Course Introduction Synthesis provides many of the chemicals that people need for food processing, health care, cleaning and decorating, modern sporting materials and many other products. The chemical industry today is developing new processes for manufacturing these chemicals more efficiently and with less impact on the environment. This course covers Topic C6: Chemical Synthesis which is examined on Paper 2 of the GCSE OCR Chemistry A Course. Topics covered in this chapter include: Methods of Separation Rates of Reaction Calculations involving masses and balanced equations