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Chemistry B (Salters) - H433
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Free Chemistry B (Salters) - H433 study notes for Cambridge OCR A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Elements of life (EL)
Developing fuels (DF)
Sustainability
Practical skills and chemical literacy
Planning and experimental design
Apparatus, techniques and implementing
Analysis, graphs and significant figures
Evaluation, errors and uncertainties
Qualitative tests and purification techniques
Chemical literacy: articles, data and extended answers
Elements from the sea (ES)
Amount of substance and calculations
Formulae, equations and the mole
Concentration and acid–base titrations
Atom economy and percentage yield
Redox and iodine–thiosulfate titrations
Isotopes, relative masses and mass spectrometry
Gas volumes and composition by volume
Atomic structure and the periodic table
Atomic structure and electron configurations
Atomic spectra, ionisation energies and fusion
Periodicity and the periodic table
Group 2 chemistry
The halogens and their compounds
Nitrogen chemistry and industrial processes
Transition metals and complexes
The ozone story (OZ)
Organic reactions
Reaction mechanisms
Bonding, structure and isomerism
Ionic and covalent bonding and shapes of molecules
Intermolecular bonding
Metallic bonding, giant structures and alloys
Delocalisation, benzene and the origins of colour
Structure and properties of hydrocarbons
Structural and E/Z isomerism
Optical isomerism
Structure and bonding in polymers and proteins
What’s in a medicine? (WM)
The chemical industry (CI)
Energetics, entropy and radiation
Enthalpy changes and calorimetry
Enthalpy cycles and bond enthalpies
Lattice enthalpy, hydration and dissolving
Entropy and feasibility
Radiation, the electromagnetic spectrum and molecules
The greenhouse effect and atmospheric sustainability
Colour, light absorption and colorimetry
Rates and kinetics
Rate of reaction, collision theory and Boltzmann distribution
Rate equations, orders and rate constants
Radical reactions and reaction kinetics in the atmosphere
Catalysis, including heterogeneous and enzyme catalysis
Ozone, CFCs and the chemistry of the atmosphere
Polymers and life (PL)
Organic reactions
Oceans (O)
Equilibria, acids, bases and redox
Dynamic equilibrium and opposing change
The equilibrium constant Kc and its calculations
Acids, bases and pH
Weak acids, Ka and buffers
Amino acids and acid–base behaviour of organic compounds
Solubility products
Redox, oxidation numbers and electrolysis
Electrode potentials and electrochemical cells
Organic functional groups and reactions
Alkanes, combustion and fuels
Alkenes and electrophilic addition
Haloalkanes and nucleophilic substitution
Alcohols and phenols
Carboxylic acids, esters and acyl chlorides
Amines, amides and nitrogen-containing compounds
Arenes, electrophilic substitution and diazonium compounds
Carbonyl compounds, fats and oils
Developing metals (DM)
Energy and matter
Colour by design (CD)
Reaction mechanisms
Synthesis, polymers and analytical techniques
Reaction mechanisms and curly arrows
Organic synthesis routes and preparative techniques
Addition polymers
Condensation polymers, proteins and hydrolysis
Mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy
NMR spectroscopy and combined structure determination
Chromatography: TLC and gas–liquid chromatography
Green chemistry and sustainability in industry
Development of practical skills in chemistry
Chemical literacy (CL)
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