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A chemical bond in which two atoms share one or more pairs of electrons.

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Covalent Bond

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Atoms of the same element having different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei.

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Isotopes

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A charged chemical species.

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Ion

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The most stable orbital arrangement of electrons in an atom or molecule.

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Ground-state configuration

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A chemical bond in which two atoms share one or more pairs of electrons.

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Covalent Bond

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The net electrical character arising from an asymmetric charge distribution.

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Dipole moment

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A compound formed between two elements with different electronegativities.

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Ionic compound

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A bond that possesses an asymmetric distribution of electrons.

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A polar covalent bond

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The molecular shape in which a central atom is bonded to four other atoms located at the corners of an imaginary tetrahedron.

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Tetrahedral

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The molecular shape in which a central atom is bonded to five other atoms located at the corners of a trigonal bipyramid.

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Trigonal bipyramidal

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The molecular shape in which a central atom is bonded to three other atoms lying in a plane at 120° angles to one another.

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Trigonal planar

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The principle of minimising electron–electron repulsion by placing electron pairs as far apart as possible.

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Valence-shell-electron-pair repulsion (VSEPR)

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The temperature and pressure above which the distinction between the liquid and vapour phases disappears.

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Critical point

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The attractive force between polar molecules that results from the negative end of one molecule aligning with the positive end of its neighbour.

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Dipole–dipole forces

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The force resulting from the induction of a dipole in a molecule by a neighbouring molecule having a permanent dipole.

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Dipole-induced dipole forces

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The attraction between the negatively charged electron cloud of one molecule and the positively charged nuclei of neighbouring molecules.

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Dispersion forces

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A moderately strong intermolecular attraction caused by the partial sharing of electrons between a highly electronegative atom of F, O or N and the polar hydrogen atom in a F─H, O─H or N─H bond.

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Hydrogen bond

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The ease with which the electron density about an atom or molecule can be distorted.

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Polarisability

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A molecule composed only of carbon and hydrogen atoms in which all carbon–carbon bonds are single.

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Alkane

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An unsaturated hydrocarbon with a carbon–carbon double bond.

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Alkene

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An unsaturated hydrocarbon with a carbon–carbon triple bond.

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Alkyne

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The bonds connecting axial groups. For organic conformers, the axial bonds are those that are oriented perpendicular to the plane of the chair, boat or envelope.

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Axial Bonds

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A stereoisomer that differs in the positioning of two groups with respect to a reference plane.

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cis–trans isomer

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An isomer that cannot be interconverted by rotation around a single bond.

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Configurational isomer

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Isomers with different sequences of atom connectivity.

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Constitutional isomers

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Bonds oriented in a chair conformation of a cyclic structure in the general plane of the seat of the chair.

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Equatorial bonds

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A group of atoms within an organic molecule that determines the molecule’s chemical reactivity.

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Functional group

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A molecule composed only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.

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Hydrocarbon

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A hydrocarbon in which at least one carbon atom does not have the maximum possible number of atoms bonded to it.

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Unsaturated hydrocarbon

30
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A compound in which the carbon atom of the C═O group is bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.

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Ketone

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Isomers with the same molecular formula and the same connectivity but different orientations of their atoms in space.

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Stereoisomers

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A molecule that contains a separation of electric charge.

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Polar molecule

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Molecules with the same molecular formula but different structures.

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Isomers

34
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An ─OH group.

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Hydroxyl Group

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A functional group generated by combining a carboxylic acid and an alcohol with the elimination of water to give a carbonyl carbon atom that is also further bound to a different saturated carbon atom via an oxygen atom linkage.

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Ester

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A pair of stereoisomers that are nonsuperimposable mirror images of each other.

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Enantiomers

37
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A compound with two alcohol groups.

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Diol

38
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A pair of stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other.

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Diastereomers

39
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Isomers with different sequences of atom connectivity.

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Constitutional isomers

40
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Describes an object that is not superimposable on its mirror image.

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Chiral

41
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A ─COOH group.

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Carboxyl group

42
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Molecules containing the C═O (carbonyl) group.

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Carbonyl compounds

43
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An acyl group bonded to a trivalent nitrogen atom.

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Amide

44
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An amine in which the nitrogen atom is bonded only to alkyl groups.

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aliphatic amine

45
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A compound containing an ─OH (hydroxyl) group bonded to an sp3 hybridised carbon atom.

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Alcohol

46
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A carbonyl group bonded to an alkyl or aryl group

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Acyl group

47
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Describes an object that lacks chirality; that is, it is superimposable on its mirror image.

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Achiral

48
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Derivatives of ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms are replaced by alkyl or aryl groups.

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Amines

49
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The ease with which the electron density about an atom or molecule can be distorted

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Polarisability

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