Syllabus
- Basics of nuclear structure and hybridisation
- Bonding and structure, H-bonding in organic systems and electronegativity
- Oxidation number and usage in Inorganic and organic chemistry
- Equilibria, Le Chatelier’s principle and its applications
- Solubility and Ksp calculations
- Solubility curves and phase diagrams
- Depression of freezing point and general colligative properties
- Acid Base equilibria, application to proteins and other biological systems, buffering, pKa usage and Indicators
- Buffering in the bloodstream
- Rates – the rate equation and determination of rate law
- Relation of rate law to mechanism
- Arrhenius equation, activation energy, relationship to biological mechanism
- Enzyme kinetics and development and use of Michaelis Menten equation
- Raoult’s law
- Entropy as a concept and Gibbs Free Energy
- Use of ΔG=ΔH-TΔS to predict reaction
- Chemical potential and application to biological systems
- Gibbs Free Energy profiles
- Osmotic pressure, Osmolarity and finding protein RMM
- Redox equilibria introduction
- Use of electrode potentials in predicting reaction, Nearnst equation, Electrode potentials in biological systems
- Stiff Diagrams
A range of other degree level areas are introduced, and application to simulated questions will enforce concepts, as they are covered on the course
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