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Scottish Advanced Higher Chemistry

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UNIT 1: Electronic structure and the Periodic Table
 
a) Electronic structure

  • Atomic structure

  • Periodicity

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    b) Chemical bonding
  • Ionic structures and bonding

  • Metallic structures and bonding

  • Covalent structures and bonding

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    c) Some chemistry of the Periodic Table
  • Periodicity

  • Period 3 chemistry

  • Transition elements

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    UNIT 2: Principles of chemical reactions
     
    a) Stoichiometry
  • Chemical amounts (A2)

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    b) Chemical equilbrium
  • Equilibrium law

  • Acid-base equilibria

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    c) Thermochemistry
  • Energy changes

  • Energy changes and bonding

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    d) Reaction feasibility
  • Entropy (and free energy)

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    e) Electrochemistry
  • Entropy (and free energy)

  • Redox and redox equilibria

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    f) Kinetics
  • Rates of reaction - kinetics (A2)

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    UNIT 3: Organic Chemistry
     
    a) Permeating aspects of organic chemistry
  • Organic reactions - how do they happen (AS)

  • Organic reaction mechanisms (A2)

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    b) Systematic organic chemistry
  • Alkanes

  • Alkenes

  • Alcohols

  • Aldehydes and ketones

  • Amines, amino acids and proteins

  • Benzene and phenol

  • Organic synthesis

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    c) Stereoisomerism
  • Isomerism

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    d) Structural analysis
  • Spectroscopy

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    e) Medicines

    updated: 11 January 2007

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