Covalent Bonding Flashcards
Covalent bond
a chemical bond that involves the electrostatic attraction of a shared pair of electrons and two nuclei
Ionic bond
a chemical bond that involves the electrostatic attraction of cation and an anion
molecular covalent
atoms of the different elements are held together in molecules by covalent bonds
covalent network
a chemical compound (or element) in which the atoms are bonded by covalent bonds in a continuous network extending throughout the material (no fixed chemical formula, but a fixed ratio of elements)
metallic bonding
a chemical bond that involves the electrostatic attraction of a metal cation and a sea of delocalized electrons
electrostatic attraction
when two particle types have opposite charge and there is mutual attraction.
Electronegativity
a measure of an atom’s ability to attract shared electrons to itself
Molecule
a group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction
Lewis formula
structures that show the connectivity, or bonding sequence of the atoms, indicating single, double, or triple bonds
Bonding electrons
electrons involved in chemical bonding
Lone pairs
a pair of valence electrons that are not shared with another atom in a covalent bond
Expanded Octets
When atoms contain more than eight electrons in their valence shell, they are said to be hypervalent, only elements in row three and below can be hypervalent
Electron deficient
An electron-deficient compound is one in which the central atom’s octet is incomplete due to a lack of electrons. Boron and Beryllium are the examples you need to know.
Polyatomic ion
molecular ions composed of two or more atoms bonded by covalent bonds and acting as a single unit, but unlike molecules, they have a net charge on them.
You need to know: ammonium, hydroxide, nitrate, hydrogencarbonate, carbonate, sulfate and phosphate.
Octet rule
the tendency of atoms to prefer to have eight electrons in the valence shell
Bond order
the number of bonding pairs of electrons between two atoms
single bond
a chemical bond between two atoms involving two valence electrons
double bond
a chemical bond between two atoms involving four valence electrons
triple bond
a chemical bond between two atoms involving six valence electrons
coordinate bond
a covalent bond (a shared pair of electrons) in which both electrons come from the same atom
VSEPR
Valance shell electron pair repulsion theory, used to find molecular and electron domain geometries
electron domain
the number of lone pairs or bond locations around a particular atom in a molecule
bonding domain
an electron domain involved in bonding
non-bonding domain
an electron domain with non-bonding or lone pair electrons
molecular geometry
the three dimensional shape of a molecule, found using the number of bonding domains in a specific electron domain geometry
electron domain geometry
the three dimensional geometry of all electron domains in a molecule (both lone pairs and bonds)