Chemistry 9701 · 36 Organic synthesis
36.1 Organic synthesis
Identify functional groups, predict reactions, and design multi-step synthetic routes for complex organic molecules.
- Questions
- 21
- Years
- 2015–2026
- Multiple choice
- 3
- Written answer
- 18
- Average marks
- 8.4
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- Paper 4variants 41, 42, 43, 4418
- Paper 1variants 11, 133
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| 2022 | – | 1 | 1 |
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| 2020 | 1 | – | 1 |
| 2018 | – | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | – | 1 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
