A Level Chemistry
Dates Available
- Week 1: 31 March – 4 April
- Week 2: 7 April – 11 April
- Week 3: 14 April – 18 April
Boards
AQA 7405
Length of Course
40 hours
Times
9am to 6pm daily
The course examines key topic areas and extensive use will be made of exam based A level questions to illustrate relevant principles. Revision notes and model answers will be provided, where appropriate.
Topics covered:
Physical Chemistry
- Atomic structure
- Amount of substance
- Bonding
- Energetics
- Kinetics
- Chemical equilibria, Le Chatelier’s principle and Kc
- Oxidation, reduction and redox equations
- Thermodynamics (A level only)
- Rate equations (A level only)
- Equilibrium constant Kp for homogeneous systems (A level only)
- Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells (A level only)
- Acids and bases (A level only)
Inorganic Chemistry
- Periodicity
- Group 2, the alkaline earth metals
- Group 7(17), the halogens
- Properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides (A level only)
- Transition metals (A level only)
- Reactions of ions in aqueous solution (A level only)
Organic Chemistry
- Introduction to organic chemistry
- Alkanes
- Halogenoalkanes
- Alkenes
- Alcohols
- Organic analysis
- Optical isomerism (A level only)
- Aldehydes and ketones (A level only)
- Carboxylic acids and derivatives (A level only)
- Aromatic chemistry (A level only)
- Amines (A level only)
- Polymers (A level only)
- Amino acids, proteins and DNA (A level only)
- Organic synthesis (A level only)
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (A level only)
- Chromatography (A level only)
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