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A Level Chemistry AQA

Dates Available

• Week 1: 30 March – 3 April
• Week 2: 6 April – 10 April
• Week 3: 13 April – 17 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)