Chemistry

Course summary

A-level Chemistry attempts to answer the big question ‘What is the world made of’ and it’s the search for this answer that makes this subject so fascinating. From investigating how one substance can be changed drastically into another, to researching a new wonder drug to save millions of lives, the opportunities that chemistry provides are endless. First-year - Physical chemistry Includes; atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, energetics, kinetics, chemical equilibria and Le Chatelier’s principle. - Inorganic chemistry Includes; periodicity, Group 2 the alkaline earth metals, and Group 7 the halogens. - Organic chemistry Includes; an introduction to organic chemistry, alkanes, halogenoalkanes, alkenes, alcohols, and organic analysis. Second-year - Physical chemistry Including; thermodynamics, rate equations, the equilibrium constant Kp, electrode potentials and electrochemical cells. - Inorganic chemistry Includes; 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, chromatography.