NPTEL : NOC:Quantum Chemistry of Atoms and Molecules (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Anindya Datta


Lecture 1 - Basic Introduction

Lecture 2 - Bohr Model and Beyond

Lecture 3 - The wave nature of matter

Lecture 4 - Ground Rules: Postulates of Quantum mechanics - Part I

Lecture 5 - Ground Rules: Postulates of Quantum mechanics - Part II

Lecture 6 - Particle in a box - Part I

Lecture 7 - Particle in a box - Part II

Lecture 8 - Particle in a box - Part III

Lecture 9 - Particle in a box - Uncertainity Priciple

Lecture 10 - Particle in a box - Uncertainity Priciple (Continued...)

Lecture 11 - Quantum Mechanical Tunneling

Lecture 12 - Harmonic Oscillator - Part 1

Lecture 13 - Harmonic Oscillator - Part 2

Lecture 14 - Harmonic Oscillator - Part 3

Lecture 15 - Harmonic Oscillators - Wave Functions and Recursion formulae

Lecture 16 - Harmonic Oscillators - Wave Functions and Recursion formulae (Continued...)

Lecture 17 - Harmonic Oscillators: Conclusions

Lecture 18 - Rigid Rotor - Part 1

Lecture 19 - Rigid Rotor - Part 2

Lecture 20 - Rigid Rotor - Part 3

Lecture 21 - Polar Plots of Spherical Harmonics

Lecture 22 - Angular Momentum

Lecture 23 - Angular Momentum (Continued...)

Lecture 24 - Hydrogen Atom: Schrodinger Equation

Lecture 25 - Hydrogen Atom: Schrodinger Equation (Continued...)

Lecture 26 - Hydrogen atom: Quantum numbers

Lecture 27 - Radial Probability distribution functions

Lecture 28 - Hydrogen atom wavefunctions: s orbitals

Lecture 29 - 2s orbital

Lecture 30 - 2p orbitals

Lecture 31 - 3pz and 3d orbitals

Lecture 32 - Atomic orbitals and orbital approximation

Lecture 33 - Multi electron atoms

Lecture 34 - He atom wavefunction

Lecture 35 - Excited states of many electron atoms

Lecture 36 - Introduction to Perturbation theory

Lecture 37 - Scope of Perturbation theory

Lecture 38 - Application of Perturbation theory: Anharmonic oscillator

Lecture 39 - Higher order perturbations

Lecture 40 - Perturbation theory for non-degenerate states

Lecture 41 - Perturbation Theory for degenerate states

Lecture 42 - Application of Perturbation Theory for degenerate States

Lecture 43 - Variation Method

Lecture 44 - Variational Method (Continued...)

Lecture 45 - Variational calculations for Harmonic Oscillator and Particle in a Box

Lecture 46 - Secular equations in Variational calculations

Lecture 47 - Secular equations for particle in a box

Lecture 48 - Variational calculation for particle in a box (Continued...)

Lecture 49 - Perturbation theory for many electron atoms

Lecture 50 - Variational method for many electron atoms

Lecture 51 - Hartree-Fock Equations and Self Consistent Fields

Lecture 52 - Hartree-Fock Equations for He - Part 1

Lecture 53 - Hartree-Fock Equations for He - Part 2

Lecture 54 - Electronic Wavefunctions of He atom

Lecture 55 - Valance Bond Theory and homonuclear diatomics - Part 1

Lecture 56 - Valance Bond Theory and homonuclear diatomics - Part 2

Lecture 57 - Molecular shape and hybrid orbitals

Lecture 58 - sp2 hybridization

Lecture 59 - sp3 hybridization

Lecture 60 - Non-equivalent hybrid orbitals

Lecture 61 - Molecular Orbital Theory for H2+

Lecture 62 - Molecular orbital theory for homonuclear diatomic molecules

Lecture 63 - Beyond Homonuclear diatomic molecules

Lecture 64 - MOT for polyatomic molecules

Lecture 65 - Huckel MOT-1

Lecture 66 - Huckel MOT-2

Lecture 67 - The last word