Chemistry 1 → Inorganic chemistry
Choose a course designed around topics commonly taught at an approximate age or learning level. This is not school placement or equivalency; start where you feel comfortable and choose another course at any time.
Each level builds on the one before. Start wherever feels comfortable.
Chemistry 1 · Ages 14–18 · about 26 hours
What matter is made of and how it is held together, and what happens to the counting when it reacts: atoms, the periodic table, bonding and the forces between molecules; formulae, equations and the mole; solutions, gases, energy changes and the nucleus.
Take first: Algebra I
Chemistry 2 · Ages 14–18 · about 14 hours
Kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, redox and electrochemistry, and thermodynamics as predictive chemical models.
Take first: Chemistry: first principles
Organic chemistry · Ages 18+ · about 11 hours
Organic structure, acid-base reasoning, reaction mechanisms, stereochemistry, and introductory spectroscopy.
Take first: Chemistry: rates, equilibrium and acids
Inorganic chemistry · Ages 18+ · about 22 hours
The d block from its electron configurations to the color, magnetism, shape and stability of its complexes; symmetry, molecular orbitals, solids, catalysis and biological metal sites, including oxygen carriers, zinc enzymes and medicinal complexes.
Take first: Organic chemistry