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- The atom, ions and isotopes
- Electron configuration sub shells and orbitals
- Energy level diagrams and electron orbitals
- Calculating relative atomic mass from mass Spectra
- Calculating the abundance of isotopes using mass spectra
- Periodicity - melting and boiling point
- Periodicity - trends
- Periodicity - successive ionisation energy
1. Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table
- Ionic bonding
- Covalent and dative covalent bonding
- Shapes of molecules 1 - no lone pairs
- Shapes of molecules 2 - with lone pairs
- Shapes of molecules 3 - molecular ions
- Metallic bonding
- Giant covalent structures
- Chemical structures summary
- Electronegativity
- 3 Types of Bonding
- Intermolecular Forces
2. Bonding and Structure
- Oxidation states
- Reduction and oxidation
- Using oxidation states - balancing half equations
3. Redox I
- Group 2 elements and their physical properties
- Group 2 elements - chemical properties and products
- S block compound stability
- Properties of group 7 - the halogens
- Halogen displacement reactions
- Halogen disproportionation reactions
- Test for halide ions (using silver nitrate)
- Test for halide ions (reactions with sulfuric acid)
4. Inorganic Chemistry and the Periodic Table
- Calculations using the ideal gas equation
- Titration calculation 1
- Atom economy
- Calculating the volume of a gas using moles
- Titration calculation 2 - calculating volume
- Calculating water of crystallisation
- Converting units (volume)
- Ideal gas equation and rearranging it
- The mole
- Calculating empirical formula
5. Formulae, Equations and Amounts of Substance
- Functional groups
- Nomenclature (branched molecules)
- Nomenclature (molecules with functional groups)
- Types of formula
- Structural isomers
- Stereoisomerism
- Fractional distillation
- Introduction to alkanes
- Industrial cracking
- Combustion of fuels
- Introduction to alkenes
- Electrophilic addition of bromine and hydrogen
- Electrophilic addition of hydrogen halides
- Polymers
- Introduction to haloalkanes
- Nucleophilic substitution reactions with ammonia
- Nucleophilic substitution reactions with cyanide
- Nucleophilic substitution reactions with hydroxide and water
- Elimination reactions of haloalkanes
- Free radical substitution reactions
- Introduction to alcohols
- Mass spectrometer - interpreting spectra
- Infra red spectroscopy
- Mass spectrometry - fragmentation
6. Organic chemistry I
7. Modern Analytical Techniques I
- Measuring enthalpy change part 1 (enthalpy of fuels)
- Endothermic and exothermic reactions
- Measuring enthalpy change part 2 - neutralisation
- Measuring enthalpy change part 2 - displacement reactions
- Measuring enthalpy change part 4 - enthalpy graphs
- Hess's law and cycles
- Bond enthalpy
8. Energetics I
- Collision theory
- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution curves
- Catalysis