A-level Chemistry Paper 2 Practical, Mechanisms & Organic Analysis Revision

Описание: Struggling to revise all the Paper 2 required practicals and organic techniques? This video breaks down exactly what to write in the exam for AQA, OCR, and Edexcel students. We cover organic required practicals (RP05, RP06, RP07, RP10) and dive into organic mechanisms and analysis including IR, NMR and Mass Spectrometry.

🔬 What’s included:
RP05: Distillation vs Reflux explained with diagrams and keywords. (Reflux is always open, not sealed!)
Anti-bumping granules: Why they're essential to prevent violent boiling.
Distillation temperatures: Why aldehydes distil off first – no hydrogen bonding = lower boiling point.

RP06: All the organic tests for alcohols, alkenes, aldehydes, carboxylic acids, halides.

RP07: Rate of reaction practical with silver nitrate, nucleophiles and bond strength trends

RP10: How to prepare organic liquids and solids – including examples:

Liquids: Esterification (carboxylic acid + alcohol), substitution (alcohol + HCl → haloalkane)

Solids: Nitration of methyl benzoate

Recrystallisation: Full step-by-step with reasons + how product is lost (filtering, solubility, side reactions)

🧪 Plus, we cover essential organic mechanisms (substitution, elimination, esterification) and finish with a full explanation of Organic Analysis:

Mass spectrometry for Mr and fragmentation

IR spectroscopy for identifying bonds (C=O, O–H, C–O)

Proton and carbon-13 NMR: what peaks mean and how to interpret structure using combined data

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