This bundle contains all the information you need to know to potentially guarantee yourself 45% of the marks on your Leaving Certificate Chemistry paper.
7 lessons are included which are 70 minutes each and packed with fully worked solutions to past exam paper questions and notes.
Lesson 1 learning objectives covered:
– What organic chemistry actually is
– The definition of hydrocarbon, fossil fuels and saturated vs unsaturated compounds, alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and aromatics.
– IUPAC rules for hydrocarbon nomenclature.
– Detailed method and practice questions regarding naming of hydrocarbon compounds.
– Structural isomers
– x2 mandatory experiments: the preparation of ethene and the preparation of ethyne along with practice past exam paper questions.
Lesson 2 learning objectives covered:
– Fractional distillation
– Oil refining and its products
– Autoignition
– Octane number
– Ways of increasing octane number
– Hydrogen as a fuel
– Mandatory experiment 3: to determine heat of reaction of HCL with NaOH along with associated calculations and past exam paper questions.
Lesson 3 learning objectives covered:
– Worked solutions for masses of previous Q6’s – Organic Questions surrounding the theme of thermochemistry.
– Some past paper questions for the first 3 mandatory experiments taught in the previous 2 lessons.
Lesson 4 learning objectives covered:
– Chloroalkanes and their uses
– Functional groups
– Alcohols, the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols.
– Aldehydes
– Ketones
– Carboxylic acids
– Esters (how to name and draw).
– Importantly, during this lesson I also go through a detailed summary of the properties of organic compounds and their functional groups i.e the solubility and boiling point of organic compounds based on intra and intermolecular forces. It’s necessary to have this information on the tip of your tongue to do well in Question 8 on the LC Chemistry paper.
Lesson 5 learning objectives covered:
– Mandatory experiment: to extract clove oil from cloves
– Benzene, its structure and uses.
– Detailed explanation of 1 mechanism of reaction: the substitution reaction.
– Worked solutions for past paper exam questions.
Lesson 6 learning objectives covered:
– Mandatory experiment: to prepare a sample of soap
– Detailed explanation of 1 mechanism of reaction: the addition reaction.
– Worked solutions for past paper exam questions.
Lesson 7 learning objectives covered:
– PVC (polymers)
– Mandatory experiment: to study the oxidising ability of aldehydes
– Mandatory experiment: oxidation of phenyl methanol to benzoic acid.
– Worked solutions for past paper exam questions.
