Polarity and Bonds

Today's lesson was over bond polarity and different types of bonds. Polarity occurs when electrons aren't shared equally between two atoms. When the electrons are shared unequally, one electron has a stronger pull on the bond as a result of differing electronegativities. Between the electrons in an atom, one of three different types of bonds forms: nonpolar covalent, polar covalent, or ionic. Nonpolar covalent occurs when the two electrons are shared equally between the atoms. Polar covalent is the result of unequally shared electrons that cause a partial charge on the atoms. Lastly, ionic bonds are formed when a complete transfer of electrons occurs giving full charges on the resulting ions.



Polarity practice
Polarity

Shape of Molecules

The valence shell electron pair repulsion theory is what is used in order to predict the shape of a molecule. The number of lone pairs and bonded entities present in a molecule will determine it's shape. In particular, we focused on five of the molecular shapes: linear, bent, tetrahedral, trigonal planar, and triganol pyrimidal. A linear molecule has a central atom, consisting of no lone pairs, with two bonded entities. Bent molecules also have two bonded entities but the central atom has two lone pairs. A tetrahedral shaped molecules consists of a central atom with four bonded entities. A molecule without lone pairs on the central atom and three bonded entities is trigonal planar. Lastly, a molecule that is trigonal pyrimidal contains a central atom with two lone pairs and three bonded entities.



We also went over resonance in this lecture. Resonance occurs when a molecule has multiple bonds that can be moved throughout the molecule with the same resulting charges. The picture below shows resonance occurring in an NO3 molecule. Resonance equalizes both the bond strength and the bond length throughout the molecule.



Molecular Shapes Practice
resonance practice

Lewis Dot Structures

In today's lecture we learned about Lewis Dot Concept that help to show the chemical bonding occurring within a molecule. In order to make a Lewis Dot Concept, a dot must be placed around the element to represent each electron in its valence shell. The dots must be placed going clockwise and only pairing up once four electrons has been exceeded.






One of the rules we learned regarding electrons in the valence shell was the octet rule. The octet rule states that, with a few exceptions, an atom can not have more than eight electrons in it's outer shell. An example of an exception is beryllium. Beryllium, despite the predicted four valence electron, requires six valence electrons in order to be stable.

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Lewis Dot Structures