CHEMISTRY 3

1st Quarter: Organic Chemistry

A. Review

1. Hybridization of Carbon

2. Physical Properties of Hydrocarbons and Functional Groups

3. Nomenclature of Organic Compounds

B. Isomerism

C. Organic Reactions

1. Roles of Nucleophile and Electrophile in organic reactions

2. Addition, Substitution, Elimination, Hydrolysis, Condensation

3. Reactions of Alkanes

4. Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes

5. Halogen Derivatives: Halogenoalkanes

D. Applications

1. Industry in Focus

2. Environment in Focus

3. Applications of halogenoalkanes

2nd Quarter: Organic Chemistry II

A. Organic Reactions II

1. Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds: Aldehydes and Ketones

2. Reactions of Carboxylic acids

3. Reactions of Esters

B. Applications and commercial uses of alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and esters
 C. Biomolecules

1. Carbohydrates

2. Lipids

3. Proteins and Polypeptides

4. Review of Nucleic Acids: Structure and Function

D. Polymerization

1. Addition Polymerization (Free Radical polymerization)

2. Condensation Polymerization

3. Predicting the type of polymerization

4. Factors affecting the properties of polymers

5. H-bonding in pairing of bases in DNA

6. Industrial applications of polymers

7. Biomolecules as polymers

3rd Quarter: Inorganic Chemistry

A. The Periodic Table

1. Periodicity of physical properties of elements in the third period

2. Periodicity of the chemical properties of the elements in the third period

B. Group 2

C. Group 17

1. Physical properties of the Group 17 elements

2. The chemical properties of the elements and their hydrides

3. Some reactions of the halide ions

4. Applications of halogens and their compounds

4th Quarter

D. First Transition Elements

1. General physical properties

2. General characteristic chemical properties

3. Color of complexes

4. Stereoisomerism in transition element complexes

5. Stability constants, Kstab