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Topic 4 - Chemical bonding Flashcards

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How are ions formed?

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  • when one or more electrons are transferred from one atom to another
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What is an ionic bond?

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  • the electrostatic attraction experienced between the electric charges of a cation and an anion
  • build up into a strong lattice
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What is oxidation?

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  • loss of electrons

- gain of oxygen

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What is reduction?

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  • gain of electrons

- loss of oxygen

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Between what are ionic compounds generally formed by?

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  • metals and non-metals
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What is the octet rule?

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  • elements tend to lose electrons (oxidation), gain electrons (reduction) or share electrons to acquire a noble gas core electron configuration
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What is volatility?

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  • the tendency of a substance to vaporise
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How are the boiling and melting points of ionic compounds and why?

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  • high
  • strong electrostatic attractions between ions
  • large input of energy needed to break apart the forces
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How is the volatility of ionic compounds and why?

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  • low

- electrostatic forces of attraction are very strong

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How is the electrical conductivity of ionic compounds and why?

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  • good electrical conductor when molten
  • ions cannot move in a lattice structure (do not conduct)
  • ions are free to move in a molten state (conduct?
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How is the solubility of ionic compounds and why?

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  • dissolve in polar solvents

- do not dissolve in non-polar solvents

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How are covalent bonds formed?

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  • an electrostatic attraction between the shared pair of electrons and the positively shared nuclei
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What kind of region is a covalent bond?

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  • relatively high electron density between nuclei that arises at least partly from the sharing of electrons and gives rise to an attractive force and characteristic internuclear distance
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Between what are covalent compounds generally formed by?

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  • non-metals
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What is the Lewis electron dot structure?

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  • simple method of representing the valence electrons of an element
  • each element is surrounded by a number of dots/crosses that represent the valence electrons
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How are the boiling and melting points of covalent compounds?

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  • low
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How is the volatility of covalent compounds?

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  • can be
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How is the electrical conductivity of covalent compounds and why?

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  • do not conduct

- there are no ions to carry the charge

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How is the solubility of covalent compounds?

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  • typically insoluble
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How is a polar covalent bond formed?

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  • when one has a greater attraction - one atom has a partial negative charge and the other a partial positive charge
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What is a dipole moment?

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  • vectorial representation of the separation of charge
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What is a pure covalent bond?

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  • when the two atoms involved are identical
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What is electronegativity defined as?

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  • the relative attraction that an atom of an element has for the shared pair of electrons in a covalent bond
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What is the trend of electronegativity on the periodic table?

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  • increases across a period

- decreases down a group

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What is the valence shell electron pair repulsion theory?

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  • since electrons are negatively charged subatomic particles, pairs of electrons repel one another to be as far apart as possible in space
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What are delocalised electrons?

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  • shared by more than two atoms in a molecule of ion as opposed to being localised between a pair of atoms
27
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What is molecular polarity?

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  • whether the molecule itself is polar or non-polar

- distinct from the polarity of individual bonds - a non-polar molecule may have polar bonds

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What are allotropes?

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  • different structural modifications of the same element

- vary in both physical and chemical properties

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What are covalent network solids?

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  • atoms are held together by covalent bonds in a giant 3D lattice structure
30
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What is graphite?

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  • layers of hexagonal rings consisting of carbon atoms
  • connected by weak intermolecular forces of attraction called London forces
  • each carbon atom adopts a trigonal planar geometry (120°)
  • strong covalent bonds, but weak London forced between layers - meaning layers can slide over eachother
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What are the properties of covalent network solids?

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  • high melting point
  • poor electrical conductors (except graphite and graphene)
  • insoluble in common solvents
  • generally hard, but layers can slide over eachother
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What is diamond?

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  • each carbon is bonded to 4 other carbons

- one of the hardest substances due to the structure

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What is graphene?

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  • one of the thinnest and strongest of known materials
  • first 2D crystal discovered
  • densely packed carbon atoms in honeycomb crystalline lattice
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What is C60, fullerene?

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  • truncated icosahedral cage - football shape (spherically symmetrical)
  • each carbon forms 3 covalent bonds
  • known as ‘buckminsterfullerene’
  • not a covalent network solid
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What is silicon dioxide (SiO2 - quartz)?

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  • arrays of SiO4 tetrahedral arranged in a lattice

- round in its amorphous form as sand

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What is coordinate covalent bonding?

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  • covalent bond when the shared pair of electrons originates from only one of the atoms (donates the pair)
37
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What are intramolecular forces of attraction?

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  • hold atoms together within molecules, resulting in covalent bonds
  • affect molecular geometry, physical properties and reactivities of compounds
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What are intermolecular forces of attraction?

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  • interactions between molecules within a compound

- largely responsible for the bulk properties of matter (e.g. physical properties such as melting and boiling point)

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What are the 3 main forces of intermolecular forces of attraction? - all van der Waals forces

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  • London forces (or dispersion forces)
  • dipole-dipole forces
  • hydrogen bonding
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What are London forces?

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  • exist in all molecules
41
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What is polarisability?

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  • the ease of distortion of the electron cloud of a molecular entity by an electric field
42
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What is an orbital?

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  • region of space where there is a high probability of finding electrons
43
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What 3 factors affect the magnitude of London forces?

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1) number of electrons
2) size (volume) of electron cloud
3) shapes of molecules

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What are dipole-dipole forces?

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  • exist in all polar molecules with a permanent dipole moment
45
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What is Hydrogen bonding?

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  • an attractive interaction between a hydrogen atom from a molecular fragment, X - H, in which X is more electronegative than H, an an atom or group of atoms in the same or different molecule, in which there is evidence of bond formation
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What are the strength of the intermolecular forces?

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1) Hydrogen bonds
2) Dipole-dipole forces
3) London forces

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What is a metallic bond?

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  • the electrostatic attraction between a lattice of positive ions and delocalised electrons
  • giant lattice structure
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What are alloys?

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  • metallic material, homogenous or a macroscopic scale, consisting of two or more elements so combined that they cannot be readily separated by mechanical means
  • have enhanced properties (strength, hardness, durability)
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What is ductility?

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  • mechanical property that allows a metal to deform under tensile stress (able to be pulled into a wire)
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What is malleability?

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  • the ability of a solid to be pounded or hammered into a sheet or other shape without breaking

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