- The test consists of approximately 130 multiple-choice
questions.
- A periodic table is printed in the test booklet as well as a
table of information presenting various physical constants and a
few conversion factors among SI units. Whenever necessary,
additional values of physical constants are printed with the
text of the question.
- Test questions are constructed to simplify mathematical
manipulations. As a result, neither calculators nor tables of
logarithms are needed. If the solution to a problem requires the
use of logarithms, the necessary values are included with the
question.
- The content of the test emphasizes the four fields into
which chemistry has been traditionally divided and some
interrelationships among the fields. Because of these
interrelationships, individual questions may test more than one
field of chemistry.
- Some examinees may associate a particular question with one
field, whereas other examinees may have encountered the same
material in a different field. For example, the knowledge
necessary to answer some questions classified as testing organic
chemistry may well have been acquired in analytical chemistry
courses by some examinees.
- Consequently, the emphases of the four fields indicated in
the following outline of material covered by the test should not
be considered definitive.
I. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY - 15%
A. Data Acquisition and Use of Statistics - Errors, statistical
considerations
B. Solutions and Standardization - Concentration terms, and
primary standards
C. Homogeneous Equilibria - Acid-base, oxidation-reduction,
complexometry
D. Heterogeneous Equilibria - Gravimetric analysis, solubility,
precipitation titrations, chemical separations
E. Instrumental Methods - Electrochemical methods,
spectroscopic methods, chromatographic methods, thermal methods,
calibration of instruments
F. Environmental Applications
G. Radiochemical Methods - Detectors, applications
II. INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - 25%
A. General Chemistry - Periodic trends, oxidation states,
nuclear chemistry
B. Ionic Substances - Lattice geometries, lattice energies,
ionic radii and radius/ratio effects
C. Covalent Molecular Substances - Lewis diagrams, molecular
point groups, VSEPR concept, valence bond description and
hybridization, molecular orbital description, bond energies,
covalent and van der Waals radii of the elements, intermolecular
forces
D. Metals and Semiconductors - Structure, band theory, physical
and chemical consequences of band theory
E. Concepts of Acids and Bases - Brønsted-Lowry approaches,
Lewis theory, solvent system approaches
F. Chemistry of the Main Group Elements - Electronic
structures, occurrences and recovery, physical and chemical
properties of the elements and their compounds
G. Chemistry of the Transition Elements - Electronic
structures, occurrences and recovery, physical and chemical
properties of the elements and their compounds, coordination
chemistry
H. Special Topics - Organometallic chemistry, catalysis,
bioinorganic chemistry, applied solid-state chemistry,
environmental chemistry
III. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - 30%
A. Structure, Bonding, and Nomenclature - Lewis structures,
orbital hybridization, configuration and stereochemical notation,
conformational analysis, systematic IUPAC nomenclature,
spectroscopy (IR and 1H and 13C NMR)
B. Functional Groups - Preparation, reactions, and
interconversions of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, dienes, alkyl
halides, alcohols, ethers, epoxides, sulfides, thiols, aromatic
compounds, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their
derivatives, amines
C. Reaction Mechanisms - Nucleophilic displacements and
addition, nucleophilic aromatic substitution, electrophilic
additions, electrophilic aromatic substitutions, eliminations,
Diels-Alder and other cycloadditions
D. Reactive Intermediates - Chemistry and nature of
carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, benzynes, enols
E. Organometallics - Preparation and reactions of Grignard and
organolithium reagents, lithium organocuprates, and other modern
main group and transition metal reagents and catalysts
F. Special Topics - Resonance, molecular orbital theory,
catalysis, acid-base theory, carbon acidity, aromaticity,
antiaromaticity, macromolecules, lipids, amino acids, peptides,
carbohydrates, nucleic acids, terpenes, asymmetric synthesis,
orbital symmetry, polymers
IV. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY - 30%
A. Thermodynamics - First, second, and third laws,
thermochemistry, ideal and real gases and solutions, Gibbs and
Helmholtz energy, chemical potential, chemical equilibria, phase
equilibria, colligative properties, statistical thermodynamics
B. Quantum Chemistry and Applications to Spectroscopy -
Classical experiments, principles of quantum mechanics, atomic and
molecular structure, molecular spectroscopy
C. Dynamics - Experimental and theoretical chemical kinetics,
solution and liquid dynamics, photochemistry
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