Expanded Octet Rules
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Expanded Octet Rules
At what point in the periodic table do expanded octets become a possibility and why?
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Re: Expanded Octet Rules
It begins with the non-metals in the third period or below, they are able to do this because they have empty d subshells that can house the extra electrons.
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Re: Expanded Octet Rules
Expanded octets become a possibility at 3p. It becomes a possibility bc 3d is right above it. This sub shell can hold more electrons which is why atoms like P, S, and Cl can hold an expanded octet.
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Re: Expanded Octet Rules
Gurshaan Nagra 2F wrote:It begins with the non-metals in the third period or below, they are able to do this because they have empty d subshells that can house the extra electrons.
Based off of what we learned with quantum numbers and electron shells & subshells, I always thought 3p came before 3d so how is this possible?
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Re: Expanded Octet Rules
For the third row of the periodic table, we don't put any d-orbital electrons in their ground state configurations as they don't have any in the d orbital. However, since their energy level is 3 (n=3), they are able to have more electrons. They have a whole new shell rather than be just n=2, so there's space to house more electrons. As mentioned above, the quantum numbers show how this is possible.
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Re: Expanded Octet Rules
When given a molecule with an atom in it with the possibility for an expanded octet and asked to draw the Lewis structure, is there any intuitive trick to determine if an expanded octet is actually needed other than guess and check? For example, question 3.63 part a asks you to draw the Lewis Structure of the molecule SF6, and the only way that I figured out that I would need to draw it with more than 8 electrons around S was through attempting to draw it with a regular octet around each atom only to find that the valence electrons did not add up to 48 as they should for this molecule.
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Re: Expanded Octet Rules
Cindy Nguyen 1L wrote:For the third row of the periodic table, we don't put any d-orbital electrons in their ground state configurations as they don't have any in the d orbital. However, since their energy level is 3 (n=3), they are able to have more electrons. They have a whole new shell rather than be just n=2, so there's space to house more electrons. As mentioned above, the quantum numbers show how this is possible.
Since these atoms are able to house more electrons due to the availability of the 3d shell is it safe to assume that they can only hold extra electrons up to the point where the 3d orbital becomes full?
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Re: Expanded Octet Rules
Chiara Berruto 1K wrote:Cindy Nguyen 1L wrote:For the third row of the periodic table, we don't put any d-orbital electrons in their ground state configurations as they don't have any in the d orbital. However, since their energy level is 3 (n=3), they are able to have more electrons. They have a whole new shell rather than be just n=2, so there's space to house more electrons. As mentioned above, the quantum numbers show how this is possible.
Since these atoms are able to house more electrons due to the availability of the 3d shell is it safe to assume that they can only hold extra electrons up to the point where the 3d orbital becomes full?
Technically yes. Although when we draw Lewis structures for them, it's not like they need the whole d-orbital to be filled. We've seen examples of compounds that use their expanded octets but there are only a few extra electrons (not 10).
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