Chemistry 7405

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Free Chemistry 7405 revision notes for AQA A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.

Physical chemistry: core (3.1.1-3.1.7)

  • Atomic structure

  • Amount of substance

  • Bonding

  • Energetics

  • Kinetics

  • Chemical equilibria, Le Chatelier's principle and Kc

  • Oxidation, reduction and redox equations

Physical chemistry: A-level only (3.1.8-3.1.12)

  • Thermodynamics

  • Rate equations

  • Equilibrium constant Kp for homogeneous systems

  • Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells

  • Acids and bases

Inorganic chemistry (3.2)

  • Periodicity

  • Group 2, the alkaline earth metals

  • Group 7(17), the halogens

  • Properties of Period 3 elements and their oxides

  • Transition metals

  • Reactions of ions in aqueous solution

Organic chemistry: foundations (3.3.1-3.3.6)

Organic chemistry: A-level only (3.3.7-3.3.12)

Biological molecules, synthesis and spectroscopy (3.3.13-3.3.16)

  • Amino acids, proteins and DNA

  • Organic synthesis

  • Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

  • Chromatography

Practical skills and required practicals 1-6

  • Practical skills assessed in written papers (PS 1.1-4.1, AT a-l)

  • Required practical 1: Make up a volumetric solution and carry out a simple acid-base titration

  • Required practical 2: Measurement of an enthalpy change

  • Required practical 3: Investigation of how the rate of a reaction changes with temperature

  • Required practical 4: Test-tube reactions to identify cations and anions

  • Required practical 5: Distillation of a product from a reaction

  • Required practical 6: Tests for alcohol, aldehyde, alkene and carboxylic acid

Required practical activities 7-12

  • Required practical 7: Measuring the rate of reaction by initial rate and continuous monitoring

  • Required practical 8: Measuring the EMF of an electrochemical cell

  • Required practical 9: pH changes for weak acid with strong base and strong acid with weak base

  • Required practical 10: Preparation of a pure organic solid and a pure organic liquid

  • Required practical 11: Test-tube reactions to identify transition metal ions in aqueous solution

  • Required practical 12: Separation of species by thin-layer chromatography

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