Chemistry

Assessment

AS and first year of A-level 1. Physical chemistry Including atomic structure, amount of sub stance, bonding, energetics, kinetics, chemical equilibria and Le Chatelier’s principle. 2. Inorganic chemistry Including periodicity, Group 2 the alkaline earth metals, Group 7(17) the halogens. 3. Organic chemistry Including introduction to organic chemistry, alkanes, halogenoalkanes, alkenes, alcohols, organic analysis. Second year of A-level 1. Physical chemistry Including thermodynamics, rate equations, the equilibrium constant Kp, electrode potentials and electrochemical cells. 2. Inorganic chemistry Including properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides, transition metals, reactions of ions in aqueous solution. 3. Organic chemistry Including optical isomerism, aldehydes and ke tones, carboxylic acids and derivatives, aromatic chemistry, amines, polymers, amino acids, proteins and DNA, organic synthesis, NMR spectroscopy, chromatography.