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And remember that Lewis Acids/Bases are always Bronsted Acids/Bases but not the other way around.

Amina Durrani 3G

How do you tell if a compound is a bronsted acid or a bronsted base? For example NH3?

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How do you know that in 9d, edta is hexadentate?

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What exactly does kA mean? I know its the equilibrium value, but when you calculate it, do you say that it is the amount of acid dissociated?

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I'm a little confused about this. In my notes I wrote that a species that accepts an electron pair is a lewis acid, but if it accepts an electron, doesn't it get more negative, or basic? Wouldn't a lewis acid be a species that accepts an H+?

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What's the significance of polydentates? Do ligands want to bind at multiple sites, or is there no correlation between that? Also, how do chelating ligands bind cations tightly?

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How exactly do you make a coordination compound?

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In lecture, Lavelle said that cisplatin forms a coordination compound with DNA (Pt bonds with N in NH3) and this stops cell division (replication inhibition, transportation inhibition, cell cycle arrest, dna repair, and cell death).

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What is the significance of octahedral complexes, tetrahedral complexes, an square-planar complexes? Do we need to know these for naming?

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How do you know when atoms will be in the same plane? And do double or triple bonds determine if atoms will be in the same plane since a molecule can't bend if it has double or triple bonds?

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If something is double bonded, then the sigma bond has sp^(number of electron density) hybridization, and the pi bond has p hybridization (ex 2p, with 2 being the row number), since in pi bonds, p orbitals are overlapping.

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I think knowing when something is a bronsted acid/base versus when its a lewis acid/base is also important.

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When naming a coordination compound, write the ligands in alphabetical order and then write the metal (write ion if charged).

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What’s the difference between instantaneous dipole and induced dipole????

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Can you assume a molecule is polar if it's non symmetrical?

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Why is part d polar? Do lone pairs cause dipole moments?

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Why do molecules with lone pairs will have angles slightly less than what their shape would be without lone pairs?

Amina Durrani 3G

In my notes I wrote that the bond angles of O-S-O are 106 degrees not 109.5 degrees, but why is this?

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Is Hydrogen Bonding only present in molecules with N,O,F atoms or are there other atoms that also hydrogen bond?

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How are electron distortion and polarizability of that electron related? Is distortion and changing molar mass the same?

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Can someone explain what the equation for interaction potential energy is and it’s significance?

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Basically all intermolecular interactions, so post midterm until next Monday’s lecture (we have to know pi and sigma bonds from that lecture).

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Yes because high electronegative atoms are stronger enough to attract H

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I think surface area since increased surface area means increased noncovalent interactions between molecules which means that it will take more energy/heat to break them apart thus increasing boiling point.

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The more electronegative atom should have a negative charge if the other atom’s charge is 0, but it should have a 0 charge if the other atom’s charge is positive.

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What’s the difference between Dipole-Dipole and London Forces and what’s an example of each?

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The lowest energy structure would have the most electronegative N in the middle (-1 FC) and the two other N’s (+1 FC) on either side.

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How exactly do expanded valence shells work, since the octet rule says that atoms share electrons until a noble gas configuration is reached?

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Two things to pay attention to are formal charge and octets. Most elements want to have a full shell of valence electrons, so try to make sure that they all have 8 electrons around them. Next is to pay attention to the formal charge. If by forming a double bond, the formal charge is closer to 0, th...

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How do you know if the lowest energy can be achieved by ion formation or if it can be achieved by sharing electrons? Like how do you know when you should write Na+Cl- or just NaCl?

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What does resonance hybrids mean? And what’s an example of resonance versus resonance hybrid?

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Can someone explain what the Copper and Chromium exceptions are for electron configuration?

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Why don't non metals form cations?

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Thank you!

Amina Durrani 3G

Jessica Li 1F wrote:I think there's only one midterm (on Nov. 6), and that one will be cumulative all the way from Test 1.

So is the review of chemical principles (all the Test 1 stuff) going to be on the midterm? Or everything after that?

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For part b of this problem, the electron configuration for Mn is [Ar] 4s^2 3d^5 right? The question is asking from which orbital will an electron be removed to form a +1 ion, and the correct answer is from the 4s orbital but can someone explain why its from this orbital and not 3d^5?

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So like what would be an example?

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Wait, why can you only use a noble gas again? I’m little confused.

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What does ml describe? I know that n’s the shell, and l is the sub shell that describes shape, but what does ml describe then?

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Is the third quantum number m or ml ? I remember learning the other two were n and l but I couldn’t tell from the slides if the third was m or ml

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What does it mean by the square of the wave function represents the probability of finding an electron?

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I know that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle tells us that there is a physical limit to the minimum size that atoms can exist, but is there a maximum size too? If so how could we calculate that?

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To calculate the energy of a photon use E=hv and to match the kind of radiation to the appropriate event compare the wavelength to the chart we viewed in class which gave the type of radiation and it’s corresponding wavelength.

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From what I understood in lecture, increasing light intensity increases the number of photons which results in more ejected electrons (if the energy per photon is greater or equal to the energy needed to remove an electron).

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I know that the De Broglie Equation states that any moving particle with momentum, p, has wavelike properties with wavelength, lambda, but what exactly are the wavelike properties?

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In lecture we talked about how light (waves) in general show diffraction patterns and then we used the example of and x-ray passing through a crystal, can someone clarify how this example shows diffraction patterns?

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Yes, because Hydrogen only has one electron, but if there are multiple electrons then the electrons repel each other and you can’t calculate the ground-state energy of that atom if the electrons are already repelling each other.

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In constructive interference the crests or troughs of the waves interfere with the other meaning that their amplitudes are added to get the total amplitude of the wave, however in destructive interference the crests or troughs of the waves interfere with each other meaning that the amplitudes are su...

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I remember learning in HS that Carbon goes first, then Hydrogen, and then all other elements but in alphabetical order. Hope this helps (:

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Amplitude is a measure of length or distance similar to wavelength, but has no relation to frequency! I think it’s just a quantity that can be measured or solved for

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Yes. Your answer should have the same number of sig figs as the value given in the question with the smallest amount of sig figs!

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Two chemists walk into a bar.
One says, “I’ll have an ‎H2O.” The other says, “I’ll have an ‎H2O, too.” The second chemist dies.

He He He (Helium Helium Helium)

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