Chemistry

Course summary

YEAR 1 Organic Chemistry - ‘Introduction to organic chemistry, alkanes and halogenoalkanes, alkenes, alcohols, organic analysis. Physical Chemistry - Atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, energetics, kinetics, chemical equilibria & Le Chatelier’s principle and oxidation, reduction and redox Inorganic Chemistry - Periodicity, Group 2- the alkaline earth metals and Group 7 (17), the halogens YEAR 2 Organic Chemistry - Optical isomerism, aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids and esters, aromatic chemistry, amines, polymers, amino acids, proteins and DNA, organic synthesis, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and chromatography. Physical Chemistry - Thermodynamics, rate equations, equilibrium constant Kc, electrode potentials & electrochemical cells and acids & bases Inorganic Chemistry - Properties of period 3 elements and their oxides, transition metals and reactions of ions in aqueous solutions.