Advanced Chemistry in Creation

This advanced chemistry course can be taken after a college-preparatory chemistry course. Students taking this course should have successfully completed algebra 2. Topics include stoichiometry (with limiting reactions), thermodynamics, kinetics, redox reactions, atomic structure, orbital hybridization, molecular orbitals, molecular geometry, chemical equilibrium, and nuclear chemistry. Students will also be introduced to organic chemistry, focusing on the major functional groups, organic nomenclature, and polymer chemistry. With more than 28 hours of laboratory exercises in this course, students will participate in experiments such as the rate of an iodine clock reaction, distillation, chromatography, the common ion effect, measuring pH changes in a buffer, the electrolysis of copper sulfate, polymerization experiments, the hydrolysis of sucrose, and much more!