Reference Book in CHEMICAL SCIENCE

Complete list of Reference Book in CHEMICAL SCIENCE

 Special features of this list are –

•   Complete list of standard reference books for Basic level reading
•   Compilation of books for Advance reading
•   Web links are available for specific topics
•   Additional readings are given for Advance/Research Scholar

LIST OF BOOKS FOR CSIR / NET GATE PREPARATION

Organic Chemistry

Basic Reading (For Part B)

•   T. Morrison, R. N. Boyd, Organic Chemistry, 6th edition, Prentice-Hall, New Delhi, 1992. (For Basic understanding, very good for basic concepts)

•   Y. Bruice, K. J. R. Prasad, Essential Organic Chemistry, 1st edition, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2008. (Again Fundamental Organic Book) 
• Organic Reaction Mechanism by Peter Sykes (Must have for Basic Organic Mechanism) B. Smith, Organic Synthesis, McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2001

 Advance Reading (For Part C)

•   Clayden, N. Greeves, S. Warren Organic Chemistry, 2nd edition, Oxford Unviersity Press, New Delhi, 2012. (Must have for CSIR NET)

•   Carruthers and I. Coldham, Modern Methods of Organic Synthesis, 4th ed., Cambridge University Press, UK, 2004. (Advance Organic Synthesis)

•   Modern Organic Synthesis by Michael Nantz and Zweifel March,Advanced Organic Chemistry, 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Canada, 1992.

•   A. Carey and R. J. Sundberg, Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A & B, 5th ed., Springer, New York, 2007. (For Advance Readers)

•   Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds, Wiley: New York, Eleil (BEST BOOK FOR NET)

 MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

•   Spectroscopy by Donald Pavia (Excellent Book for Basic Spectroscopy) Symmetry and spectroscopy of Molecules by K Veera Reddy (Another Good book for Electronic Spectroscopy)

•   Molecular Spectroscopy by Banwell (Basic Book for Physical spectroscopy) 1H NMR and C13 NMR spectroscopy by Metin and Balcii  J. M. Hollas, Modern Spectroscopy (Fourth Edition), John Wiley &    Sons, New York, 2004. (Only For Advance Readings)

 INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

•   Inorganic Chemistry by James E. Huheey, Ellen A. Keiter, Richard R. Keiter, Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1993 (International Edition Prefereable)

•   Coordination chemistry by ramlingam Inorganic Chemistry (5th Edition) by D. F. Shriver and P. W. Atkins;   Oxford

•   Chemistry of the Elements by N N Greenwood & A Earnshaw, Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, Oxford, 2005 (Indian Reprint)

•   Inorganic Chemistry By Gary L. Miessler & Donald A. Tarr and Donald A. Tarr, Pearson, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2010

•   Concepts and Models of Inorganic Chemistry (3rd Edition) by B. E. Douglas, D. H. McDaniel, J. J. Alexander; John Wiley (Must for Advance Inorganic Chemistry)

•   Inorganic Chemistry by Gary Wulfsberg , 2006,University Science Books (For Advance Readers)

•    Biological inorganic chemistry : structure and reactivity / edited by Ivano Bertini

•   Infrared and Raman spectra of inorganic and coordination compounds by Nakamoto

•   Inorganic and organometallic polymers by Chandrasekhar, Vadapalli.

ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY

•   Basic Organometallic Chemistry: Concepts, Syntheses and Application by BD Gupta & Anil J Elias Year,2013, Universities Press (For basic Readers)

•   Organometallics: A Concise Introduction by Christoph Elschenbroich,2006, Wiley-VCH3rd Edition (Excellent Books for Advance Readings)

•   Inorganic and Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms, Atwood

•   Inorganic Spectroscopy by Drago

 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

•    Physical chemistry by Castellan

•    Physical Chemistry by KL Kapoor (VOL I – V) (must have collection of these series)

•    Physical chemistry by Mortimer (Very good book for thermodynamics & quantum chemistry)

•    Physical chemistry by Atkins (Favorite book of CSIR NET Exam Setter)

•    Physical chemistry by silbey and bawendi (For Basic Concepts)

•    Physical chemistry by Samuel Glasstone.

 QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

•    P. W. Atkins and R. S. Friedman, Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. (Must for Quantum Chemistry basics)

•    Quantum Chemistry by RK Prasad

•    J. P. Lowe and K. Petersen, Quantum Chemistry, Elsevier Academic  Press, MA, USA, 2006

•    A. K. Chandra, Quantum Chemistry, Tata McGrawHill, New Delhi, 2004  
•  Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar (For Physical aspects of Quantum Chemistry)

•    D. A. McQuarrie, Quantum Chemistry, Viva Books, New Delhi, 2003  (Must have for CSIR NET)

•    Physical chemistry by Robert G. Mortimer, Harcourt/Academic Press, c2000
•   Quantum Chemistry : through problems and solutions by RK Prasad.

 GROUP THEORY

•    Group theory by Alan Vincent

•    F. A. Cotton, Chemical applications of Group theory, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1990

•    D. M. Bishop, Group Theory and Chemistry, Dover Publications, New

    York, 1977.

 CHEMICAL KINETICS

•    Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics by Paul L. Houston /(For Advance Reading)   

•    Chemical kinetics and Reaction dynamics by Santosh Upadhyay /(For   Basic Understanding)

•    Chemical Kinetics by Ladler

 PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PERICYCLIC REACTIONS:

•    Photochemistry and pericyclic Reactions by Jagdamba Singh

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