A level Chemistry OCR/A

A level Chemistry OCR/A

Dates Available

• Week 1: Monday 27 March – Friday 31 March
• Week 2: Monday 3 April – Friday 7 April (including Good Friday)
• Week 3: Monday 10 April – Friday 14 April (including Easter Monday)

Boards

OCR/A H432

Length of Course

5 full-day sessions

This course is board-specific for the OCR/A specification (H432). This course is for A level Year 13 students only. This course is not suitable for Year 12 students.

Links between topics will be stressed throughout and exam techniques will include how best to approach key mathematical skills questions.

• Atoms, compounds, molecules and equations
• Amount of substance
• Acid–base and redox reactions
• Electrons, bonding and structure
• The periodic table and periodicity
• Group 2 and the halogens
• Qualitative analysis
• Enthalpy changes
• Reaction rates and equilibrium (qualitative)
• Basic concepts
• Hydrocarbons
• Alcohols and haloalkanes
• Organic synthesis
• Analytical techniques (IR and MS)
• Reaction rates and equilibrium (quantitative)
• pH and buffers
• Enthalpy, entropy and free energy
• Redox and electrode potentials
• Transition elements
• Aromatic compounds
• Carbonyl compounds
• Carboxylic acids and esters
• Nitrogen compounds
• Polymers
• Organic synthesis
• Chromatography and spectroscopy (NMR)