C O N T E N T S
01. Need to redesign chemistry education in India for the 21st century learning needs 1 A. K. Bakhshi, Vimal Rarh
02. Multitude of elementary chemical reactions between the first two elements in the 5
periodic table: Topic for pedagogic discussion and contemporary research
N. Sathyamurthy
03. Colloid stability and Schulze – Hardy rule: Its origin and new inputs 9
Animesh Kumar Rakshit, Bappaditya Naskar, Satya Priya Moulik
04. Fundamentals of NMR spectroscopy 17
Ramakrishna V. Hosur
05. Alkali-containing molecular ions in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS): 25
An innovative technique for chemical analysis of quantum structures
Purushottam Chakraborty
06. Photochromic liquid crystal (PLC) : A brief history of 1-Alkyl-2-(arylazo)imidazoles 49
Chittaranjan Sinha
07. Preliminary understanding of experiments on single crystal X-ray crystallography 63
Yogesh Dhasmana, Deepak Chopra
08. A path of Quantum Mechanics from classical mechanics: An elegant way of 71
introducing Quantum Mechanics
Dulal C. Mukherjee