These resources are designed for self study and contain tutorials and self assessment quizzes on key aspects of first year chemistry.
- Atomic Symbols: how to read atomic symbols to extract the number of electrons, protons and neutrons for atoms, cations and anions.
- Balancing chemical equations: how to write and then balance chemical equations.
- Cell potentials: how to calculate standard cell potentials from half cell potentials.
- The Elements: games and quizzes to help familiarity with the Periodic Table.
- Empirical formula calculator: work out the empirical formula of a compoound from its elements and their percentage masses.
- Flashcards: flashcards on a variety of topics including common organic functional groups and common cations and anions.
- Galvanic cells: understanding what is going on when a cell is operating, including the direction of electron and ion flow.
- Heat capacity: the difference between heat and temperature and how to convert between them using heat capacities.
- Inorganic nomenclature: how to write the formula and names of inorganic compounds.
- Nomenclature for complexes: how to write the formulae and names of transition metal complexes following the updated IUPAC rules.
- Le Chatelier's principle: how to predict the direction in which an equilibrium will shift when a change is applied.
- Lewis structures: how to draw Lewis structures for molecules obeying and disobeying the octet rule.
- Lewis structure maker: build interactive Lewis structures containing multiple bonds and lone pairs for molecules obeying and disobeying the octet rule.
- Limiting reagents: how to work out which reagent is the limiting reagent in a reaction, and how much product will result.
- MO energies: study the effect of orbital overlap and energies on bonding and the energy and form of molecular orbitals.
- MO diagrams: build interactive molecular orbital diagrams for diatomic molecules.
- Molar mass calculator: simply enter a formula and calculate the molar mass, the number of moles in 1 g and the percentage by mass of each element.
- Moles: introduction to the concept of the mole and help with converting between mass, molar mass and moles.
- Organic isomers: tutorial on isomerism in organic chemistry, including chirality.
- Organic structures: tutorial on how organic structures are drawn as condensed structural formulae and as stick structures and how to convert between them.
- Oxidation numbers: how to work out the oxidation number of an element in a molecule or ion.
- Redox reactions: how to write redox equations by combining half cell reactions.
- Significant figures: how to work out the number of significant figures that can be justified when adding, dividing, multiplying and subtracting measurements.
- Solutions: how to work out concentrations and how to convert between molarity, moles and volume.
- Common crystal structures: 3D, rotatable and interactive versions of the commonest crystal types
- Close packing: buidling solids based on repeating ABABABAB... and ABCABCABC... layers
- Packing and unit cells: relationship between the cubic and hexagonal close packed layers and their unit cells


