Background Information
Grade 12 is the beginning of Organic Chemistry for the students, it is therefore important for them to familiarize themselves with the following concepts:
- students need to be aware of location and use of safety equipment provided in chemistry laboratory
- review the meaning of WHMIS and safety symbols (safety quiz)
- review covalent bond formation
- bond polarity: students need to be reminded that bond polarity is determined by electronegativity difference between two atoms
- organic compounds are easily combustible in reacted with molecular oxygen
- concepts of intramolecular and intermolecular bonding