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GAMSAT Organic Chemistry Syllabus Basic and Common Functional Groups Organic Chemistry Basics Molecular Representations! 3D bond-line structures! Identifying lone pairs of electrons! Resonance! Hybrid orbitals Alkanes! Naming alkanes! Naming substituents! Constitutional Isomers of alkanes! Newman projections! Cyclohexane and chair conformations Stereochemistry! Isomerism! Important concepts in stereoisomerism! Designating R and S! Relationships between enantiomers and diastereomers! Meso compounds! Fischer projections Substitution Reactions! Alkyl halides! The SN2 mechanism! The SN1 mechanism Elimination Reactions: Structure and Preparation of Alkenes!

Nomenclature of alkenes! Stereoisomerism in alkenes! Elimination reactions! E2 reactions! E1 reactions Addition Reactions! Hydrohalogenation! Hydration! Hydrogenation! Halogenation Alkynes Radical Reactions Alcohols and Phenols! Physical properties of alcohols! Acidity of alcohols and phenols! Preparation of alcohols using Grignard reagents Spectroscopy! Infrared spectroscopy! Nuclear Magnetic resonance spectroscopy Aromatic Rings! Nomenclature of aromatic rings Aromatic Substitution Reactions! Electrophilic aromatic substitution! Sulfonation! Nitration! Activating groups! Deactivating groups

Aldehydes and Ketones! Introduction! Nomenclature of aldehydes! Nomenclature of Ketones! Preparation of aldehydes and ketones! Important reactions of aldehydes and ketones Carboxylic Acids! Nomenclature! Structure of carboxylic acids! Acidity of carboxylic acids! Preparation of carboxylic acids! Reactions of carboxylic acids Amines! Classification! Nomenclature! Properties of amines! Preparation of amines! Important reactions of amines Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins! Introduction! Structure and properties of amino acids! Acid-Base properties! Peptide synthesis! Protein structure! Protein function

GAMSAT General Chemistry Syllabus Atoms and Molecules! Atoms! Elements! The periodic table! Ions! Molecules! Naming inorganic compounds! Chemical reactions and equations! Types of Chemical Reactions! Oxidation numbers and redox reactions! Oxidising VS reducing agents Gases! Kinetic molecular theory Kinetics and chemical equilibrium! The collision theory! Equations for reaction rates! Determining the rate law by experiment! Reaction orders! Rates of reversible reactions! Catalysis! Equilibrium! The reaction quotient! Le Chatelier’s principle Thermodynamics! The first law of thermodynamics! The second law of thermodynamics!

Thermodynamic functions! Internal energy! Temperature! Pressure! Enthalpy! Entropy! Gibbs free energy Solutions! Units of concentration! Vapor pressure! Solubility! Phase Diagrams Acids and Bases! Definitions! Equilibrium constants for acid-base reactions! Logarithms! Titrations! Buffers Electrochemistry! Oxidation-reduction potentials! Galvanic cells! Electrolytic cell...