CHEMISTRY SYLLABUS GRADE 12
No Topics Subtopics 1 Chemistry of our environment 1.1 Air quality 1.2 Carbon dioxide, methane and climate change 1.3 Water 2 Introduction to organic chemistry 2.1 Names and formulae of organic compounds 2.2 Structural formulae, homologous series and isomerism 3 Reactions of organic compounds 3.1 Characteristic reactions of different homologous series 3.2 Chemistry of ethanol 3.3 Carboxylic acids and esters 4 Petrochemicals and polymers 4.1 Petroleum and its products 4.2 Polymers 4.3 Plastics 5 Experimental design and separation techniques 5.1 Experimental design 5.2 Separation and purification 5.3 Chromatography 6 Chemical analysis 6.1 Tests to identify common cations 6.2 Tests to identify common anions 6.3 Tests to identify common gases 6.4 Quantitive analysis: acid-base titrations