Chemistry Timeline Revised for Term One
Week Date
1
25/1
Topic
Headstart Week from 2009;
Topic 6 - Organic Chemical Pathways
Reading
Exercises
Other
Experiment – Making esters
2
1/2
Topic 2: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
Chromatography
Chapters 1,
6
Valency Test
3
8/2
Topic 3: Mole revision - PV=nRT, n=m/Mr, n=cv, n=N/NA, n=V/VM,
excess, STP/SLC; % Composition
NOTE: We are not doing Gravimetric Analysis at this stage.
Chapter 2
Valency Test
Experiment – chromatography of
Texta
4
15/2
Topic 5: Volumetric analysis - Acid / Base reactions.
Topic 4: Spectroscopy - Flame tests, AAS, AES
Chapters 3,
4, 7
Chapters 1, 2, 6 questions due
this week
Valency Test
Experiment – Volumetric Analysis
Experiment – Flame tests
5
22/2
Topic 4: Spectroscopy - UV-Vis, IR
NOTE: We are not doing NMR or MS for the SAC.
Chapter 7
Chapters 3, 4, ( 7 ) questions due.
Make sure you keep up to date
on questions this week. You need
them for next week's SAC.
Experiment - Colorimetric
analysis of iron in breakfast cereal
by AAS
6
1/3
Monday - Revision for SAC.
Tuesday - SAC!!!!!
Wednesday - Topic 4: Spectroscopy - bringing it all together. NMR,
MS
Chapters 7,
8
7
8/3
Topic 5 (finishing off the analytical techniques we missed earlier):
Gravimetric Analysis (chapter 2)
Volumetric Analysis (chapters 4 and 5) - Acid/Base and Redox
revision; pH; Assigning Oxidation numbers; Writing Half equations;
Chapter 2,
4, 5
Chapter 7 and 8 Questions due
this week
8
15/3
Chapter 5: Back Titrations
Chapter 6: Gas Chromatography
Chapter 6
Chapter 5 Questions due
9
22/2
Exam practise week for AOS 1 - Analytical Chemistry
SAC - Excursion to Ecolinc in
Bacchus Marsh. Departing approx
6am, return approx 8pm
All chapter questions from
chapters 1-8 due this week
Experiment – Oxidation states of
Transition Metals