Chemistry II · Class 11

Chapters

1. Redox Reactions
   • What oxidation and reduction actually track
   • Which metal gives its electrons away first
   • One rule for every oxidation number
   • What a redox equation's shape reveals
   • When a single element oxidises itself
   • A fraction no single atom actually holds
   • Balancing a redox equation exactly, by two routes
   • Reading a titration's end point
   • Ranking who gives up electrons most easily
   • One idea behind three definitions
2. Organic Chemistry: Some Basic Principles and Techniques
   • Carbon's own shape, and how a chemist puts it on paper
   • Turning a carbon skeleton into one unambiguous name
   • Letting the reactive group choose the name
   • The same formula, two different objects in space
   • What forms when a bond breaks
   • Why one carbocation outlives another
   • Pulling one compound cleanly out of everything else
   • Finding out which elements are hiding in a covalent compound
   • Turning a percentage into a proof of formula
3. Hydrocarbons
   • One test, and three different answers hiding behind one word
   • Naming a saturated chain, and the shapes it keeps taking
   • Building one alkane on purpose, and why two routes quietly fail
   • What a saturated chain does, and does not, react with
   • The double bond that will not rotate, its structure, its name and its two faces in space
   • Making, then attacking, a double bond: the electrophilic addition mechanism
   • Reading a double bond's position from its own wreckage
   • The triple bond: naming it, shaping it, making it
   • One acidic hydrogen, and a triple bond that adds twice
   • Benzene's own puzzle: six equal hydrogens, one real structure
   • Substitution, not addition: why the ring survives, and what decides where the next group goes