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Brown's Chemistry Clinic
Salters AS Chemistry HO35
OCR Advanced Subsidiary GCE
Chemistry (Salters)
1st draft of my
unofficial support links for the NEW Salters GCE AS Advanced Subsidiary
Chemistry Course starting September 2008
My unofficial support for this
OCR GCE Salters Chemistry Advanced Subsidiary AS Chemistry syllabus-specification
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module, topic or unit is linked to potentially
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Summary of OCR GCE Salters Advanced
Level Subsidiary Chemistry AS Units and Contents Links
for the NEW Salters
GCE AS Advanced Subsidiary Level Chemistry Course starting September
2008
Unit F331 Chemistry of Life:
EL Elements of Life * DF
Developing Fuels
Unit F332 Chemistry of Natural Resources:
ES Elements from the Sea * A The
Atmosphere * PR Polymer Revolution
Unit F333
Chemistry in Practice
Some
Open Book strategy advice and ideas

Unit F331
Chemistry of Life
(Salters GCE AS Chemistry)

Teaching Module EL
Elements of Life (Salters GCE AS Chemistry)
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Group 1
The Alkali Metals Notes -
Tabulated element data for lithium,
sodium and potassium etc., physical and chemical properties of the metals,
group trends, reactions with water, oxygen and chlorine, theory of group
reactivity trend, compound formulae, uses of metals and compounds.
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The Reactivity Series of Metals, Corrosion and Redox
Reaction Notes
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Notes on Acids, Bases, Alkalis, pH,
Neutralisation and Salts
- includes theory, lots of formulae and word and balanced symbol
equations, salt preparations and equations.
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GCSE-AS Atomic Structure Notes
including mass spectrometry of elements
- the structure of atoms, isotopes, nuclear structure notation,
'simple' electronic structure and the Periodic Table and mass spectrometry
for isotope analysis and calculation of relative atomic mass (Ar)
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Radioactivity and
Nuclear Power -
The structure of atoms
linked to the properties and uses of alpha, beta and gamma radiation,
radioisotope dating, half-life and explanation of fission/fusion nuclear
reactions etc. Sub-index and
keywords at top of page.
Radioactivity and nuclear processes m/c
Quiz
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Writing and balancing equations, valency and formulae and
Equation
balancing m/c Quiz
-

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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section 1. Relative atomic mass (Ar)
and isotopic mass
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section 2. Relative formula mass and relative molecular mass (Mr)
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section 3. Law of Conservation of Mass and simple reacting mass calculations
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section 4. % composition by mass of a compound
-
 section 5.
Empirical formula from reacting masses
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section 6. Reacting masses of reactants and products and actual percent %
yield,
theoretical yield and atom economy
-
 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
-
GCSE Summary
notes of the Periodic Table
- A basic introduction: Explanation and overview of Groups, Periods, Series etc. with links to
more detailed notes on the Group 1 Alkali Metals, Group 7 Halogens, Group 0
Noble Gases and Transition Metals.
-
Periodic Table Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Notes Part 1 "Historical
Introduction" and the full modern periodic table
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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 and f blocks -
ionization energy patterns, section on hydrogen spectrum and emission
spectroscopy
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Periodic Table Notes Part 11: Compiled
tables of data on Groups 1-7,0 and 3d-block-Transition Metals
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Data-periodicity graphs for
elements Z = 1 to 20 Period 1, Period 2, Period 3 and start of Period 4
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Periodic Table Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Notes Part 7 Group 1 Alkali
Metals and Group 2 Alkaline Earth Metals - detailed revision notes
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Group 1-2 data-group trend graphs
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Multiple choice Quiz on Group 1 Alkali Metals and Group 2 Alkaline Earth Metals (easy
start!)
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Introduction to BONDING
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Revision notes on the basics of Ionic BONDING
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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
Metallic BONDING, properties and uses of metals
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Revision notes on 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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QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS: Chemical
Identity Tests - Gives descriptions of lots of tests for gases, ions
- cations and anions, organic functional groups/homologous series etc.
(keyword alphabetical index at top of page)
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Multiple choice test on EL
(covers many aspects eg Periodic Table ideas, Group 1 and 2 chemistry, some
basic calculations and Short answer test on EL (not
developed, but has got a set of Q's on molecule shapes and bond angles)
Teaching Module DF
Developing Fuels
(Salters GCE AS Chemistry)
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Extra GCSE Organic Chemistry Notes - Alkane & alkene homologous
series 'families', alcohols like ethanol, other organic molecule families
e.g. carboxylic acids, esters, polymers, natural molecules - carbohydrates,
sugars, amino acids, proteins and cooking, natural fats & oils,
hydrogenation of fats, soaps, Vitamin C,
Drugs-analgesics, Food Additives and CFC's, Ozone layer and free radicals.
Use sub-index and keyword list at top of page and can be read as a basic
introductory view of what 'organic chemistry' is all about without the need
for too many concepts!
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GCSE notes on Oil and useful
products -
The hydrocarbons from oil and their uses
e.g. fuels-combustion, simple addition reactions of alkenes and test for
alkenes,
polymers/uses of plastics, fossil fuels and environmental problems etc. See also
Alternative and Fossil Fuel
Survey
and Global
warming discussion
page.
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Revision notes on the
structure & naming (nomenclature) of ALKANES (and
cycloalkanes) notes, including nomenclature of isomers
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Multiple
choice
Quiz on the structure and naming (nomenclature) of alkanes
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Type
in name Quiz on the structure & naming of ALKANES (and
nomenclature of cycloalkanes)
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Revision notes on the structure and naming (nomenclature) of
aliphatic ALCOHOLS - classification into primary (prim), secondary
(sec) and tertiary (tert) - notes include isomers and other related compounds
which may not be needed
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Multiple choice Quiz on
the structure and naming (nomenclature) of aliphatic ALCOHOLS (includes ethers
which may not be needed)
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Type in name Quiz on the nomenclature of aliphatic ALCOHOLS (includes ethers
which may not be needed)
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Quiz on aspects "Development of Fuels"
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Quiz on
aspects of the Petrochemical Industry
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A summary of
homologous series, functional group names and structure in Organic Chemistry
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ISOMERISM in organic molecules -
Revision notes - use index to look up specific types of isomerism e.g.
structural isomerism
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Basic notes of exothermic and endothermic
reactions and calculation of enthalpy changes from 'simple' calorimetry
experiments and resulting data
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GCSE Multiple choice quiz on Energy Changes in Chemical Reactions
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Enthalpy and Bond Energy Calculation
Questions (answers)
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KINETICS - advanced rates of reactions
revision notes: including temperature effect and activation energy, homogeneous catalysts
and heterogeneous
catalysts

Unit F332
Chemistry of Natural Resources
(Salters GCE AS Chemistry)

Teaching Module ES Elements from
the Sea
(Salters GCE AS Chemistry)
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Group 7 The Halogens - GCSE Notes
- data, physical properties and chemistry of elements chlorine, bromine,
iodine and their compounds, electrolysis of aqueous sodium chloride/brine
and the uses of the products - chlorine, hydrogen and sodium hydroxide.
Alphabetical keyword-phrase list at top of page.
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Revision notes on Inorganic redox reactions
- Part 1 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 analysis of the reaction of chlorine with sodium hydroxide (Redox Part
2, Example 5.14) and other examples involving halogen reactions: 5.2, 5.12,
6.2, 6.6,6.10, 6.11and 6.12 (there is an index for the redox reactions
described.
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Revision notes on the structure and naming of HALOGENOALKANES
(haloalkanes notes parts 1-3), including nomenclature of many isomers
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Multiple choice Quiz on the structure and naming
(nomenclature) of
HALOGENOALKANES (haloalkanes)
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Type in name Quiz on the
nomenclature of HALOGENOALKANES (haloalkanes)
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section 2. Relative formula mass and relative molecular mass (Mr)
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section 3. Law of Conservation of Mass and simple reacting mass calculations
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section 4. % composition by mass of a compound
-
 section 5.
Empirical formula from reacting masses
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section 6. Reacting masses of reactants and products and actual percent %
yield,
theoretical yield and atom economy
-
 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
-
 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 the basics of Ionic BONDING
and an ionic lattice
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Equilibria Part 8 Phase equilibria-vapour
pressure, organic molecule examples - bond polarity, boiling point and intermolecular forces
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GCSE Summary
notes of the Periodic Table
- A basic introduction: Explanation and overview of Groups, Periods, Series etc. with links to
more detailed notes on the Group 1 Alkali Metals, Group 7 Halogens, Group 0
Noble Gases and Transition Metals.
-
Periodic Table Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Notes Part 1 "Historical
Introduction" and the full modern periodic table
-
Periodic Table Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Notes Part
2 "Electronic Structure and Ionisation Energies"
- Electron arrangements -
electron configurations and the Periodic Table - s, p, d and f blocks -
ionization energy patterns, section on hydrogen spectrum and emission
spectroscopy
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Writing and balancing equations, valency and formulae
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Summary
notes of Inorganic Chemical tests for anions, including tests for halides -
silver halide salts formation (use
keyword alphabetical index
at top of page)
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MECHANISM
Introduction
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)
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Mechanism: Halogenoalkanes
(haloalkanes/alkyl halides)
Nucleophilic substitution by water/hydroxide ion
[SN1 or SN2, hydrolysis to alcohol]
(introduction to, and example of, nucleophilic substitution in
halogenoalkanes)
(general equations and reaction conditions quoted too) and
extra notes on
kinetics, rds, molecularity, activated complex etc.
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Mechanism:
Halogenoalkanes
(haloalkanes, alkyl halides)
Nucleophilic
substitution by cyanide ion
to make a nitrile
(general equations and reaction conditions quoted too)
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Mechanism: Halogenoalkanes
(haloalkanes, alkyl halides) Nucleophilic
substitution by ammonia or primary amine
to make amines
(general equations and reaction conditions quoted too)
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Mechanism: Alcohols
- conversion to halogenoalkane
(mechanism NOT needed but general equations and reaction conditions quoted
too)

Teaching Module A The
Atmosphere
(Salters GCE AS Chemistry)
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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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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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Starter GCSE
Notes on reversible reactions, equilibrium, ammonia synthesis
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Advanced
Chemistry Equilibria Part 1.
Dynamic molecular equilibrium and Le Chatelier's principle
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Equilibria Part 3
equilibrium and industrial processes
(can ignore the Kp/Kc equilibrium expressions and concentrate on the
application of Le Chatelier's Principle)
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Extra GCSE Organic Chemistry Notes -
section 7. on CFC's, Ozone layer and free radicals
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MECHANISM
Introduction
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)
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Mechanism
of the free radical
chlorination/bromination of alkanes to make halogenoalkanes

Teaching Module PR
Polymer Revolution
(Salters GCE AS Chemistry)
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Equilibria Part 8 Phase equilibria-vapour
pressure, organic molecule examples - bond polarity, boiling point and intermolecular forces
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A summary of
homologous series, functional group names and structure in Organic Chemistry
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Revision notes on the structure & naming (nomenclature) of ALKENES (and
cycloalkanes) notes, including nomenclature of isomers
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Multiple choice Quiz on the Structure and naming
(nomenclature) of ALKENES
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Type in name Quiz on the
nomenclature of ALKENES
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Revision notes on the structure and naming (nomenclature) of
aliphatic ALCOHOLS - classification into primary (prim), secondary
(sec) and tertiary (tert) - notes include isomers and other related compounds
which may not be needed
-
MECHANISM
Introduction
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)
-
GCSE notes on Oil and useful
products -
simple addition reactions of alkenes and
test for alkenes, polymers/uses of plastics and environmental problems
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Mechanism
of electrophilic addition of
hydrogen bromide to alkenes
to make bromoalkanes (introduction and example of
electrophilic addition to alkenes) (exemplar balanced equations
show product formation)
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Mechanism
of electrophilic addition of bromine
to alkenes
with pure
bromine to make dibromoalkanes (exemplar balanced equations
show product formation)
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Mechanism
of electrophilic addition of bromine
to alkenes using bromine
water to make bromo-alcohols (exemplar balanced equations
show product formation)
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Organic
Chemistry (2a) Geometrical Isomerism (use sub-index at top of
page)

Unit F333
Chemistry in Practice
(Salters GCE AS Chemistry)
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