Chemistry of transition elements — AS & A Level Chemistry 9701

Chemistry of transition elements — AS & A Level Chemistry 9701: 5 chapters and 278 lesson cards — AI teacher explanations, worked examples, diagrams, common mistakes and exam-style questions, aligned to the Cambridge AS & A Level Chemistry 9701 syllabus.

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1. General physical and chemical properties of the first row of transition elements — Introduction · Key ideas — Defining a transition element · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Shapes of the 3d orbitals · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Characteristic properties of transition elements · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Explaining variable oxidation states · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Explaining catalytic behaviour and complex formation · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Worked example — Model answer · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · Common mistakes · Practice
2. General characteristic chemical properties of transition elements — Introduction · Key ideas — Ligands, complexes and coordination number · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Monodentate, bidentate and polydentate ligands · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Shapes of complexes · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Ligand exchange · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Feasibility of redox reactions · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Redox titrations of transition metal ions · Worked example · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · Common mistakes · Practice
3. Colour of complexes — Introduction · Key ideas — Degenerate and non-degenerate d orbitals · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Splitting of d orbitals in octahedral and tetrahedral complexes · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Why transition metal complexes are coloured · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Effect of the ligand on splitting and colour · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Colour changes on ligand exchange · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Worked example · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · Common mistakes · Practice
4. Stereoisomerism in transition element complexes — Introduction · Key ideas — Geometrical isomerism in square planar complexes · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Geometrical isomerism in octahedral complexes · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Optical isomerism in octahedral complexes with bidentate ligands · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Complexes showing both types of isomerism · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Deducing the polarity of a complex · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Worked example · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · Common mistakes · Practice
5. Stability constants, Kstab — Introduction · Key ideas — Defining the stability constant · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Writing and using the expression · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Stability constant calculations · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Key ideas — Ligand exchange explained by stability constants · 🧑‍🏫 Teacher's explanation · 📖 Definitions · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · 🧠 Quick check 1 · 🧠 Quick check 2 · 🎯 Exam question · Worked example · 🔍 Worked example — Easy · 🔍 Worked example — Standard · 🔍 Worked example — Exam-style · ⚠️ Common errors · Common mistakes · Practice