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- Subject: Chemistry
- AS: AS90932
- Level: 1
- Credits: 4
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Chemistry 1.3 Demonstrate understanding of aspects of carbon chemistry
Subject content
Make sure you have up-to-date course notes and don't forget to use them. If you haven't got them, see your teacher.
You may be tested on:
- Structure of straight chain alkanes (up to 8 carbons), ethane and propene, methanol and ethanol. This includes:
- Naming, using systematic nomenclature.
- Drawing structural formulae
- Describing covalent bonding between atoms within molecules.
- Physical properties of carbon compounds (as identified above), such as
- Solubility in water
- Trends in melting and/or boiling points and explanation of these trends
- Chemical reactions of carbon compounds such as
- Conditions and products of complete and incomplete combustion (including balanced equations)
- Reactions of ethene and propene to form polymers, including any conditions required for the reactions (eg; heat and catalysts).
- Production of carbon compounds by the following methods:
- Fractional distillation of crude oil
- Cracking of fractions
- Fermentation (including the conditions required and the chemical reaction occurring)
- Methanol from natural gas
- Uses and importance of fuels and polymers from ethene and propene. (Check out this BBC website about crude oil and oil products and its section on the formation of polymers.)
- Effects of combustion products on human health and the environment. This may include:
- Effect on global climate
- Ocean acidification
- Air pollution
- Use of non-renewable resources and food crops for fuels
Check out the carbon element on the WebElements periodic table by clicking onto C, for Carbon.
A lot of information, at your level, about organic chemistry that relates to carbon, carbon compounds, and their uses can be found at Extra GCSE organic chemistry.
Test yourself by naming some simple carbon compounds on Quia - Organic nomenclature.
