JEE Advanced Chemistry Syllabus 2025 (Released)

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Chemistry

• Coordination compounds: isomerism, bonding, and reactivity

• Polymers: classification, properties, and synthesis

• Biomolecules: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids

• Reduction in the number of organic reactions

• Simplification of certain concepts, such as reducing the complexity of chemical bonding and stoichiometry

• Greater emphasis on fundamental principles

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JEE Advanced Physics Syllabus 2025

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Section A

Chapter Name

Topics

General Topics

• Concept of atoms and molecules; Dalton’s atomic theory; Mole concept; Chemical formulae; Balanced chemical equations.

• Calculations (based on mole concept and stoichiometry) involving common oxidation-reduction, neutralisation, and displacement reactions.

• Concentration in terms of mole fraction, molarity, molality and normality. 

States of Matter: Gases and Liquids 

• Gas laws and ideal gas equation, absolute scale of temperature; Deviation from ideality, van der Waals equation.

• Kinetic theory of gases, average, root mean square and most probable velocities and their relation with temperature; Law of partial pressures, Diffusion of gases. 

• Intermolecular interactions: types, distance dependence, and their effect on properties

• Liquids: vapour pressure, surface tension, viscosity.

Atomic Structure 

• Bohr model, spectrum of hydrogen atom; Wave-particle duality, de Broglie hypothesis; Uncertainty principle; 

• Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of hydrogen atom: Energies, quantum numbers, wave function and probability density (plots only), shapes of s, p and d orbitals;

• Aufbau principle; Pauli’s exclusion principle and Hund’s rule.

Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

• Orbital overlap and covalent bond; Hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals only; Molecular orbital energy diagrams for homonuclear diatomic species (up to Ne2); Hydrogen bond; Polarity in molecules, dipole moment.

• VSEPR model and shapes of molecules (linear, angular, triangular, square planar, pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).

Chemical Thermodynamics 

• Intensive and extensive properties, state functions, First law of thermodynamics; Internal energy, work (pressure-volume only) and heat; Enthalpy, heat capacity, standard state, Hess’s law;

• Enthalpy of reaction, fusion and vapourization, and lattice enthalpy; 

• Second law of thermodynamics; Entropy; Gibbs energy; Criteria of equilibrium and spontaneity.

Chemical and Ionic Equilibrium 

• Law of mass action; Significance of $\Delta G$ and $\Delta G^\ominus$ in chemical equilibrium; Equilibrium constant (Kp and Kc) and reaction quotient, Le Chatelier’s principle (effect of concentration, temperature and pressure); 

• Solubility product and its applications, common ion effect, pH and buffer solutions;

• Acids and bases (Bronsted and Lewis concepts); Hydrolysis of salts.

Electrochemistry

• Electrochemical cells and cell reactions; Standard electrode potentials; Electrochemical work, Nernst equation; 

• Electrochemical series, emf of galvanic cells; Faraday’s laws of electrolysis;

• Electrolytic conductance, specific, equivalent and molar conductivity, Kohlrausch’s law;

• Batteries: Primary and Secondary, fuel cells; Corrosion.

Chemical Kinetics 

• Rates of chemical reactions; Order and molecularity of reactions; Rate law, rate constant, half-life;

• Differential and integrated rate expressions for zero and first order reactions; 

• Temperature dependence of rate constant (Arrhenius equation and activation energy); 

• Catalysis: Homogeneous and heterogeneous, activity and selectivity of solid catalysts, enzyme catalysis and its mechanism.

Solid State

• Classification of solids, crystalline state, seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, b, c, α, β, γ), close-packed structure of solids (cubic and hexagonal), packing in fcc, bcc and hcp lattices; 

• Nearest neighbours, ionic radii and radius ratio, point defects. 

Solutions

• Henry’s law; Raoult’s law; Ideal solutions; 

• Colligative properties: lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point, depression of freezing point, and osmotic pressure; 

• van’t Hoff factor.

Surface Chemistry

• Elementary concepts of adsorption: Physisorption and Chemisorption, Freundlich adsorption isotherm; 

• Colloids: types, methods of preparation and general properties; 

• Elementary ideas of emulsions, surfactants and micelles (only definitions and examples). 

Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties

• Modern periodic law and the present form of periodic table; electronic configuration of elements;

• Periodic trends in atomic radius, ionic radius, ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy, valence, oxidation states, electronegativity, and chemical reactivity. 

Hydrogen

• Position of hydrogen in periodic table, occurrence, isotopes, preparation, properties and uses of hydrogen; hydrides – ionic, covalent and interstitial; 

• Physical and chemical properties of water, heavy water; hydrogen peroxide-preparation, reactions, use and structure; hydrogen as a fuel.

S-Block Elements 

• Alkali and alkaline earth metals-reactivity towards air, water, dihydrogen, halogens, acids; their reducing nature including solutions in liquid ammonia; uses of these elements; 

• General characteristics of their oxides, hydroxides, halides, salts of oxoacids; anomalous behaviour of lithium and beryllium; preparation, properties, and uses of compounds of sodium (sodium carbonate, sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, sodium hydrogen carbonate) and calcium (calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, calcium carbonate, calcium sulphate).

P-Block Elements

• Oxidation state and trends in chemical reactivity of elements of groups 13-17; anomalous properties of boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and fluorine with respect to other elements in their respective groups.

• Group 13: Reactivity towards acids, alkalis, and halogens; preparation, properties, and uses of borax, orthoboric acid, diborane, boron trifluoride, aluminium chloride, and alums; uses of boron and aluminium. 

• Group 14: Reactivity towards water and halogen; allotropes of carbon and uses of carbon; preparation, properties, and uses of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, silicon dioxide, silicones, silicates, zeolites.

• Group 15: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen; allotropes of phosphorous; preparation, properties, and uses of dinitrogen, ammonia, nitric acid, phosphine, phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus pentachloride; oxides of nitrogen and oxoacids of phosphorus.

• Group 16: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and halogen; simple oxides; allotropes of sulfur; preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of dioxygen, ozone, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid; oxoacids of sulfur.

• Group 17: Reactivity towards hydrogen, oxygen, and metals; preparation/manufacture, properties, and uses of chlorine, hydrogen chloride and interhalogen compounds; oxoacids of halogens, bleaching powder.

• Group 18: Chemical properties and uses; compounds of xenon with fluorine and oxygen.

D-Block Elements

• Oxidation states and their stability; standard electrode potentials; interstitial compounds; alloys; catalytic properties; applications; preparation, structure, and reactions of oxoanions of chromium and manganese.

F-Block Elements

• Lanthanoid and actinoid contractions; oxidation states; general characteristics. 

Coordination Compounds

• Werner’s theory; Nomenclature, cis-trans and ionization isomerism, hybridization and geometries (linear, tetrahedral, square planar and octahedral) of mononuclear coordination compounds;

• Bonding [VBT and CFT (octahedral and tetrahedral fields)]; Magnetic properties (spin-only) and colour of 3d-series coordination compounds; Ligands and spectrochemical series; Stability; Importance and applications; Metal carbonyls.

Isolation of Metals

• Metal ores and their concentration; extraction of crude metal from concentrated ores: thermodynamic (iron, copper, zinc) and electrochemical (aluminium) principles of metallurgy; cyanide process (silver and gold); refining.

Principles of Qualitative Analysis

• Groups I to V (only $Ag^+ , Hg^{2+}, Cu^{2+}, Pb^{2+}, Fe^{3+}, Cr^{3+}, Al^{3+}, Ca^{2+}, Ba^{2+}, Zn^{2+}, Mn^{2+}$ and $Mg^{2+}$);

• Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride), carbonate and bicarbonate, sulphate and sulphide.

Environmental Chemistry 

• Atmospheric pollution; water pollution; soil pollution; industrial waste; strategies to control environmental pollution; green chemistry.

Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry 

• Hybridisation of carbon; σ and π-bonds; Shapes of simple organic molecules; aromaticity; Structural and geometrical isomerism; 

• Stereoisomers and stereochemical relationship (enantiomers, diastereomers, meso) of compounds containing only up to two asymmetric centres (R,S and E,Z configurations excluded); 

• Determination of empirical and molecular formulae of simple compounds by combustion method only; 

• IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules (hydrocarbons, including simple cyclic hydrocarbons and their mono-functional and bi-functional derivatives only); 

• Hydrogen bonding effects; Inductive, Resonance and Hyperconjugative effects;

• Acidity and basicity of organic compounds; Reactive intermediates produced during homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage; Formation, structure and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.

Alkanes

• Homologous series; Physical properties (melting points, boiling points and density) and effect of branching on them; Conformations of ethane and butane (Newman projections only); 

• Preparation from alkyl halides and aliphatic carboxylic acids; Reactions: combustion, halogenation (including allylic and benzylic halogenation) and oxidation. 

Alkenes and Alkynes

• Physical properties (boiling points, density and dipole moments); Preparation by elimination reactions; Acid catalysed hydration (excluding the stereochemistry of addition and elimination);

• Metal acetylides; Reactions of alkenes with KMnO4 and ozone; Reduction of alkenes and alkynes;

• Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes with X2, HX, HOX, (X=halogen); Effect of peroxide on addition reactions; cyclic polymerization reaction of alkynes. 

Benzene

• Structure; Electrophilic substitution reactions: halogenation, nitration, sulphonation, Friedel Crafts alkylation and acylation; 

• Effect of directing groups (monosubstituted benzene) in these reactions.

Phenols

• Physical properties; Preparation, Electrophilic substitution reactions of phenol (halogenation, nitration, sulphonation); 

• Reimer-Tiemann reaction, Kolbe reaction; Esterification; Etherification; Aspirin synthesis; Oxidation and reduction reactions of phenol.

Alkyl Halides

• Rearrangement reactions of alkyl carbocation; Grignard reactions; 

• Nucleophilic substitution reactions and their stereochemical aspects. 

Alcohols

• Physical properties; Reactions: esterification, dehydration (formation of alkenes and ethers);

• Reactions with: sodium, phosphorus halides, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, thionyl chloride;

• Conversion of alcohols into aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids.

Ethers

• Preparation by Williamson’s synthesis; C-O bond cleavage reactions.

Aldehydes and Ketones

• Preparation of: aldehydes and ketones from acid chlorides and nitriles; aldehydes from esters; benzaldehyde from toluene and benzene; 

• Reactions: oxidation, reduction, oxime and hydrazone formation; Aldol condensation, Cannizzaro reaction; Haloform reaction; Nucleophilic addition reaction with RMgX, NaHSO3, HCN, alcohol, amine.

Carboxylic Acids

• Physical properties; Preparation: from nitriles, Grignard reagents, hydrolysis of esters and amides;

• Preparation of benzoic acid from alkylbenzenes; Reactions: reduction, halogenation, formation of esters, acid chlorides and amides. 

Amines

• Preparation from nitro compounds, nitriles and amides; Reactions: Hoffmann bromamide degradation, Gabriel phthalimide synthesis; Reaction with nitrous acid, Azo coupling reaction of diazonium salts of aromatic amines; 

• Sandmeyer and related reactions of diazonium salts;

• Carbylamine reaction, Hinsberg test, Alkylation and acylation reactions.

Haloarenes

• Reactions: Fittig, Wurtz-Fittig; Nucleophilic aromatic substitution in haloarenes and substituted haloarenes (excluding benzyne mechanism and cine substitution). 

Biomolecules

• Carbohydrates: Classification; Mono- and di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose); Oxidation; Reduction; Glycoside formation and hydrolysis of disaccharides (sucrose, maltose, lactose); Anomers.

• Proteins: Amino acids; Peptide linkage; Structure of peptides (primary and secondary); Types of proteins (fibrous and globular).

• Nucleic acids: Chemical composition and structure of DNA and RNA. 

Polymers

• Types of polymerization (addition, condensation); Homo and copolymers; Natural rubber; Cellulose; Nylon; Teflon; Bakelite; PVC; Bio-degradable polymers; Applications of polymers.

Chemistry in Everyday Life

• Drug-target interaction; Therapeutic action, and examples (excluding structures), of antacids, antihistamines, tranquilizers, analgesics, antimicrobials, and antifertility drugs; 

• Artificial sweeteners (names only); Soaps, detergents, and cleansing action. 

Practical Organic Chemistry 

• Detection of elements (N, S, halogens); Detection and identification of the following functional groups: hydroxyl (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl (aldehyde and ketone), carboxyl, amino and nitro. 

JEE Advanced Chemistry – Weightage of Chapters

Topics

No of Questions

Marks

Weightage
(in %)

Inorganic Chemistry-II

9

33

28

Organic Chemistry-II

10

32

27

Physical Chemistry-I

9

24

20

Physical Chemistry-II

8

23

19

Aromatic Compounds

3

12

10

Coordination Compounds

3

11

9

Qualitative Analysis

3

10

8

Hydrocarbon (Alkane, Alkene & Alkyne)

3

9

8

Organic Chemistry-I

2

8

7

Equivalent Concept

4

8

7

Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry

2

8

7

Electrochemistry

3

8

7

Metallurgy

1

4

3

p-Block 17-18 Group

1

4

3

p-block (15-16 Grp)

1

4

3

Hydrocarbon

1

4

3

Practical Organic Chemistry

1

4

3

Biomolecules

1

4

3

Stereoisomerism

1

3

3

Aldehyde Ketone

2

4

3

Atomic Structure & Nuclear Chemistry

1

4

3

Chemical Equilibrium

2

4

3

Chemical Kinetics

1

4

3

Solid State

1

3

3

Surface Chemistry

1

4

3

Solution & Colligative Properties

2

4

3

Total

38

120

100

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Author/Publications

Reasons why this Book Stands Out as the Best Choice for JEE Advanced Chemistry

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Comprehensive coverage of topics, clear explanations, practice problems

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