Chemistry

Course summary

TOPICS IN YEAR 1 - PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Including atomic structure, amount of substance, bonding, energetics, kinetics, chemical equilibria and Le Chatelier’s principle. - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY Including periodicity, group 2: the alkaline earth metals and group 7 (17): the halogens. - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Including introduction to organic chemistry, alkanes, halogenoalkanes, alkenes, alcohols and organic analysis. TOPICS IN YEAR 2 - PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Including thermodynamics, rate equations, the equilibrium constant Kp, electrode potentials and electrochemical cells. - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY Including properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides, transition metals and reactions of ions in aqueous solution. - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Including optical isomerism, aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids and derivatives, aromatic chemistry, amines, polymers, amino acids, proteins and DNA, organic synthesis, NMR spectroscopy and chromatography.