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Class : XI Subject: Chemistry
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Periods
14 Periods
June I & II Week 1 Basic concepts of Chemistry and chemical calculations
1.1 Importance of Chemistry
1.2 Classification of matters
1.2.1 Elements and compounds
1.3 Atomic and molecular masses
1.3.1 Atomic mass
1.3.2 Average atomic mass
1.3.3 Molecular mass
1.3.4 Formula mass
1.4 Mole concept
1.4.1 Avogadro’s hypothesis
1.4.2 Mole definition
1.4.3 Molar mass
1.4.4 Molar volume
1.5 Equivalent mass
1.5.1 Equivalent mass of acid, base, salt, oxidizing agent and
reducing agent
1.6 Empirical and molecular formula
1.6.1 Definition
1.6.2 Calculation of empirical and molecular formula
1.7 Stoichiometry
 1.7.1
Stoichiometric calculations
1.7.2
Limiting reagents
1.8 Redox reaction
1.8.1
Introduction
1.8.2
Oxidation number
1.8.3
Types of redox reactions: combination reactions,
decomposition reactions, displacement reactions,
disproportionation reactions, competitive electron
transfer reactions
1.8.4 Balancing redox reactions using oxidation number
method and ion-electron method
June III & IV Week 2 Quantum mechanical model of atom 12 Periods
2.1 Brief introduction to various atom models
2.2 Dual behaviour of matter
2.3 Debroglie relation
2.4 Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
2.5 Quantum mechanical model of atom
2.6 Schrödinger equation
2.7 Quantum numbers
2.8 Atomic orbitals
2.8.1 Shapes of atomic orbitals
2.8.2 Energies of orbitals
2.8.3 Filling the orbitals
2.8.4 Aufbau Principle
2.8.5 Pauli exclusion principle
2.8.6 Hunds rule of maximum multiplicity
2.9 Electronic configuration of atoms
2.10 Stability of completely filled and half-filled orbitals
July I week 3 Periodic classification of elements 10 Periods
3.1 Need for classification of elements
3.2 Modern periodic law
3.3 Nomenclature of elements
3.4 Classification of elements based on electronic
configurations
3.5 Periodic trends in physical properties
3.5.1 Atomic and ionic radius
3.5.2 Ionisation enthalpy
3.5.3 Electron-gain enthalpy (Electron affinity)
3.5.4 Electronegativity
3.6 Periodic trends in chemical properties
3.6.1 Periodicity of valence and oxidation states
3.7 Anomalous properties of second period elements
3.7.1 Diagonal relationship
7 Periods
July III Week 4 Hydrogen and hydrides
4.1 Position of hydrogen in the periodic table
4.2 Isotopes of hydrogen
4.3 Ortho and para hydrogen
4.4 Preparation of hydrogen
4.4.1 Laboratory preparation
4.4.2 Commercial production of hydrogen
4.5 Properties of hydrogen
4.5.1 Physical Properties
4.5.2 Chemical Properties
4.6 Uses of Hydrogen
4.7 Hydrides and their classification
4.8 Water
 4.8.1 Physical Properties
4.8.2 Chemical Properties
4.8.3 Heavy water
4.9 Hydrogen peroxide
4.9.1 Preparation
4.9.2 Structure
4.9.3 Physical properties
4.9.4 Chemical properties
4.9.5 Applications
July IV Week I Mid Term Examination

5 Alkali and alkaline earth metals 8 Periods

August I & II Week
5.1 Introduction to s-block elements
5.2 Alkali metals:
5.2.1 General characteristics of alkali metals: Electronic
configuration, atomic and ionic radii, common
oxidation states, ionisation enthalpy, hydration
enthalpy
5.2.2 Physical and chemical properties of alkali metals
5.2.3 Applications of alkali metals
5.2.4 Compounds of alkali metals: Oxides, hydroxides,
halides, salts of oxo acids – general characteristics
5.2.5 Biological importance of sodium and potassium
5.3 Alkaline earth metals
5.3.1 General Characteristics of Alkaline earth metals:
Electronic configuration, atomic and ionic radii,
common oxidation states, ionisation enthalpy,
hydration enthalpy
 5.3.2 Physical and chemical properties of alkaline earth
metals
5.3.3 Applications of alkaline earth metals
5.3.4 Compounds of alkaline earth metals: Oxides,
hydroxides, halides, salts of oxo acids – general
characteristics
5.3.5 Important compounds of calcium: Quick lime, slake
lime, gypsum and plaster of paris
5.3.6 Biological importance of magnesium and calcium
August Practical Salt analysis ( 3 Salts)

8 Periods
July II Week 6 Gaseous state
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The gas Laws: Boyle’s law, Charles law,
6.2.1 Ideal gas equation and deviation from ideal gas
behaviour
6.3 Vander Waals equation
6.3.1 Compressibility factor
6.3.2 Relation between Vander Waals constants and critical
constants
6.4 Gay Lussac’s law, Avogadro law, Daltons law of partial
pressure, Grahams Diffusion law
6.5 Liquefaction of gases – Joule Thomson effect
6.6 Isotherms of carbon dioxide
9 Periods
August III & IV 7 Thermodynamics
Week 7.1 Introduction
7.2 Systems and surroundings
 7.2.1 Types of system
7.2.2 Properties of the system
7.2.3 Thermodynamic processes: reversible, irreversible,
adiabatic, isothermal, isobaric, isochoric, cyclic
7.3 Internal energy and work
7.4 First law of thermodynamics
7.4.1 Mathematical statement of the first law
7.5 Enthalpy
7.5.1 Relationship between ∆H and ∆U
7.5.2 Thermo-chemical equations
7.6 Enthalpy changes for different types of reactions and
phase transformations
October I Week 7.7 Measurement of ∆H and ∆U using calorimetry 9 Periods
7.8 Hess law of constant heat summation
7.9 Lattice enthalpy: Born – Haber cycle
7.10 Need for second law of thermodynamics
7.11 Various statements of the second law
7.12 Meaning of entropy
7.12.1 Significance of entropy
7.12.2 Gibbs free energy and its significance
7.12.3 Criteria for spontaneity of a process
7.12.4 Relationship between ∆G and equilibrium constant
Third law of thermodynamics (Statement only)
September I Week Quarterly Portion Revision

10 Periods
September Practical Salt analysis ( 5 Salts)
September II Week Quarterly Examination

October IV Week 8 Physical and chemical equilibrium 8 Periods

8.1 Introduction to physical equilibrium: Solid–liquid,
liquid–vapour, solid– vapour
8.2 Equilibrium in chemical process – dynamic
equilibrium
8.3 Homogeneous and heterogeneous equilibrium
8.4 Law of mass action
8.4.1 Equilibrium constants Kp and Kc
8.4.2 Relation between Kp and Kc
8.4.3 Applications of equilibrium constants
8.4.4 Predicting the extent of a reaction
8.4.5 Predicting the direction of a reaction
8.5 Lechatelier’s principle
8.5.1 Effect of concentration
8.5.2 Effect of pressure
8.5.3 Effect of temperature
8.5.4 Effect of a catalyst
8.5.5 Effect of inert gas
8.5.6 Vant – Hoff equation
10 Periods
November I Week 9 Solutions and colligative properties
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Types of solutions
9.3 Expressing concentration of solutions: Molarity,
molality, normality, mole fraction, percentage by mass
(w/v), percentage by volume (v/v), parts per million
(ppm)
 9.3.1 Principles of preparing standard solution and working
standards
9.4 Henry’s Law
9.5 Vapour pressure of liquid solutions
9.6 Raoult’s law for volatile and non-volatile solutes
9.6.1 Ideal and non-ideal solutes
9.6.2 Factors responsible for deviation from Raoult’slaw
9.7 Colligative properties
9.7.1 Definition and examples
9.7.2 Relative lowering of vapour pressure
9.7.3 Depression of freezing point
9.7.4 Elevation of boiling point
9.7.5 Osmosis and osmotic pressure
9.8 Abnormal molecular mass
9.8.1 Dissociation and association
9.8.2 Vant Hoff factor
January II & III 10 Chemical Bonding 14 Periods
Week 10.1 Kossel – Lewis approach to chemical bonding and octet
rule
10.2 Type of chemical bonds
10.2.1 Ionic bond (Electro valent bond)
10.2.2 Covalent bond
10.2.3 Co-ordinate bond
10.2.4 Bonding in metals
10.3 Lewis structure
10.4 Bond parameters: Bond length, bond angle, bond
enthalpy, bond order
10.5 Resonance
 10.6 Polarity of bonds (Fajans rule)
10.7 Hybridisation
10.7.1 Orbital overlap
10.7.2 σ- and π-bonds
10.8 VSPER theory
10.8.1 Shapes of covalent molecules
10.9 Valance bond theory
10.10 Molecular orbital theory
10.10.1 Linear combination of atomic orbitals
10.10.2 Bonding in homo nuclear di-atomic molecule (H2,
Li2, B2, C2, N2 and O2)
10.10.3 Bonding in hetero nuclear di-atomic molecules
(NO, CO)
10.11 Hydrogen bonding
10.11.1 Criteria for hydrogen bonding
10.11.2 Types of hydrogen bonding
10.11.3 Significance of hydrogen bonding
October II & III 11 Fundamentals of organic Chemistry 15 Periods
Week 11.1 Introduction
11.2 Classification of organic compounds
11.3 Structural representation of organic compounds
11.4 Nomenclature of organic compounds
11.4.1 IUPAC rules for naming organic compounds
(Aliphatic, alicyclic, and aromatic compounds)
11.5 Isomerism in organic compounds
11.5.1 Structural isomerism
11.5.2 Stereo isomerism: Geometrical & optical isomers
11.6 Detection of elements in organic compounds:
 Carbon and hydrogen, Nitrogen, Sulphur, Halogens,
Phosphorus
11.7 Estimation of elements: Carbon and hydrogen,
Nitrogen, Halogens, Sulphur, Phosphorus
11.8 Purification of organic compounds
11.8.1 Sublimation
11.8.2 Crystallisation
11.8.3 Distillation, fraction distillation
11.8.4 Steam distillation
11.8.5 Azeotropic distillation
11.8.6 Differential extraction
11.8.7 Chromatography: Adsorption, column, thin layer,
partition Chromatography
October III Week 12 Organic reactions and mechanisms 10 Periods
12.1 Fundamental concepts in organic reaction
mechanism
12.1.1 Fission of a co-valent bond
12.1.2 Nucleophiles, electrophiles and free radicals
12.1.3 Electron displacement affects: inductive effect,
electrometric effect, resonance effect, hyper
conjugation and mesomeric effect
12.2 Types of organic reactions
12.2.1 Substitution reactions: nucleophilic, electrophilic,
free radical
12.2.2 Addition reactions
12.2.3 Elimination reactions
12.2.4 Oxidation reactions
12.2.5 Reduction reactions
 12.2.6 Molecular rearrangements
12.3 Functional group inter conversions

November II Week 13 Hydrocarbons 14 Periods

13.1 Introduction and classification
13.2 Alkanes
13.2.1 Preparation of alkanes
13.2.2 Properties (Physical and chemical properties)and
uses of alkanes
13.2.3 Conformers of alkanes
13.3 Alkenes
13.3.1 Preparation of alkenes
13.3.2 Properties (Physical and chemical properties)and
uses of alkenes
13.3.3 Markovnikov and anti-markovnikov addition
reactions and mechanism
13.4 Alkynes
13.4.1 Preparation alkynes
13.4.1.1 Properties and uses
November III Week Second Mid Term Examination

November IV Week 13.5 Aromatic hydrocarbons

13.5.1 Aromaticity – Huckel Rule
13.5.2 Structure of Benzene
13.5.3 Preparation of Benzene
13.5.4 Aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions
13.5.5 Mechanism of aromatic electrophilic substitutions
reactions
 Directive influence of functional group in mono
substituted benzene

December Practical Salt analysis ( 5 Salts)

December I Week 14 Halo-alkanes and halo-arenes 14 Periods

14.1 Haloalkanes
14.1.1 Introduction, classification, nomenclature and
nature of C- X bond.
14.1.2 Preparation (from alkanes, alkenes, alkyl halides,
alcohols)
14.1.3 Physical properties
14.1.4 Chemical properties –stereo chemical aspects of
nucleophilic substitution reactions (SN1 and SN2
mechanisms), elimination reactions (E1 and
E2mechanisms)
14.1.5 Uses of halo alkanes.
14.2 Organo metallic compounds
14.2.1 Introduction,
14.2.2 Preparation and synthetic uses of Grignard reagent.
January I Week 14.3 Halo arenes
14.3.1 Preparation of chlorobenzene (from toluene and
aniline)
14.3.2 Physical properties
14.3.3 Chemical properties: Nucleophilic and electrophilic
substitutionsand reaction with metals (Wurtz-
Fitting and Fittig reactions)
14.4 Polyhalogen compounds
 14.4.1 Formation of DDT
14.4.2 Uses and environmental effects of dichloro methane,
trichloro methane, tetrachloro methane, iodoform,
freons and DDT.
December II Week Half Yearly Examination

January IV Week 15 Environmental chemistry 5 Periods

15.1 Environmental Pollution
15.2 Types of environmental pollution (air, water and soil
pollution)
15.3 Particulate pollutants
15.4 Greenhouse effect and global warming
15.5 Acid rain and its effect
15.6 Ozone hole
15.7 Strategies to control environmental pollutions
15.8 Green Chemistry
January Practical Salt analysis ( 2 Salts)