A Level Chemistry | Video Course | Notes | Worksheets

Wishlist Share
Share Course
Page Link
Share On Social Media

What Will You Learn?

  • Good teaching and learning will incorporate and reinforce a subject’s key concepts to help students gain:
  • A greater depth as well as breadth of subject knowledge
  • Confidence, especially in applying knowledge and skills in new situations
  • The vocabulary to discuss their subject conceptually and show how different aspects link together
  • A level of mastery of their subject to help them enter higher education.

Course Content

Chemical energetics
Learning outcomes Candidates should be able to: 1 define and use the terms: (a) enthalpy change of atomisation, ΔHat (b)lattice energy, ΔHlatt (the change from gas phase ions to solid lattice) 2 (a)define and use the term first electron affinity, EA (b)explain the factors affecting the electron affinities of elements (c)describe and explain the trends in the electron affinities of the Group 16 and Group 17 elements 3. construct and use Born–Haber cycles for ionic solids (limited to +1 and +2 cations, –1 and –2 anions) 4. carry out calculations involving Born–Haber cycles 5. explain, in qualitative terms, the effect of ionic charge and of ionic radius on the numerical magnitude of a lattice energy

Entropy change, ΔS

Gibbs free energy change, ΔG

Electrolysis

Standard electrode potentials E⦵; standard cell potentials E⦵cell and the Nernst equation

Acids and bases

Simple rate equations, orders of reaction and rate constants

Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts

Similarities and trends in the properties of the Group 2 metals, magnesium to barium, and their compounds

General physical and chemical properties of the first row of transition elements, titanium to copper

Colour of complexes

Stereoisomerism in transition element complexes

Formulae, functional groups and the naming of organic compounds

Characteristic organic reactions

Shapes of aromatic organic molecules; σ and π bonds

Isomerism: optical

Halogen compounds

Alcohols

Carboxylic acids and derivatives

Esters

Acyl chlorides

Phenylamine and azo compounds

Condensation polymerization

Thin-layer chromatography

Gas / liquid chromatography

Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy

Proton (1H) NMR spectroscopy

A2 Chemistry Past Paper Session

Equilibria

Student Ratings & Reviews

No Review Yet
No Review Yet

Want to receive push notifications for all major on-site activities?

✕