Group Lessons
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Currently taking expressions of interest for New Group Lessons Beginning September '24
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Online tuition
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Year 12 and 13 A-level chemistry
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Year 10 and 11 combined or triple science
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Resits or new students welcome
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Contact me to arrange
Example topic list for year 13 chemistry
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Atomic structure: Electronic structure, ionisation energy and mass spectrometry of elements.
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Amount of substance: reacting masses, percentage yield, atom economy
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Amount of substance: titration technique and calculations.
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Amount of substance: empirical formulae, water of crystallisation, the ideal gas equation.
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Bonding: types of bonding and properties
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Bonding: Shapes of molecules
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Bonding: Polarity and intermolecular forces
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Energetics: calorimetry calculations and experimental techniques.
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Energetics: Hess’s law
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Equilibrium: Applying Le Chatelier’s rule.
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Equilibrium: calculations
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Redox: assigning oxidation numbers and writing half equations, disproportionation reactions.
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Organic chemistry: naming, formulae types, functional groups, reactions of alcohols.
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Organic chemistry: isomerism.
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Organic chemistry: free radical mechanisms, electrophilic addition.
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Organic analysis: Mass spectrometry and Infrared spectroscopy.
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Thermodynamics: definitions and Born Haber cycles
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Thermodynamics: Lattice enthalpy, experimental versus calculated, enthalpy of solution.
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Thermodynamics: entropy and free energy
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Equilibrium: Kp
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Kinetics: reaction rates and graphs, clock reactions
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Kinetics: the Arrhenius equation
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Kinetics: linking reaction mechanisms to kinetic data
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Electrochemistry: basic rules and principles
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Acids and bases: general calculations
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Acids and bases: buffers and titration curves
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Transition metals: the basics
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Organic: electrophilic substitution
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Organic analysis: nmr