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Transition Metals Flashcards

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What are the d-block transition metals

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Are metals with an incomplete d subshell in at least one of their lone pairs

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Why are copper and chromium different

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Due to a special stability associated with all the d orbitals being half filled or completely filled

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When transition metals from ions what happens to the sub shells

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4s subshell electrons are lost first rather than the 3d sub shells

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What do compounds have that are of the same transition metal but different oxidation states

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May have different colours

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What can oxidation and reeducation be considered as

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Oxidation can be considered as an increases in oxidation number and reduction can be considered as a decrease in oxidation number

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What tends to be oxidatising agents and reducing agents

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Compounds containing metals in high oxidation states tend to be oxidising agents
Compounds containing metals in low oxidation states are often reducing agents

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What are the general properties of transition metals

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Have atoms and ions with an incomplete d subshell
Can form complexes
Have variable oxidation states
Show catalytic ability
Form coloured ions

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Whats a transition metal defined as

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A metal that in at least one of its stable ions has a partly filled d subshell

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What is the oxidation number equal to

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The charge on the ion

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LEARN HOW TO FIND OXIDATION NUMBERS!!!!!!

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Whats oxidation

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Oxidation is the loss of electrons. So oxidation can be described as an increases in oxidation number

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Whats reduction

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Reduction is gain of electrons and can be said to decrease oxidation number

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What tends to be oxidising agents and reducing agents

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Compounds containing metals in high oxidation state
Compounds containing metals in low oxidation state

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What are examples of oxidising agents

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Acidified permanganate and acidified dichromate

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Whats a complex

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A complex consists of a central metal ion or atom surrounded by ligands

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What are ligands

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Ligands are electron donors and may be negative ions or molecules with non bonding pairs of electrons

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What can ligands be classified as

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Monodentate, bidentate up to hexdenate

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Whats the coordination number of the central atom

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The number of bonds from the ligand to the central metal ion or atom is known as the coordination number of the central atom

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What are coordination compounds

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When transition metals form complexes

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Where can you find ligands

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The molecules or ions surrounding the central metal ion or atom

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What do ligands have

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At least one lone pair of electrons which can form coordination bond to the metal

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What happens to lone pair of electrons on a ligand

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They are donated into an empty orbital in the transition metal atom or ion

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What are monodentate ligands

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Ligands that form one co ordinate bond to a metal atom or ion e.g NH3, H20

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What do lone pairs on ligands allow

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The lone pairs of electrons are on different atoms allowing the ligand to form more than one coordinate bond

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What is the coordination number

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The total number of coordinate bonds from the ligand to the enthral metal ion

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What are ligands referred to

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A Lewis bases

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LEARN HOW TO NAME COMPEXES !!!!!

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What are d orbitals in transition metals

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D orbitals are no longer degenerate

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Why do the same metal ion with different ligands have different colours

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Different ligands produce different field splitting and so complexes of the same metal ion with different ligands will have different colours

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What are strong field ligands

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Ligands that cause a large difference in energy between subshells of d orbitals

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What are weak field ligands

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Cause a small energy difference between subshells of d orbitals

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What does the energy difference between subshells of d orbitals depend on

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The position of the ligands in the spectrochemical series

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How can colours of transition metal complexes be explained

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In terms of d-d interactions. The effects of d-d transitions can be studied using ultraviolet and visible absorption spectroscopy

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When is light absorbed

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When electrons in a lower energy d orbital are promoted to a d orbital of higher energy

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What does ultraviolet and visible absorption spectroscopy involve

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Transitions between electronic energy levels in atoms and molecules where the energy difference corresponds to the ultraviolet and visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum

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What does an ultraviolet/visible spectrometer

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Measures the intensity of radiation transmitted through the sample and compares this with the intensity of incident radiation

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What can transition metals or their compounds act as

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Act as catalysts in many chemical reactions

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What can catalysts be

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Homogeneous- in the same state as the reactants
Heterogeneous-in different state to the reactants

39
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What causes intermediate complexes to form

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It’s believed that the presence of unpaired d electrons or unfilled d orbitals allows intermediate complexes to form, providing reaction pathways of lower energy compared to the uncatalyst reaction

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Why are simple ions and complex ions of transition metals often coloured

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Because they absorb certain parts of the visible spectrum

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What happen if red, blue and all the colours are abosrbed by an ion or complex ion from the visible spectrum

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Red light is absorbed, the colours transmitted are blue green which is seen as cyan or green/blue
Blue light is abosbred, the colours transmitted are red and green which is Ennis as yellow
All he colours absorbed the complex or ion will appear black

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What does degenerate mean

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Have the same energy

43
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What are d orbitals when the transition metal is not bonded to anything else

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There are five d orbitals and they are all degenerate

44
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When a ligand approaches a d orbitals that are all degenerate what happens in transition metals

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The lone pair of ligands repels the d orbitals. Th d subshell is split into two distinct sets of orbitals that have a difference in energy between them

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The size of the energy gap(/\E) between two sets of d orbitals varies with

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The transition metal ion
The oxidation state of transition metal
The type of ligand

46
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What does energy in the visible region of the spectrum cause

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D electrons transitions between lower energy orbitals and d orbitals of higher energy

47
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What determines the colour produced by the compound or complex

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Different ligands bonded to the central transition metal ion cause different splits in the d orbitals. The size of this split determines it

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What is given by the spectrochemical series

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The ability of ligands to cause splitting is given by the spectrochemical series

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What happens the greater the splitting in d orbitals

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The more energy is needed to promote an electron from the lower group of d orbitals to the higher ones

50
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What happens when the greater the energy of light absorbed

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The shorter the wavelengths, as the splitting increases the light absorbed shifts away from the red end of the spectrum towards orange yellow and so on

51
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Describe concentration of transition metals

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The higher the concentration of ions the greater the absorbance

52
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What does the abosorption of ultraviolet or visible radiation correspond to

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Outer electrons becoming excited

53
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What are complexes containing weak field ligands do

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More likely to absorb visible region (400-700 nm)

54
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What can a colorimetry be used for

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To determine the concentration of ions

55
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When will a compound be colourless

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If the energy absorbed is in the ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum, the compound will be colourless so ultraviolet spectroscopy is used

56
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When does the d-d interaction tend to occur in the ultraviolet region(200-400)

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When the ligands surrounding the transition metal ion are strong field ligands

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What cannot have d-d interactions

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If the transition metal ion as no d electrons or ions that have a complete d subshell. D-d interactions only occur in transition metals in a compound that as 1-9 d electrons

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Whats a catalyst

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Speeds up chemical reactions by providing an alternative reaction pathway of lower activation energy

59
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Why can transition metal form a variable number of bonds

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Because of the availability of unoccupied or partially occupied d orbitals

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Why can transition metals act as homogeneous catalysts

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There ability to have a variety of oxidation states enables them to act as catalysts. The transition metal returns to its original oxidation state once catalyst reaction is performed

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What are d block transition metals

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Metals with an incomplete d subshell in at least one of their ions

62
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What can transition metals have in its compounds

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Different oxidation numbers

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Whats the spectrochemical series

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When ligands are placed in an order of their ability to split d orbitals

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Describe heterogeneous catalysts

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Explained in terms of the formation of activated complexes and the absorption of reactive molecules onto active sites. The presence of unpaired d electrons or unfilled d orbitals is though to allow activated complexes to form. This an provide reaction pathways with lower activation energies compared to uncatalsed reactions

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