Chemistry

Topics (13)

• 1
  Physical Chemistry
• 2
  Inorganic Chemistry
• 3
  Organic Chemistry
• 4
  Analytical Chemistry
• 5
  Industrial Chemistry
• 6
  Electrochemistry

  Conductance, Kohlrausch's law, electrode potentials, Nernst equation, fuel cells, corrosion.

• 7
  Chemical Kinetics

  Rate and molecularity, orders of reaction, collision and transition-state theories, Arrhenius equation.

• 8
  Surface Chemistry and Catalysis

  Adsorption isotherms, colloids, surfactants, phase rule, homogeneous and enzyme catalysis.

• 9
  Fundamentals of Chemometrics

  Sampling, errors, ANOVA, statistical tests, least squares method, Gaussian distribution.

• 10
  Separation Methods

  Solvent extraction, chromatography (paper, TLC, column, ion exchange) and electrophoresis.

• 11
  Biomolecules

  Carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids and enzymes.

• 12
  Metabolism

  Digestion and transport; glycolysis, citric acid cycle, gluconeogenesis, photosynthesis; biosynthesis of triglycerides and steroids.

• 13
  Chemical Industries

  Manufacturing of sugar, cement, glass, paper, fertilizers, soaps and detergents.

The reading list straight from FPSC's revised Chemistry syllabus. Build your core preparation around these texts — examiner-favoured references that questions are routinely drawn from.

1. 1

   Physical Chemistry

   Silbey, Alberty and Bawendi

2. 2

   Physical Chemistry — A Molecular Approach

   McQuarrie and Simon

3. 3

   Atkins' Physical Chemistry

   Atkins and Paula

4. 4

   Physical Chemistry

   W.J. Moore

5. 5

   Modern Analytical Chemistry

   D. Harvey

6. 6

   Quantitative Chemical Analysis

   D.C. Harris

7. 7

   Analytical Chemistry

   G.D. Christian

8. 8

   Chemometrics — Statistics and Computed Applications in Analytical Chemistry

   O. Matthios

9. 9

   Statistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry

   Miller and Miller

10. 10

    Separation Chemistry

    R.P. Budhiraja

11. 11

    Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

    Cotton and Wilkinson

12. 12

    Inorganic Chemistry

    Miessler and Tarr

13. 13

    Inorganic Chemistry

    Shriver and Atkins

14. 14

    Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry

    S.U. Chaudhary

15. 15

    Organic Chemistry

    Solomons and Fryhle

16. 16

    Organic Chemistry

    Brown, Foote, Iverson and Anslyn

17. 17

    Organic Chemistry

    John E. McMurry

18. 18

    Introduction to Spectroscopy

    Pavia, Lampman, Kriz and Vyvyan

19. 19

    Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds

    Silverstein, Webster and Kiemle

20. 20

    Organic Spectroscopy

    M. Younas

21. 21

    Stereochemistry (Basic Concepts in Chemistry)

    D.G. Morris

22. 22

    Shreve's Chemical Process Industries

    Shreve and Austin

23. 23

    Riegel's Handbook of Industrial Chemistry

    Riegel and Kent