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Inorganic Chemistry - Periodicity

· s, p, d or f block elements | Video | Quiz |

· Period 3 | Video | Quiz |

Inorganic Chemistry - Group 2, the alkaline earth metals

· Group 2, the alkaline earth metals | Video | Quiz |

Inorganic Chemistry - Group 7 (17) the halogens

· Group 7 (17) the halogens | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Required Practical - identifying ions. Test for Halide Ions | Video |

· Chlorine and chlorate | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Introduction to organic chemistry

· Introduction to organic chemistry | Quiz |

· Types of formula | Video | Quiz |

· Reaction Mechanisms | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Skeletal formula | Video | Quiz |

· Stereoisomerism | Video | Quiz |

· E–Z isomerism | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules | Video | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Alkanes

· Naming alkanes | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Fractional distillation of crude oil | Video | Quiz |

· Cracking | Quiz |

· Combustion of alkanes | Video | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Halogenoalkanes

· Halogenoalkanes | Quiz |

· Halogenation of alkanes | Quiz |

· Nucleophilic substitution | Video | Quiz |

· Elimination reactions | Quiz |

· Depletion of ozone | Video | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Alkenes

· Bonding and reactivity | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Addition reactions of alkenes | Video | Quiz |

· Addition polymers | Video | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Alcohols

· Alcohols | Video | Quiz |

· Production of alcohol | Quiz |

· Oxidation of alcohols | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Reactions with alcohols | Quiz |

· Required practical 5 - Distillation of a product from a reaction | Video | Quiz |

Organic chemistry -Organic analysis

· Required practical 6 - Tests for alcohol, aldehyde, alkene and carboxylic acid | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Mass spectrometry | Quiz |

· Infrared spectroscopy | Quiz |

Physical chemistry - Thermodynamics

· Born-Haber Cycles | Quiz |

· Entropy change, ΔS | Quiz |

· Gibbs free-energy change, ΔG | Video | Quiz |

Physical chemistry - Rate equations

· Order of reactions and rate equations | Video | Quiz |

· The Arrhenius equation | Quiz |

· Determination of rate equation | Quiz |

· Required practical 7 - Measure the rate of a reaction by an initial rate method, and a continuous monitoring method | Quiz |

Physical chemistry - Equilibrium constant Kp for homogeneous systems

· Equilibrium constant Kp for homogeneous systems | Quiz |

Physical chemistry - Electrode potential and electrochemical cells

· Electrode potentials and cells | Quiz |

· Required practical 8 - Measuring the EMF of an electrochemical cell | Video | Quiz |

· Electrochemical cells | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

Physical chemistry - Acids and bases

· Brønsted–Lowry acid-base equilibria | Video | Quiz |

· Calculate the pH of strong acids | Quiz |

· Kw to calculate the pH of strong bases | Quiz |

· Calculate the pH of weak acids | Quiz |

· pH curves | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Required practical 9 - Investigate how pH changes when a weak acid reacts with a strong base and when a strong acid reacts with a weak base | Video | Quiz |

· Calculate the pH of buffer solutions | Quiz |

Inorganic chemistry - Properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides

· Properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides | Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3 | Quiz |

Inorganic chemistry - Transition metals

· Transition metals | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Complex ions | Video | Quiz |

· Ligand exchange | Quiz |

· Shapes of complex ions | Quiz |

· Coloured complex ions | Video | Quiz |

· Variable oxidation states of transition metals | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Heterogeneous catalysts and homogeneous catalysts | Quiz |

Inorganic chemistry - Reactions of ions in aqueous solution

· Metal-aqua ions | Quiz |

· Required practical 11 - Carry out simple test-tube reactions to identify transition metal ions in aqueous solution | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Optical isomerism

· Optical isomerism | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Aldehydes | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Ketones | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Carboxylic acids and derivatives

· Carboxylic acids | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Carbonyl Compounds | Quiz |

· Esters | Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3 | Quiz |

· Animals fats and vegetable oils | Quiz |

· Acid anhydrides | Quiz |

· Acyl chlorides | Quiz |

· Amides | Quiz |

· Required practical 10 - Preparation of a pure organic solid and test of its purity and a pure organic liquid | Video | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Aromatic chemistry

· Benzene | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Nitration reactions| Quiz |

· Friedel-Crafts acylation reactions | Quiz |

Organic chemistry – Amines

· Aliphatic amines | Video | Quiz |

· Aromatic amines | Quiz |

· Amines as bases | Quiz |

· Reactions of amines | Video | Quiz |

· Organic chemistry - Polymers

· Condensation polymerization | Video | Quiz |

· Biodegradable polymers | Quiz |

· Disposal of polymers | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Amino acids, proteins and DNA

· Amino acids | Video | Quiz |

· Structure of proteins | Video | Quiz |

· TLC (This Layer Chromatography) | Video 1 | Video 2 | Video 3 | Quiz |

· Enzymes | Video | Quiz |

· Drug action | Quiz |

· Structure of DNA | Video | Quiz |

· Cisplatin | Video | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Organic synthesis

· Organic synthesis pathways | Video | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

· H NMR  | Video | Quiz |

· C NMR  | Video | Quiz |

Organic chemistry - Chromatography

· Chromatography | Video 1 | Video 2 | Quiz |

· Required practical 12 - Separation of species by thin-layer chromatography  | Video | Quiz |

Paper 1 is Inorganic and Physical Chemistry

Paper 2 is Organic and Physical Chemistry

Paper 1 and paper 2 are both a total of 80 marks, each makes up 50% of the AS grade. There are 65 marks of short and long answer questions and 15 marks of multiple choice questions

Paper 1 is Inorganic and Physical Chemistry

Paper 2 is Organic and Physical Chemistry

Paper 3 is any content

Paper 1 and paper 2 are both a total of 105 marks, each paper makes up 35% of the A-level grade. There will be 105 marks from short and long answer questions

Paper 3 is worth 90 marks making up 30% of the A-level. There will be 40 marks of questions on practical techniques and data analysis, 20 marks of questions testing across the specification followed by 30 marks of multiple choice questions