SPECIFICATION

MODULE 1: development of practical skills in chemistry

• practical skills assessed in a written examination

• practical skills assessed in the practical endorsement

MODULE 2: foundations in chemistry

• atoms, compounds, molecules and equations

• amount of substance

• acid-base and redox reactions

• electrons, bonding and structure

MODULE 3: periodic table and energy

• the periodic table and periodicity

• group 2 and the halogens

• qualitative analysis

• enthalpy changes

• reaction rates and equilibrium (qualitative)

MODULE 4: core organic chemistry

• basic concepts

• hydrocarbons

• alcohols and haloalkanes

• organic synthesis

• analytical techniques (IR and MS)

MODULE 5: physical chemistry and transition elements

• reaction rates and equilibrium (quantitative)

• pH and buffers

• enthalpy, entropy and free energy

• redox and electrode potentials

• transition elements

MODULE 6: organic chemistry and analysis

• aromatic compounds

• carbonyl compounds

• carboxylic acids and esters

• nitrogen compounds

• polymers

• organic synthesis

• chromatography and spectroscopy (NMR)