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Atomic Structure and Bonding	Covers basic atomic properties (electronic structures, ionisation energies, electron affinities, atomic and ionic radii, and the atomic hydrogen emission spectrum), bonding (including intermolecular bonding) and structures (ionic, molecular, giant covalent and metallic).
Inorganic Chemistry	Includes essential ideas about redox reactions, and covers the trends in Period 3 and Groups 1, 2, 4 and 7 of the Periodic Table. Plus: lengthy sections on the chemistry of some important complex ions, and of common transition metals. Extraction and uses of aluminium, copper, iron and titanium.
Physical Chemistry	Covers rates of reaction including catalysis, an introduction to chemical equilibria, redox equilibria, acid-base equilibria (pH, buffer solutions, indicators, etc) and phase equilibria (including Raoult's Law and the use of various phase diagrams).
Instrumental analysis	Explains how you can analyse substances using machines - mass spectrometry, infra-red spectroscopy, NMR, UV-visible absorption spectrometry and chromatography.
Basic Organic Chemistry	Includes help on bonding, naming and isomerism, and a discussion of organic acids and bases.
Properties of organic compounds	Covers the physical and chemical properties of compounds on UK A level chemistry syllabuses, and includes a limited amount of biochemistry.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms	Covers all the mechanisms required by the current UK A level chemistry syllabuses.
About this site	Includes a contact address if you have found any difficulties with the site.
Questions and comments	A selection of questions that I have been asked lots of times about Chemguide together with a few general comments. There are also a number of chemistry questions that I have been asked and which I haven't been able to find good answers for!
Chemistry Calculations	A description of the author's book on calculations at UK A level chemistry standard.
Textbook suggestions	Suggestions for textbooks and revision guides covering the UK AS and A level chemistry syllabuses, with links to Amazon.co.uk if you want to follow them up.
Download syllabuses	For UK students and international students using UK exams (e.g. Cambridge International). Download a copy of your current syllabus from your examiners.
Links	A random collection of links to sites that I have found interesting or useful. You will find it is a fairly quirky collection - that's deliberate.

Latest additions and important updates

5/12/2007	Over the last few months, I have found so many problems with the Cambridge International (CIE) Chemistry Applications Support Booklet (unhelpful writing styles, poor explanations and wrong information) that I have decided that I have to make them public so that students and their teachers are aware of them - and can perhaps persuade CIE to rewrite it.
6/12/2007	I have added a page of links, just a few at the moment, but I will add more over time. Some are useful; some are just interesting!

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