Chemistry

Course summary

AS Chemistry and first-year Physical chemistry Including atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, energetics, kinetics, chemical equilibria and Le Chatelier’s principle. Inorganic chemistry Including periodicity, Group 2 the alkaline earth metals, and Group 7(17) the halogens. Organic chemistry Including an introduction to organic chemistry, alkanes, halogenoalkanes, alkenes, alcohols, and organic analysis. Second year of A-level Physical chemistry Including thermodynamics, rate equations, the equilibrium constant Kp, electrode potentials and electrochemical cells. Inorganic Chemistry Including properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides, transition metals, and reactions of ions in aqueous solution. Organic Chemistry Including optical isomerism, aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids and derivatives, aromatic chemistry, amines, polymers, amino acids, proteins and DNA, organic synthesis, NMR spectroscopy, and chromatography.