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Group Lessons

  • Currently taking expressions of interest for New Group Lessons Beginning September '24

  • Online tuition

  • Year 12 and 13 A-level chemistry

  • Year 10 and 11 combined or triple science

  • Resits or new students welcome

  • Contact me to arrange

Example topic list for year 13 chemistry

  • Atomic structure: Electronic structure, ionisation energy and mass spectrometry of elements.

  • Amount of substance: reacting masses, percentage yield, atom economy

  • Amount of substance: titration technique and calculations.

  • Amount of substance: empirical formulae, water of crystallisation, the ideal gas equation.

  • Bonding: types of bonding and properties

  • Bonding: Shapes of molecules

  • Bonding: Polarity and intermolecular forces

  • Energetics: calorimetry calculations and experimental techniques.

  • Energetics: Hess’s law

  • Equilibrium:  Applying Le Chatelier’s rule.

  • Equilibrium: calculations

  • Redox: assigning oxidation numbers and writing half equations, disproportionation reactions.

  • Organic chemistry:  naming, formulae types, functional groups, reactions of alcohols.

  • Organic chemistry: isomerism.

  • Organic chemistry: free radical mechanisms, electrophilic addition.

  • Organic analysis: Mass spectrometry and Infrared spectroscopy.

  • Thermodynamics: definitions and Born Haber cycles

  • Thermodynamics: Lattice enthalpy, experimental versus calculated, enthalpy of solution.

  • Thermodynamics: entropy and free energy

  • Equilibrium:  Kp

  • Kinetics: reaction rates and graphs, clock reactions

  • Kinetics: the Arrhenius equation

  • Kinetics: linking reaction mechanisms to kinetic data

  • Electrochemistry:  basic rules and principles

  • Acids and bases: general calculations

  • Acids and bases:  buffers and titration curves

  • Transition metals: the basics

  • Organic: electrophilic substitution

  • Organic analysis: nmr

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