Chemistry

Assessment

Year 12 topics: Physical chemistry 1: Atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, energetic, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, Le Chatelier’s principle and Kc. Inorganic chemistry 1: Periodicity, group 2 the alkaline earth metals and group 7(17) the halogens. Organic chemistry 1: Alkanes, haloalkanes, alkenes, alcohols, organic analysis. Year 13 topics: Physical chemistry 2: Thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium constant, electrode potentials, acids, bases and buffers. Inorganic chemistry 2: Periodicity, transition metals, reactions of inorganic compounds in aqueous solutions. Organic chemistry 2: Isomerism, carbonyl groups, aromatic chemistry, amines, polymerisation, amino acids, proteins and DNA, organic synthesis, chromatography.