Chemical bonds Flashcards
What is a chemical bond?
Interaction of an atom which binds them into molecules, ions, radicals and crystals. At the formation of chemical bonds, electrons can participate.
What are main characteristics of Chemical Bonds?
Chemical bond energy, length, valence angle, directionality of bonds
What is bond energy?
Minimum amount of energy required to break a bond. Denoted as E and is measured in kJ/mol or kcal/mol
The higher the bond enegy, the stronger the connection.
What does the value of the bond enegy depend on?
The nature of interacting atoms, type and order of bond..
What is chemical bond length?
The distance between the nuclei of the interacting atoms.
Denoted by the lettter “r” and is expressed in A (n.m)
What is bond angle?
Called the valence angle. The angle between H-O in H2O is 104.5, and the angle between bonds in CH4 is 109.5
What is bond multiplicity?
The number of electron pairs that bind 2 atoms.
Can be single, double, triple or quatinatery.
What does the increase in Bond multiplicity lead to?
Increase of bond energy, strength and decrease of length of bond.
How do atoms mainly form chemical bonds?
Through unpaired electrons. Main types of bonds are considered to be ionic, covalent, metallic and hydrogen bonds.
What is a covalent bond?
A chemical bond formed by a shared pair of electrons. Two electron and two center (holds two cores) connection.
All unpaired electrons and some paired are involved in formations of covalent bonds.
According to the method of overlapping electronic orbitals, how can bonds be distinguised?
They can be distinguished into Pi and Sigma bonds.
What are Sigma bonds?
Covalent bond where the atomic orbitals overlap along the line connecting the center of interacting atoms.
Always single bonds
What are Pi (π) bonds?
Covalent bond which, during formation, overlap above and below the connecting the center of interacting atoms.
However, they are only complimentary, double and triple bonds
What are the two types of covalent bonds?
Polar and Non-polar bonds
What is a non-polar bond?
Non-polar bonds is formed between two atoms with the same electromagnetivity, whre electron pairs equally belong to both atoms.