Tuesday 23 February 2016

Thursday 11 February 2016

Reactions of Hydrocarbons

The students were challenged to generalise the reactions of hydrocarbons.How can we use these to differentiate between unknown samples of hydrocarbons?

Wednesday 10 February 2016

Alkenes - Geometric Isomerism

Our first lesson about alkenes was aiming to work out some rules about geometric isomerism:


Thursday 4 February 2016

Functional Groups

We were given hexagons with the names of the major functional groups we are learning about this year. On the back, we have to write some key details:
  1. General Formula
  2. Functional Group
  3. Physical Properties
  4. Preparation
  5. Chemical Reactions/Tests
There are also some revision activities that we can do with these:

Isomerism and Nomenclature

A recap of Year 12, and a brief introduction to enantiomers:


Enantiomers will be covered again in more detail, so this was just an introduction to them. Here are some molecular formulae for some organic compounds we used to try and apply our knowledge to: