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AS level Chemistry OCR/B/Salters

AS level Chemistry OCR/B/Salters

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/B H433 Salters

Length of Course

5 half-day sessions

This course is board-specific for the OCR/B/Salters specification (H033).

This course is for Year 12 students only.

  • 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, – 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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