Unit 3: Chemical bonding (till page 31) Flashcards
Valence shell is
the outermost shell
Valence electrons
outermost electrons
-important because they are involved in chemical reactions
Lewis Dot Structures
- Show only the valence elections, ignoring the inner electrons because they are not involved in a chemical reaction.
–> Making them more convenient & simpler than Bohr-Rutherford diagrams
In reality the octet rule is only true for…
the first 20 elements
Reactivity of Elements
- Determined by # of valence electrons
–> All atoms are stable when they have a full valence shell –> called stable octet. The closer the element is to having a stable octet, the more reactive it is. (alkali metals & halogens are most reactive)
–> An atom will lose, gain, or share electrons to get a stable octet (similar to the nearest noble gas)
The main group metal atoms will lose ______ of their valence electrons
all
Type of atoms involved & type of chemical bond in ionic compounds
- Metals & non-metals
- ionic bond
Type of atoms involved & type of chemical bond in molecular compounds
- non-metals
- molecular bond (polar and non-polar)
Type of atoms involved & type of chemical bond in metallic compounds
- Metals
- metallic bond
What is an ionic bond?
The electrostatic (the forces that electric charges exert on each other) attraction between ions of opposite charges
What happens when we combine a metal & a non-metal together?
- Metals have low IE (ionization energy–> the energy to remove an electron) and low EN (electronegativity –> ability to attract shared electrons in a chemical bond)
- Non-metals have high IE & EN
- The metal’s electrons will pulled closer to the non-metal’s nucleus than its own due to great EN gap (usually △EN > 1.7) –> therefore it will feel a greater attraction from non-metal nucleus than its own
- As a result, metal loses its valence electrons –> positively charged (cation) & non-metal gains electrons –> negatively charged (anion)
How to calculate EN
Look at Electronegativity chart at back of periodic table
- find EN of elements in equation
- subtract smaller number from bigger
- Number of each atom doesn’t matter –> Ex. if you have 2 hydrogen atoms in the formula unit, do not multiply 2.1 by 2.
Naming Binary Ionic Compound
Metal + Non-Metal (ending with ide)
Writing Formula for Ionic Compounds
Criss Cross Method (be sure to simplify)
Binary ionic compound & Polyatomic Ionic Compounds
Binary: contains only 2 elements
Polyatomic: contains 3 or more elements