About author : Dr. A. Ahmed Raza (AAR) works as an Assistant Professor in the Post Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, C. Abdul Hakeem College (Autonomous), Melvisharam, Ranipet – District, Tamilnadu. Earlier AAR completed his Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) (2006-2009) from Islamiah college, affiliated to Thiruvalluvar University, Tamil Nadu, India. Then AAR completed his Master of Science (Chemistry) (2009-2011) from The New College (Autonomous), affiliated to University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. AAR obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Thiruvalluvar University – Vellore and has published research papers in reputed journals such as Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Reactive and functional polymers, Current Catalysis etc. AAR has attended and presented papers in national and international seminars and conferences. AAR has cleared CSIR-NET JRF examinations twice and has twelve years of teaching experience to the UG and PG students of chemistry especially Inorganic Chemistry. AAR also handles classes for competitive examinations such as NEET, TRB, SET, GATE and CSIR-NET. Dr. Seenu Ravi (SR) working as a research professor at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Earlier SR completed his Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) (2006-2009) from Islamiah college, affiliated to Thiruvalluvar University, Tamil Nadu, India. Then completed his Master of Science (Chemistry) (2009-2011) from The New College (Autonomous), affiliated to University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. Then he pursued his Ph.D. at Pusan National University (2012-2015), South Korea. Dr. SR has gained more than 7 years of postdoctoral research experience. During his postdoc research career, he has guided several masters and PhD students. SR has gained research experience and greatly developed his research knowledge by working at different institutes including Inha university (2016-2018), Seoul national university (2018-2020) and Yonsei university (2020-present). His Major research is focused on the synthesis of v

About book : This book is for the postgraduate students of chemistry aspiring to crack competitive examinations such as CSIR-NET, GATE, SLET/SET and PhD entrance examinations. Presently, admission to PhD programs in premier institutions like IITs, NITs, CSIR laboratories, central universities and state universities is based on either NET/GATE certificate or PhD entrance examinations. Further, the minimum eligibility criteria laid by UGC for the direct recruitment of Assistant Professors in the higher educational institutions is a postgraduate degree with NET/SLET/SET certificate. Thus, the students are bound to pass these examinations to pursue a bright career either in research or in academic teaching. The cut off for qualifying these exams is 40 to 50%. However, the qualifying percentage of the candidates appearing for these examinations is around 5% only. Therefore, an attempt has been made by authors to develop study material pertaining to the syllabus of these exams along with the solved problems from the previous year question papers which will guide the students to qualify easily. This book focuses only on the selected topics in Inorganic Chemistry. The syllabus of Inorganic Chemistry for the competitive examinations has twelve topics. The first six topics viz., chemical periodicity, chemical bonding, acid base concept, main group elements, d-block elements and coordination chemistry, f-block elements have been covered in the present Part-I book. The remaining six topics will be discussed in the Part-II of this book. To explain the concepts, only the necessary points have been discussed in this text which will greatly save the time of the students contrary to the standard text books where the contents are elaborate and detail. The figures and tabular columns provide explanation, data and better understanding to the reader. More than 550 inorganic chemistry questions from June’ 2011 to June’ 2023 of CSIR-NET chemical sciences, 2000 to 2023 of Gate chemistry and some