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 for ions.

Required practical 5 – Distillation of a product from a reaction.

Required practical 6 – Tests for alcohol, aldehyde, alkene and carboxylic acid.

Required practical 7 – Measure the rate of a reaction by an initial rate method, and a continuous monitoring method.

Required practical 8 – Measuring the EMF of an electrochemical cell.

Required practical 9 – Investigate how pH changes when a weak acid reacts with a strong base and when a strong acid reacts with a weak base.

Required practical 10 – Preparation of a pure organic solid and test of its purity and a pure organic liquid.

Required practical 11 – Carry out simple test-tube reactions to identify transition metal ions in aqueous solution.

Required practical 12 – Separation of species by thin-layer chromatography.

Structure of an atom

Isotopes

Time of flight mass spectrometer

Electronic configuration

Relative molecular mass

Moles and the Avogadro constant

Ideal gas equation

Empirical and molecular formula

Balanced equations

Ionic equations

Salt equations

Percentage yields

Atom economy

Volume of gases

Concentrations and volumes of solutions

Water of crystallization

Ionic bonding

Covalent and dative covalent bonds

Metallic bonding

Bonding and properties

Shapes of molecules

Bond polarity

Van der Waals’ forces

Permanent Dipole-Dipole Interactions

Hydrogen bonds

Enthalpy change

Calorimetry

Hess’ Law

Bond enthalpy

Collision Theory

Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution

Effect of temperature on reaction rate

Effect of pressure and concentration on reaction rate

Effect of catalysts on reaction rate

Le Chatelier’s principle and dynamic equilibrium

Kc

Oxidation states

Redox reactions

s, p, d or f block elements

Period 2 and 3

Group 2, the alkaline earth metals

Group 7 (17) the halogens

Chlorine and chlorate

Introduction to organic chemistry

Types of formula

Reaction mechanisms

Skeletal formula

Stereoisomerism

Structural isomerism

E/Z isomerism

Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules

Naming alkanes

Fractional distillation of crude oil

Cracking

Combustion of alkanes

Halogenoalkanes

Halogenation of alkanes

Nucleophilic substitution

Elimination reactions

Depletion of ozone

Bonding and reactivity

Addition reactions of alkenes

Addition polymers

Alcohols

Production of alcohols

Oxidation of alcohols

Reactions with alcohols

Infrared spectroscopy

Mass spectrometry

Born-Haber Cycles

Entropy change ΔS

Gibbs free-energy change ΔG

Orders of reactions and rate equations

The Arrhenius equation

Determination of rate equation

Equilibrium constant Kp for homogeneous systems