Chemistry

Course summary

Why choose Chemistry? • Chemistry attempts to answer the big question ‘What is the world made of?’ • You will need a strong aptitude in Math. • It will give you the skills to make connections with all living things around you. • You will learn to improve your communication and analytical skills. Studying Chemistry will give you access to a range of exciting careers: - Medicine - Analytical chemist - Chemical engineer - Patent attorney - Toxicologist • Physical chemistry including Atomic structure, Amount of substance Bonding, Energetics, Kinetics, Chemical equilibria, Le Chatelier’s principle, and Kc, Oxidation, reduction, and redox equations, Thermodynamics, Rate equations, Equilibrium constant Kp. for homogeneous systems, Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells, Acids and bases. • Inorganic chemistry including Periodicity, Group 2, the alkaline earth metals, Group 7, the halogens, Properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides, Transition metals, Reactions of ions in aqueous solution. • Organic chemistry including Introduction to organic chemistry, Alkanes, halogenoalkanes, Alkenes, Alcohols, Organic analysis, Optical isomerism, Aldehydes and ketones, Carboxylic acids and derivatives, Aromatic chemistry, Amines, Polymers, Amino acids, proteins and DNA, Organic synthesis, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Chromatography.