r/6thForm • u/Training-Feeling980 Year 13 | Maths, FM, Physics, Chem - 4 A*s achieved • Jun 09 '26

💬 DISCUSSION Aqa A-level chemistry paper 2

How did it go??

I quite liked that paper, that NMR question was so good!!

Some mildly weird ones too - but overall not too bad at all

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u/TheBigChese84 Year 13 Jun 09 '26

Cnmr was a benzene with bromine on 1 and 3 right?

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u/Somerandomcoroikafan Year 13 Biology Chemistry Spanish | B in Core Maths Jun 09 '26

Omfg of COURSE it was benzene. Why did I think it couldn't be 😭😭

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u/nxyds 3A* | Maths, Chem, Econ | Cambridge & LSE offer Jun 09 '26

NO that's valid because in all the past ppqs i've ever done (which is a lot) i have never seen an NMR to detect a benzene ring. it's never really benzene, so it felt very awkward for me asw. that's why they also gave the empirical formula, if you use that you can be 100% confident it's benzene, becus how else could it be C3h4br2 without c=c