Chemistry

Course summary

Chemistry is the study of matter, its properties and how it reacts. The course also leads on to the application of chemistry within the modern chemical industry. Students cover a broad range of chemistry topics across the two years including: Physical chemistry—atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, energetics, kinetics, chemical equilibria and Le Chatelier’s principle, electrode potentials and electrochemical cells. Inorganic chemistry - periodicity, Group 2 the alkaline earth metals, Group 7(17) the halogens, Period 3 elements and their oxides, transition metals and reactions of ions in aqueous solution. Organic chemistry—introduction to organic chemistry, organic analysis, optical isomerism, aromatic chemistry, amines, polymers, amino acids, proteins and DNA, organic synthesis, NMR spectroscopy and chromatography.