Chemistry

Course summary

First year of A-Level 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, 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, equilibrium constant (Kc) for homogeneous systems, electrode potentials, and electrochemical cells. Inorganic Chemistry: Including properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides, transition metals, 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.