorus, phosphine, halides, and oxoacids
• Group 16: Dioxygen, sulfur, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid, oxoacids of sulfur
• Group 17: Halogens, chlorine, hydrochloric acid, interhalogen compounds, oxoacids of halogens
• Group 18: Noble gases and their properties

Unit VIII: d and f Block Elements

• Transition Metals: First-row transition metals, properties, preparation of K₂Cr₂O₇ and KMnO₄
• Lanthanoids and Actinoids: Electronic configuration, oxidation states, lanthanoid contraction, reactivity comparison

Unit IX: Coordination Compounds

• Introduction: Ligands, coordination number, IUPAC nomenclature, bonding (Werner’s theory, VBT, CFT), isomerism, applications in analysis, extraction, and biological systems

Unit X: Haloalkanes and Haloarenes

• Haloalkanes: Nomenclature, physical and chemical properties, substitution reactions, optical rotation
• Haloarenes: Substitution reactions, environmental effects (dichloromethane, trichloromethane, freons, DDT)

Unit XI: Alcohols, Phenols, and Ethers

• Alcohols: Nomenclature, preparation, properties, dehydration
• Phenols: Preparation, properties, electrophilic substitution
• Ethers: Preparation, properties

Unit XII: Aldehydes, Ketones, and Carboxylic Acids

• Aldehydes and Ketones: Nomenclature, preparation, properties, nucleophilic addition
• Carboxylic Acids: Nomenclature, acidic nature, preparation, properties

Unit XIII: Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen

• Amines: Nomenclature, classification, preparation, identification of primary, secondary, and tertiary amines
• Diazonium Salts: Preparation, reactions, applications in organic synthesis

Unit XIV: Biomolecules

• Carbohydrates: Classification, monosaccharides (glucose, fructose), polysaccharides (starch, cellulose)
• Proteins: Amino acids, peptide bonds, protein structure (primary to quaternary), enzymes
• Nucleic Acids: DNA and RNA structures and functions

Unit XV: Polymers

• Polymerization: Types, natural and synthetic polymers (polythene, nylon, polyesters, rubber)
• Biodegradable and Non-biodegradable Polymers

Unit XVI: Chemistry in Everyday Life

• Chemicals in Medicine: Analgesics, tranquilizers, antiseptics, disinfectants, antibiotics
• Chemicals in Food: Preservatives, sweeteners, antioxidants
• Cleansing Agents: Soaps and detergents, cleansing action