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Physical Chemistry:
Chemical kinetics: Ch., 14
- Reaction rates, effects of concentration, rate law determination, order of reaction, rate constant
- Experimental determination of rate laws using differential and integrated rate equations
- Reaction orders and nomenclature
- Theories of kinetics
- Arrhenius equation
- Catalysis
- Relationship between reaction rates and equilibrium
- Kinetics and the determination of reaction mechanisms
Thermodynamics: Ch., 7 & 19
- Introduction into the nature, scope, and terminology of thermodynamics
- First Law of Thermodynamics – heat and work
- Enthalpies or heats of formation
- Bond energies
- Entropy and the Second Law
- Third Law of Thermodynamics
- Free energy: spontaneity, equilibrium
- Relationship between ∆H, ∆S, and ∆G, and the effect of temperature
Gaseous equilibrium: Ch., 15
- Concept of dynamic equilibrium
- Properties of the equilibrium constant, K, and the reaction quotient, Q.
- Extent of reactions at equilibrium; the degree of dissociation
- Variation of the equilibrium constant with temperature, van’t Hoff equation
- Le Chatelier’s principle
Ionic equilibrium in aqueous solutions: Ch. 16-18
- Properties of acids, bases and salts in aqueous solution
- Theories of acids and bases: Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, Lewis
- Strong and weak electrolytes; degree of dissociation Ka, Kb, Kw
- The pH scale: pH, pOH, pKa, pKb
- Salts in aqueous solution: hydrolysis; pH of salt solutions
- Acid-base titrations: the function and selection of indicators
- The common ion effect
- Buffer solutions; composition and properties
- Factors that affect solubility and the rate of dissolution
- Solubility product, Ksp
Organic Chemistry:
- Introduction to organic molecules
- Hybridization of orbitals in carbon compounds
- Functional groups
- Structures and IUPAC nomenclature of simple organic compounds, e.g. alkenes, alkenes, alkynes, alkanals, alkanones, alcohols, carboxylic acid derivatives, haloalkanes and amines
- Stereoisomerism
- Introduction to aromatic compounds and conjugated rings
- Huckel’s rule
- Molecular orbital theory (MO theory) of bonding as relevant to aromatic compounds
- Organic reactions
- Reaction mechanisms
- Curly arrows
- Lewis acids and bases
- Nucleophilic substitutions
- Electrophilic substitutions and additions
- Polymer structures and polymerization reactions
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