CEM1000W Lecture Notes (Full year)

Handwritten, colourful lecture notes on the introduction to chemistry and the basics of stoichiometry. Includes a nice cheat sheet illustrating an approach to elemental analysis (combustion analysis).

Handwritten, colourful lecture notes on the three classes of chemical reactions: precipitation reactions including solubility rules, a summary of acid-base and redox reactions.

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on quantum theory, atomic structure, electron configuration, and chemical periodicity

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on models of chemical bonding (ionic, covalent, metallic), the shapes of molecules, and theories of covalent bonding, hybridisation

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on gas laws, pressures, and kinetic molecular theory

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on solutions, intermolecular forces in solutions, solubility, heat of solution, hydration, entropy, Henry’s Law, concentration terminology, and colligative properties.

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on acid-base equilibria, strong acids and bases, dissociation constant, auto-ionisation of water, pH, pOH, common ion effect, buffer solutions and calculations, titration curves.

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on chemical kinetics, reaction rates, half-lives, collision theory, and catalysts.

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on the reactivity of organic compounds. Types of reactions, bond breaking and formation, predicting acidity and basicity of organic compounds, electrophilic addition reactions, Markovnikov’s Rule, nucleophilic substitution reactions (SN2), Hughes-Ingold proposa...

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on inter-molecular forces, phase changes, phase equilibria, vapour pressure, boiling point, macroscopic properties of liquid, and structures of crystalline solids.

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on biologically important molecules including: carbohydrates, nucleic acids, proteins and amino acids, and lipids and peptides. RNA, DNA, zwitterions, isoelectronic point, ring structures, and stereochemistry.

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on chemical equilibria. Reaction Quotient and Equilibrium Constant, Kc and Kp, solving equilibrium problems, RICE tables, and Le Châtelier’s Principle.

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on the introfpduction to organic chemistry. Includes how to draw skeletal structures, nomenclature, stereochemistry, isomers, chiral centres, cyclohexane, chair conformations, arrow pushing reactions, A-values. Alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, carboxilic acids, esters...

Colourful, handwritten lecture notes on thermodynamics. Covering the laws of thermodynamics,spontaneous change, entropy, enthalpy, microstates, entropy change of the universe, Gibbs free energy, and work.