Chemistry

Course summary

Chemistry is for thinkers, dreamers and doers! Students who like to think and solve problems will love the challenge of this course. Those who dream of making new discoveries or of changing the world by solving the energy crisis or synthesising a new drug to treat cancer will love the scope of this course. Year 12 - Physical Chemistry Atomic structure, Amount of substance, Bonding, Energetics, Kinetics, Chemical equilibria and Le Chatelier's principle, Oxidation, reduction and redox equations. Year 12 - Inorganic Chemistry Periodicity, Group 2, the alkaline earth metals, Group 7(17), the halogens. Year 12 - Organic Chemistry Introduction to organic chemistry, Alkanes, Halogenoalkanes, Alkenes, Alcohols, Organic analysis. The full A level examines all the above and in Year 13 we study: Physical Chemistry Thermodynamics, Rate equations, Equilibrium constant Kc for homogeneous systems, Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells, Acids and bases. Inorganic chemistry Properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides, Transition metals, Reactions of ions in aqueous solution. Organic chemistry 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.