BSc Forensic Science Chemical Science II Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
This degree runs on the Choice Based Credit System throughout, items 6.10, 6.11 and 6.12 of the Academic Council of 17 May 2022, brought in one year at a time from 2022-23. The University has published no NEP 2020 syllabus for it. The University examines only the third year of this degree centrally, under exam forms 1S00815 and 1S00816; the colleges examine the first four semesters.
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Syllabus for Chemical Science II
Module I: Basics of Toxicology
- Introduction, History of toxicology, Definition of poison, Classification of poisons, characteristics and mode of action of poisons, types of poisoning; Fatal dose and fatal period, signs and symptoms of common poisoning and their antidotes. Toxicological exhibits; Significance of toxicological findings.
- Pesticides and Insecticides
- Nature, classification, composition, uses and significance in forensic science.
Module II: Electromagnetic spectrum and Electronic spectroscopy
- Electromagnetic radiation, relation between energy, wavelength, frequency, wave number; Absorption, emission, fluorescence, phosphorescence, Jablonski Diagram, Introduction to Molecular and atomic spectroscopy
- Absorption laws (Beer Lambert law), molar absorptivity, Types of electronic transitions, UV-visible spectroscopy (Principle, theory and instrumentation and applications), Effect of conjugation, Concept of chromophores and auxochromes, Bathochromic, hypsochromic, hyperchromic and hypochromic shifts; Quantitative analysis by calibration curve, Woodward-Fieser rules to calculate lambda max for diene and enone systems; Related Numerical problems.
Module III: Chromatography
- Classification of chromatography, adsorption and partition chromatography, other methods of classification of chromatography, Principle, theory, stationary phases, mobile phases, retardation factor and applications of Paper Chromatography, Column chromatography, Thin
- Layer Chromatography, etc; Forensic significance of
- these chromatographic techniques.
Module IV: Food Adulteration
- Definition of food and food adulteration, food additives and food adulterants, Relevant sections of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, Detection of common adulterants used in food products by physical and chemical methods; Related case studies and forensic significance.
- Petroleum products
- Definition, classification, distillation and fractionation of petroleum; Flash point, aniline point, ignition point, etc. Commercial uses of different petroleum fractions, nature and purpose of dyes used in petroleum products; adulteration of petroleum products.
Text books and Additional References
- 1 S.N. Tiwari: Analytical Toxicology, Govt. of India Publications, New Delhi, 1987.
- 2 Y.R. Sharma, Elementary Organic Spectroscopy, Revised Ed, S. Chand Publishing, ISBN 9788121928847, 1980
- 3 Chromatography: Concepts and Contrasts, Second Edition. By James M. Miller ISBN 0-471-47207-7, 2005, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- 4 Detect Adulteration with Rapid Test (DART) Book_FSSAI
- 5 Kinghorn: Introduction to Petrochemicals Sukumar Maiti
- 6 D.W.Waples : Geochemistry in Petroleum Exploratio
- 7 Modi, Jaisingh, P.; Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence& Toxicology, M.M. Tripathi Publication (2001)
- 8 J.M. Miller, Chromatography: Concepts and Contrasts, 2 nd Ed, Wiley Publications, ISBN 978-0-470-53025-2, 2009.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Forensic Science) under the Choice Based Credit System, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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