Chemistry

Course summary

At WHGS you will cover the Chemistry AQA Key Stage 5 curriculum by studying the Physical, Inorganic and Organic topics listed below: Physical Chemistry: Atomic structure, Amount of substance, Bonding, Energetics, Kinetics, Chemical equilibria, Le Chatelier’s principle and Kc, Oxidation, reduction and redox equations, Thermodynamics , Equilibrium constant Kp for homogeneous systems, Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells, Acids and bases. Inorganic Chemistry, Periodicity, Group 2, the alkaline, earth metals, Group 7, the halogens, Transition metals, Reactions of ions in aqueous solution Organic Chemistry, Alkanes, Halogenoalkanes, Alkenes, Alcohols, Organic analysis, Optical isomerism, Aromatic chemistry, Carbonyls, Amines, Polymers, Amino acids, proteins and DNA, Organic synthesis, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Chromatography