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Salters GCE AS Chemistry H435 OCR A Level GCE
A2 SALTERS Chemistry B
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Summary of SALTERS GCE A
Level A2 Chemistry Units and Contents Links
Module Unit F334 Chemistry of Materials
WM What's
in a Medicine? * MR The Materials Revolution * TL
The Thread of Life * SS The Steel Story
Module Unit F335 Chemistry By Design
AI
Agriculture and Industry * CD Colour by Design * O
The Oceans * MD Medicines by Design
F334
Chemistry of Materials
WM What's in a
Medicine?
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 Extra
GCSE Aqueous Chemistry
Notes
- simple acid-base theory Sub-index at top of page
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Equilibria Part 5 pH, weak-strong
acid-base theory (Lewis and Bronsted-Lowry) and Ka,
kb and Kw
equilibrium calculations
advanced notes
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The shapes
and bond angles of simple molecules (VSEPR), ions
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A summary of
homologous series, functional group names and structure in Organic Chemistry
(look for 'general formulae' and links to organic molecular structure and
nomenclature/naming pages)
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Revision notes on the structure and naming (nomenclature) of
aliphatic ALCOHOLS Part 2 Diols, triols, cycloalcohols
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Revision notes on the
Structure and Naming of Carbonyl Compounds Aldehydes and Ketones
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Revision notes on the
structure and naming of CARBOXYLIC ACIDS and DERIVATIVES
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Qualitative Analysis: Tests for organic
functional groups notes (use alphabetical index for homologous series,
reagents etc.) (alphabetical keyword index at top of page)
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General QUIZ on type of Organic Molecule Recognition based on examples of
structure and recognition of functional groups, including isomers, so the
quiz is mainly on recognition of types of molecules and their
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Extra GCSE Organic Chemistry Notes
- preparation of an ester
(described in section 4a)
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Extra GCSE Organic Chemistry Notes
- reactions of carboxylic acids with bases and carbonates
(exemplified by ethanoic acid in section 4a)
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Organic synthesis
redox reactions - including oxidation of alcohols to
aldehydes/ketones/carboxylic acids (summary table indexes and links)
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Mechanism: Carbonyl
compounds - aldehydes/ketones nucleophilic addition of
hydrogen cyanide to give a hydroxynitrile (includes
reagents, reaction conditions and exemplar balanced equations
showing product formation)
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MECHANISMS
INDEX-TYPES of ORGANIC REACTION and Introduction and terms used in
organic chemistry
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Calculations
section 6. Reacting masses of reactants and products and actual percent %
yield,
theoretical yield and atom economy
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Calculations
section 14. % actual and theoretical yield, dilution calculations, atom
economy, volumetric titration apparatus, water of crystallisation, how much
of reactants are needed?
(sub-index near top of page)
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Extra GCSE Industrial Chemistry Notes
includes section on glc gas-liquid chromatography (section 6.)
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Methods of separating mixtures including paper chromatography and t.l.c. (basic revision notes)
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GCSE Atomic Structure Notes
including mass spectrometry
and measurement of molecular mass
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SIMPLE introductory
NMR problem solving with % composition and infra-red absorption data
MR The
Materials Revolution
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Revision notes on Inorganic redox reactions
- Part 1 includes introduction to electronegativity
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Equilibria Part 8 has a section on intermolecular forces - bond polarity, boiling point
using organic molecules as examples
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Revision notes on the Structure, Classification and Naming of
Organic Nitrogen Compounds
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A summary of
homologous series, functional group names and structure in Organic Chemistry
(look for 'general formulae' and links to organic molecular structure and
nomenclature/naming pages)
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Extra GCSE Organic Chemistry Notes
- An introduction to polymer structure addition and condensation polymers
(basic idea)
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Examples of polyamide structure including NYLONs
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Other
organic stereochemistry including isotactic/atactic/syndiotactic poly(propene)
TL The Thread
of Life
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KINETICS - advanced rates of reactions
revision notes: temperature effect and activation energy, homogeneous catalysts
and heterogeneous
catalysts, obtaining data, rate expressions and orders of reaction,
deducing orders of reaction
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KINETICS - advanced rates of reactions
revision notes:
Selected case studies of kinetics and rate expressions and calculations
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A summary of
homologous series, functional group names and structure in Organic Chemistry
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Some
notes on amino acids-proteins-polypeptides-enzymes
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Extra GCSE Industrial Chemistry Notes
- Enzymes
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Organic
Chemistry (2a) Geometrical Isomerism (E/Z) was called cis/trans) (use sub-index at top of
page)
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Organic
Chemistry (2b) Optical
Isomerism (R/S isomerism) (use sub-index at top of
page)
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Spotting optical isomers Q (hand written!) (answers)
SS The Steel
Story
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Chemical Calculations index - 1. to 16. sections of
explanation-examples and multiple choice and type in answer quizzes links
are built into the notes, designed up to higher
GCSE and basic GCE-AS/IB
calculations
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Calculations
section 6. Reacting masses of reactants and products and actual percent %
yield,
theoretical yield and atom economy
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section
7. Introducing moles - the connection of moles, mass and formula mass
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section 8.
Using
moles to deduce empirical/molecular formula of a compound/molecule starting with
reacting masses or % composition by mass
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section 9. moles and
molar gas volume and Avogadro's Law
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section 10.
Reacting gas volume
ratios, Avogadro's Law and
Gay-Lussac's Law
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section 11. Making up solutions -
concentration & molarity
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section 12. Volumetric acid-alkali titration easy calculations
- apparatus/analysis
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Structured Question worksheet including acid-base volumetric titration
calculations (answers)
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Revision notes on Inorganic redox reactions
- Part 1 includes introduction to electronegativity, explaining oxidation and reduction reactions and oxidation
state/oxidation number changes
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Revision notes on Inorganic redox reactions
- Part 2 analysing and constructing full
redox equations from half-cell reactions
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redox titration
calculation questions (all with worked out answers)
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Experimental question style - redox titration
(ans) based on Q1 of above
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Equilibrium Part 7 Redox equilibria, half-cell electrode potentials,
predicting feasibility of a reaction (use top index)
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 INORGANIC
Part 10 3d block TRANSITION METALS sub-index: 10.1-10.2
Introduction 3d-block Transition Metals * 10.3
Scandium
* 10.4 Titanium * 10.5
Vanadium * 10.6
Chromium
* 10.7 Manganese * 10.8
Iron * 10.9
Cobalt
* 10.10 Nickel
* 10.11 Copper * 10.12
Zinc
* 10.13 Other Transition Metals e.g. Ag and Pt * Appendix 1.
Hydrated salts, acidity of
hexa-aqua ions * Appendix 2. Complexes
& ligands * Appendix 3. Complexes and isomerism * Appendix 4.
Electron configuration & colour theory *
Appendix 5. Redox
equations, feasibility, Eø * Appendix 6.
Catalysis * Appendix 7.
Redox
equations
* Appendix 8. Stability Constants and entropy
changes *
Appendix 9. Colorimetric analysis
and complex ion formula * Extra Appendix 10
3d block - extended data
* Appendix 11 Some 3d-block compounds, complexes, oxidation states
& electrode potential chart * Appendix 12
Hydroxide complex precipitate 'pictures',
formulae and equations
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Equilibrium Part 7 Redox equilibria, half-cell electrode potentials,
predicting feasibility of a reaction
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The Mining of Minerals and the Extraction of Metals
- the extraction of aluminium, chromium, copper (and electrolysis purification), iron, sodium, titanium and
zinc, method details and equations, and method related to reactivity of
metal and environmental and economic issues.
(use the keyword alphabetical index near top of the page)
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How to understand and write chemical equations
including ionic equations and work out molecular and ionic formulae from
valencies or ion charges (some basic revision notes)
F335
Chemistry By Design
AI Agriculture
and Industry
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Chemical Calculations index - 1. to 16. sections of
explanation-examples and multiple choice and type in answer quizzes links
are built into the notes, designed up to higher
GCSE and basic GCE-AS/IB
calculations
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Periodic Table Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Notes Part
2 "Electronic Structure and Ionisation Energies"
- Electron arrangements -
electron configurations and the Periodic Table - s, p, d blocks
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Revision notes on the basics of Ionic BONDING
and an ionic lattice
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Revision notes on the basics of
Covalent BONDING and small molecules and their properties
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Revision notes on the basics of Covalent BONDING and giant structures and
their properties and uses
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Revision notes on the basics of
Metallic BONDING, properties and uses of metals
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The shapes
and bond angles of simple molecules (VSEPR), ions, transition metal complexes and a section on
shape and bond angles in
organic molecules
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GCSE
Notes for the basics of rates of reactions - kinetics
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KINETICS - advanced rates of reactions
revision notes: temperature effect and activation energy, homogeneous catalysts
and heterogeneous
catalysts
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Equilibria Part 1.
Dynamic molecular equilibrium and Le Chatelier's principle
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Equilibria
Part 2 Kc and Kp equilibrium expressions and
calculations
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Equilibria Part 3
equilibrium and industrial processes
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Inorganic redox reactions
- Part 1 includes introduction to electronegativity, explaining oxidation and reduction reactions and oxidation
state/oxidation number changes
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Inorganic redox reactions
- Part 2 analysing and constructing full
redox equations from half-cell reactions
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Calculations
section 6. Reacting masses of reactants and products and actual percent %
yield,
theoretical yield and atom economy
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Calculations
section 14. % actual and theoretical yield
(sub-index near top of page)
CD Colour by
Design
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Inorganic redox reactions - Part 1 includes introduction to
electronegativity
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Notes on the Structure and Naming of Aromatic Compounds
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Type in name Quiz on the nomenclature of Aromatic Compounds
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Ex. 1. Matching pair Quiz on
hydrocarbon structure
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Enthalpies of hydrogenation as evidence for benzene ring structure in
section 1.4d
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MECHANISMS AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
- introduction to arene electrophilic substitution mechanisms links to various reactions
including equation and reaction conditions Full
mechanisms NOT needed but the mechanistic principles reasons for
electrophilic substitution are required
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Mechanism: Aromatic
hydrocarbons - arene introduction to electrophilic substitution and nitration
to form nitro-aromatic compounds (basic equation, reagents and reaction
conditions given)
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Mechanism: Aromatic
hydrocarbons - arene electrophilic substitution chlorination to give
halogenoarenes
(similar for bromine, just swap Cl with Br)
(basic equation, reagents and reaction conditions given)
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Mechanism: Aromatic
hydrocarbons - arene electrophilic substitution alkylation
[Friedel-Crafts reaction]
(basic equation, reagents and reaction conditions given)
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Mechanism: Aromatic
hydrocarbons - arene electrophilic substitution acylation
[Friedel-Crafts reaction]
(basic equation, reagents and reaction conditions given)
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Mechanism: Aromatic
hydrocarbons - arene electrophilic substitution aromatic sulphonation/sulfonation
to give sulphonic/sulfonic acids
(basic equation, reagents and reaction conditions given)
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Extra GCSE Industrial Chemistry Notes
includes section on glc gas-liquid chromatography (section 6.)
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Part Appendix 4 on Transition Metals: Theory of Colour in complexes
(Appendix 4.)
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Periodic Table Part
2 "Electronic Structure and Ionisation Energies"
(section 2.6 on emission spectroscopy)
O
The Oceans
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Thermodynamics Part 2 ΔH Enthalpies of
ion hydration, solution, atomisation, lattice energy, electron affinity
and the Born-Haber cycle
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Thermodynamics Part
3 ΔS Entropy and ΔG Free Energy Changes
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Equilibria Part 5 pH, weak-strong
acid-base theory (Lewis and Bronsted-Lowry) and Ka,
kb and Kw
equilibrium calculations
advanced notes
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Equilibria Part 6 Salt hydrolysis,
Acid-base titrations-indicators, pH curves and buffers
MD Medicines by
Design
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A summary of
homologous series, functional group names and structure in Organic Chemistry
(look for 'general formulae' and links to organic molecular structure and
nomenclature/naming pages)
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MECHANISMS
INDEX - Introduction to TYPES of ORGANIC REACTION and terms used in organic chemistry - on the mechanism pages the
type of reaction, basic reaction equations and conditions are quoted which may act as a
suitable reference, there is also a reaction index on each page lots of
links to various reactions
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The shapes
and bond angles of simple molecules - section on bond angles in organic
molecules
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Organic
Chemistry (2)
STEREOISOMERISM general definition (use sub-index at top of
page)
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Organic
Chemistry (2a) Geometrical Isomerism (E/Z) was called cis/trans) (use sub-index at top of
page)
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Organic
Chemistry (2b) Optical
Isomerism (R/S isomerism) (use sub-index at top of
page)
-
SIMPLE introductory
NMR problem solving with % composition and infra-red absorption data
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GCSE Mass spectrometry
- note on measurement of molecular mass
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