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Flashcards for SQA Advanced Higher Chemistry (specification version 4.0, session 2026-27), split into the course's four subject areas and then by key area, in the specification's own order. Data booklet values, such as infrared absorptions and NMR shifts, are left for you to look up, so the cards cover the ideas, reactions and methods you use them with.

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What is inside (62 subdecks)

  • 1 Inorganic chemistry153 cards
    • 1(a) Electromagnetic radiation and atomic spectra29 cards
    • 1(b) Atomic orbitals, electronic configurations and the periodic table61 cards
      • Shapes of molecules and ions (VSEPR)22 cards
      • Standing waves, orbitals and quantum numbers33 cards
      • Writing electron configurations6 cards
    • 1(c) Transition metals63 cards
      • Catalysis by transition metals7 cards
      • Electron configuration of transition metal atoms and ions14 cards
      • Ligands and complex ions15 cards
      • Oxidation numbers17 cards
      • Splitting of d orbitals and colour10 cards
  • 2 Physical chemistry114 cards
    • 2(a) Chemical equilibrium67 cards
      • Acids and bases22 cards
      • Buffer solutions10 cards
      • Equilibrium constant Kc14 cards
      • Indicators9 cards
      • Water, pH and Kw12 cards
    • 2(b) Reaction feasibility26 cards
      • Enthalpy and entropy14 cards
      • Free energy and feasibility12 cards
    • 2(c) Kinetics21 cards
  • 3 Organic chemistry and instrumental analysis208 cards
    • 3(a) Molecular orbitals40 cards
    • 3(b) Synthesis99 cards
      • Alcohols14 cards
      • Alkenes11 cards
      • Amines7 cards
      • Aromatic chemistry11 cards
      • Bond fission and curly arrow notation23 cards
      • Carboxylic acids7 cards
      • Ethers8 cards
      • Haloalkanes14 cards
      • Nomenclature and structural formulae4 cards
    • 3(c) Stereo chemistry23 cards
    • 3(d) Experimental determination of structure35 cards
      • Elemental microanalysis4 cards
      • Infrared spectroscopy6 cards
      • Mass spectrometry8 cards
      • Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy17 cards
    • 3(e) Pharmaceutical chemistry11 cards
  • 4 Researching chemistry134 cards
    • 4(a) Common chemical apparatus14 cards
    • 4(b) Skills involved in experimental work9 cards
    • 4(c) Stoichiometric calculations22 cards
      • Concepts11 cards
      • Worked calculations11 cards
    • 4(d) Gravimetric analysis12 cards
    • 4(e) Volumetric analysis25 cards
      • Standard solutions and primary standards13 cards
      • Types of titration9 cards
      • Worked titration calculations3 cards
    • 4(f) Practical skills and techniques52 cards
      • Colorimetry7 cards
      • Distillation3 cards
      • Heating under reflux3 cards
      • Melting point and mixed melting point8 cards
      • Recrystallisation6 cards
      • Solvent extraction7 cards
      • Thin-layer chromatography15 cards
      • Vacuum filtration3 cards

Some of its cards

  • What should be included when tabulating experimental data?
    Appropriate headings and units of measurement
  • What is infrared spectroscopy used to identify?
    Certain functional groups in an organic compound
  • What two things can mass spectrometry be used to determine for an organic compound?
    Its accurate gram formula mass (GFM) and structural features
  • What is the standard enthalpy of formation, ΔHf∘\Delta H_f^\circ, of a substance?
    The enthalpy change on forming one mole of the substance from its elements, with everything in its standard state
  • How can an alkene be prepared from an alcohol?
    By dehydration, passing it over hot aluminium oxide, or heating it with concentrated sulfuric or concentrated phosphoric acid
  • What is the melting point of a substance?
    The span of temperature from when the solid begins to soften and melt through to when none of it is left solid
  • What is bond fission?
    The process of a bond breaking during a chemical reaction
  • What happens to the d orbitals of a transition metal ion when it forms a complex?
    They are no longer degenerate: they split into orbitals of higher and lower energy
  • What is gravimetric analysis used to determine?
    How much of a given element or compound a substance contains, by mass
  • What are acid-base titrations based on?
    Neutralisation reactions between an acid and a base

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