Chemistry A level OCR/B/Salters for Year 12

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.