1. Subject-Specific: Forensic Science & Toxicology

i. General Forensic Science

• Definition, History & Development of Forensic Science.
• Principles and scope of Forensic Science.
• Organizational Structure of FSLs/Institutions in India.
• Crime Scene Management: Evidence types, Chain of Custody, Integrity of Evidence.
• Standard Operating Instructions for collection of Physical and Digital evidence.
• Quality Control, Assurance, Frye Standard, and Daubert Standard.

ii. Toxicology

• Poison Fundamentals: Definition, classification, poisoning types, and routes of administration (ADME).
• Lethal Dose: Understanding LD50 and isolation of poison from biological specimens.
• Analytical Chemistry: Qualitative and Quantitative analysis of toxicants, corrosive, and irritant poisons.
• Alcohol Analysis: Estimation of liquor in breath, blood, and urine. Analysis of Methanol, Ethanol, Acetone, and Chloroform.
• Gases & Alkaloids: CO and other poisonous gases. Alkaloids definition, classification, and properties. Preliminary screening for drugs of abuse.

2. Subject-Specific: Chemistry (Graduation Level)

i. Inorganic Chemistry

• Atomic Structure: Bohr’s theory, de Broglie’s relation, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Schrodinger wave equation ($\psi$ and $\psi^2$), Quantum numbers, and Slater rules.
• Chemical Bonding: Lattice/Solvation energy, Born-Haber cycle, Fajan’s rules, VSEPR theory, Hybridization, and MO Approach (LCAO method).
• Elements & Periodic Table: Hydrogen (isotopes, hydrides), S-Block (periodicity), P-Block (Borohydrides, Fullerenes, Oxoacids), Noble Gases (Xenon compounds), and Lanthanides/Actinides (contraction and separation).
• Non-Aqueous Solvents: Solution chemistry of $H_2SO_4$ and Liquid $BrF_3$.
• Acids and Bases: Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, Lewis, and HSAB concept.
• Coordination Chemistry: Crystal Field Theory (CFSE), Jahn-Teller distortion, Magnetochemistry, and Metal $\pi$ Complexes (Carbonyls/Nitrosyls).
• Analytical Chemistry: Data Analysis (Error types, F-test, t-test, Q-test), Nuclear Chemistry (Binding energy, Fission, Fusion, Tracer techniques).
• Bio-Inorganic: Metalloporphyrins (Chlorophyll), Metalloenzymes, Oxygen Carriers (Hemoglobin/Myoglobin), and Ion transport ($Na^+/K^+$ pump).

ii. Organic Chemistry

• Fundamentals: Inductive, Electromeric, Resonance effects. Reactive Intermediates (Carbocations, Carbanions, Free radicals).
• Stereochemistry: Chirality, Configuration (R/S and E/Z), CIP Rules, Racemization, and Prochirality.
• Hydrocarbons: Preparation and reactions of Alkanes, Alkenes (Saytzeff’s rule, Ozonolysis), Alkynes, and Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Friedel-Craft’s).
• Derivatives: Alkyl/Aryl Halides ($S_N1$, $S_N2$, $S_Ni$ mechanisms), Alcohols (Lucas test, Pinacol-Pinacolone), Phenols (Reimer-Tiemann), Ethers, and Aldehydes/Ketones (Aldol, Cannizzaro, Wittig).
• Polynuclear Hydrocarbons: Naphthalene, Anthracene, and Phenanthrene. Petrochemicals and Synthetic Dyes.
• Biomolecules: Carbohydrates (Glucose/Fructose), Amino Acids (Zwitterion, Merrifield synthesis), Nucleic Acids (DNA Watson-Crick model, RNA types).
• Spectroscopy: UV-Visible (Woodward rules), IR (Functional groups), NMR (Chemical shift, Splitting), and Mass Spectrometry (McLafferty rearrangement, Nitrogen rule).
• Specialized Topics: Photochemistry (Norrish Type I & II), Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics.

iii. Physical Chemistry

• States of Matter: Kinetic Theory of Gases (van der Waals), Liquids (Surface tension, Viscosity), and Solids (Miller indices, Bragg’s law).
• Thermodynamics: Laws of Thermodynamics, Chemical Energetics (Kirchhoff’s equation), Statistical Thermodynamics (Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac).
• Chemical Kinetics: Integrated rate equations (Zero, 1st, 2nd order), Collision theory, and Corrosion theories.
• Equilibrium: Phase Equilibrium (Gibbs Phase Rule, Clausius-Clapeyron), Chemical Equilibrium, and Ionic Equilibrium (pH scale, Buffer solutions).
• Electrochemistry: Kohlrausch law, Transference number, EMF, Nernst equation, and Conductometric titrations.
• Quantum Chemistry: Hermitian operator, Schrodinger equations (Time-dependent/independent).
• Surface Chemistry: Adsorption (Langmuir isotherm, Catalysis).
• Molecular Spectroscopy: Raman Spectroscopy, Electronic Spectroscopy (Franck-Condon, Jablonski Diagram), Rotation/Vibration Spectroscopy.

3. Part B: General Awareness (Matric Standard)