Chemistry A level OCR/B/Salters for Year 12
Dates Available
- Week 1: Monday 28 March – Friday 1 April
- Week 2: Monday 4 April – Friday 8 April
- Week 3: Monday 11 April – Friday 15 April
Boards
OCR/B H433 Salters
Length of Course
17.5 hours
Times
9am to 12.30pm and/or 1.30pm to 5pm daily
This course is board-specific for the OCR/B/Salters specification (H433) and is for Year 12 students only.
The course will cover the following:
- Elements of life: atomic structure, atomic spectra and electron configurations; fusion reactions; mass
spectrometry and isotopes; the periodic table and Group 2 chemistry; bonding and the shapes of
molecules; chemical equations and amount of substance (moles); ions: formulae, charge density, tests;
titrations and titration calculations. - Developing fuels: the chemical ideas in this module are: thermochemistry; organic chemistry: names
and combustion of alkanes, alkenes, alcohols; heterogeneous catalysis; reactions of alkenes; addition
polymers; electrophilic addition; gas volume calculations; shapes of organic molecules, σ- and π-bonds;
structural and E/Z isomers; dealing with polluting gases. - Elements from the sea: halogen chemistry; redox chemistry and electrolysis; equilibrium; atom
economy. - The ozone story: composition by volume of gases; the electromagnetic spectrum and the interaction
of radiation with matter; rates of reaction; radical reactions; intermolecular bonding; haloalkanes;
nucleophilic substitution reactions; the sustainability of the ozone layer.
What’s in a medicine?: the chemistry of the –OH group, phenols and alcohols; carboxylic acids and
esters; mass spectrometry and IR spectroscopy; organic synthesis, preparative techniques and thin
layer chromatography; green chemistry.
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