Chemistry study guides

A deep-dive SQA Advanced Higher Chemistry guide to Area 1 Inorganic and Physical Chemistry. Covers electromagnetic radiation and atomic spectra, atomic orbitals and electronic configuration, transition metals and complexes, chemical equilibrium with weak acids and buffers, reaction feasibility from entropy and free energy, and kinetics with rate equations and mechanisms.

A deep-dive SQA Advanced Higher Chemistry guide to Area 2 Organic Chemistry and Instrumental Analysis. Covers molecular orbitals and hybridisation, stereochemistry with geometric and optical isomerism, synthesis and synthetic routes, the experimental determination of structure by microanalysis, mass spectrometry, infrared and NMR spectroscopy, and pharmaceutical chemistry.

A deep-dive SQA Advanced Higher Chemistry guide to Area 3 Researching Chemistry. Covers common laboratory apparatus and techniques, stoichiometric, gravimetric and volumetric calculations, and the practical skills of planning, data handling, analysis, evaluation and reporting assessed by the project.