Chapter 7
Chapter 7
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7.1 Electromagnetic Radiation 7.2 The Nature of Matter
7.3 The Atomic Spectrum of Hydrogen 7.4 The Bohr Model
7.5 The Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom 7.6Quantum Numbers
7.7Orbital Shapes and Energies
7.8Electron Spin and the Pauli Principle 7.9Polyelectronic Atoms
7.10The History of the Periodic Table
7.11The Aufbau Principle and the Periodic Table 7.12Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
Chapter 7
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• Objective: Students will be able to answer questions about electromagnetic radiation.
Section 7.1
Electromagnetic Radiation
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Section 7.1
Electromagnetic Radiation
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Questions to Consider
• Why do we get colors?
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Electromagnetic Radiation
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Electromagnetic radiation
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Electromagnetic Radiation
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Three characteristics:
• wavelength ( ) – distance between two peaks or troughs in a wave.
• frequency ( ) – number of waves (cycles) per second that pass a given point in space
• speed (c) – speed of light (2.9979×108 m/s)
=
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Electromagnetic Radiation
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Electromagnetic Radiation
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Classification of Electromagnetic Radiation (see p. 276)Lower energy
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Electromagnetic Radiation
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Ex. 1: Microwave ovens use a frequency of 2.45 GHz
(2.45 x 109 cycles/s). What is the wavelength of this
radiation?
• Answer:
= c = 2.9979 x 108 m______________
s 2.45 x 109 s-1
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=
c
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The Nature of Matter
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Section 7.2
The Nature of Matter
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• Max Planck (1858-1947) discovered that energy
can be gained or lost only in integer multiples of h:
E = nh
• where n is an integer (1, 2, 3 …)
• h is Planck’s constant = 6.626 x 10-34 Js
= frequency
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The Nature of Matter
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• A system can transfer energy only in whole quanta (or photons or “packets”).
• Energy seems to have particulate properties too.
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The Nature of Matter
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• Electromagnetic radiation is a stream of “particles” called photons.
photon = =
hc
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Electromagnetic Radiation
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Ex. 2: Find the energy of 1 mole of x-ray photons ( = 2.36 nm).
• Answer: E = h or E = hc
• E = hc = 6.626 x 10-34 J s 2.9979 x 108 m 6.022 x 1023
s 2.36 x 10-9 m mol
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Section 7.2
The Nature of Matter
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The Photoelectric Effect
• Einstein, early 20th century
• Light strikes a metal surface; e-s are
ejected; current flows.
• A minimum frequency of light is needed
for this effect.
• Above that minimum, greater light
intensity leads to higher current (more e-s
ejected).
• So light has particle-like properties!
• Think of light as a high energy photon. If
its energy is high enough, it collides with
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The Nature of Matter
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• Energy and mass can be interconverted: E = mc2
• Dual nature of light:
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The Nature of Matter
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DeBroglie equation: = h/mv
• Ex: Find the deBroglie wavelength for an electron (m = 9.110 x 10-31 kg) traveling 1% the speed of
light.
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The Nature of Matter
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DeBroglie equation: = h/mv
• Ex: Find the deBroglie wavelength for an
electron (m = 9.110 x 10-31 kg) traveling 1% the
speed of light.
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= h = 6.626 x 10-34 kg m2 s
mv s 9.110 x 10-31 kg 2.9979 x 106 m
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= 2.425 x 10-10 m
(similar to x-rays)
Answer: = h mv
Note: Unit was J•s, now it’s kg m2/s
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The Nature of Matter
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Section 7.3
The Atomic Spectrum of Hydrogen
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• Continuous spectrum (when white light is passed through a prism) contains all the wavelengths of visible light
• Hydrogen emission spectrum (p. 284) has only a
few lines, at distinct wavelengths: 410 nm, 434 nm, 656 nm. Why?
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The Atomic Spectrum of Hydrogen
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• This shows that only certain
energies are allowed for the e- in the
H atom.
• Bohr (1885 – 1962) developed the
quantum model for H, the idea that the energy of the e- in the H atom is
“quantized.” (i.e. The e- moves only
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The Atomic Spectrum of Hydrogen
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•Why is it significant that the color emitted from the hydrogen emission spectrum is not white?
•How does the emission spectrum support the
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The Bohr Model
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• Bohr’s model gave H atom energy levels consistent with the H emission spectrum.
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The Bohr Model
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a) An energy-level diagram for electron transitions
b) An orbit-transition diagram
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The Bohr Model
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The Bohr Model
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• The Bohr model leads to:
• For a single e- transition from one energy level to
another:
ΔE = change in energy of the atom (energy of the emitted photon)
nfinal = integer; final energy level ninitial = integer; initial energy level … and = hc/E
18
2 2
final initial
1
1
= 2.178 10 J
E
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levels of the H atom and proposes only certain allowed circular orbits for the e-.
• As the e- becomes more tightly bound, its energy
becomes more negative relative to the zero-energy reference state (free electron). As the
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Note:
• Bohr’s model is incorrect. This model only works for H.
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The Bohr Model
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Ex: Find the amount of energy (and the wavelength of light) needed to bump the H electron from n = 2 to n = 4.
18
2 2
final initial
1
1
= 2.178 10 J
E
n
n
We set nfinal = 4; ninitial = 2.
E = +4.084 x 10-19 J
18
2 2
final initial
1
1
= 2.178 10 J
E
n
n
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The Bohr Model
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Ex: Find the amount of energy (and the wavelength of light) needed to bump the H electron from n = 2 to n = 4.
= hc =
E
= 4.864 x 10-7 m = 486 nm (cyan part of visible
spectrum)
6.626 x 10-34 Js 2.9979 x 108 m
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The Bohr Model
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Exercise
What color of light is emitted when an
excited electron in the hydrogen atom falls from:
a) n = 5 to n = 2 b) n = 4 to n = 2 c) n = 3 to n = 2
Which transition results in the
longest wavelength of light?
blue, λ = 434 nm
green, λ = 486 nm
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The Bohr Model
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Many elements give off characteristic light which can help identify them.
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The Bohr Model
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Section 7.5
The Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom
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Objective: Students will be able to answer
questions about the quantum mechanical model of the atom (although quantum numbers
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The Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom
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• The Bohr model was unsatisfactory because: • e-s do not follow a circular orbit
• did not work for elements past hydrogen
• Schrodinger (1887 – 1961) treated the e- as a
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The Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom
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has no physical meaning , but 2 relates to e
-probability within an orbital.
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Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved 38 • Heisenberg uncertainty principle:
You can’t know both the position and
momentum of a particle at the same time.
Δx = uncertainty in a particle’s position
Δ(mν) = uncertainty in a particle’s momentum h = Planck’s constant
m
4
h
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The Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom
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The Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom
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Physical meaning of a wave function
• The square of the function indicates the probability of finding an electron near a particular point in space.
• Probability distribution – intensity of color is
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Orbitals
• region in space where e-s are found
• difficult to define precisely
• a wave function
• a 3-D electron density map of a particular size
and shape
• Shapes are defined by a boundary that encloses
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The Quantum Mechanical Model of the Atom
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Section 7.6
Quantum Numbers
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•
Principal quantum number (
n = 1, 2, 3…
) –
energy level; orbital size and energy.
•
Angular momentum quantum number (
l
=
0,1, … n-1
) – sublevel; orbital shape
•
Magnetic quantum number (
m
l= -
l
, … 0, …
+
l
) – orbital orientation in space relative to
the other orbitals in the atom.
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n l Orbital
designation
ml Number
of
orbitals
shapes
1 0 1s 0 1
2 0 2s 0 1
1 2p -1, 0, +1 3
3 0 3s 0 1
1 3p -1, 0, +1 3
2 3d -2 … +2 5
4 0 4s 0 1
1 4p -1, 0, +1 3
2 4d -2 … +2 5
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Quantum Numbers
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Section 7.6
Quantum Numbers
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Exercise
For principal quantum level n = 3, determine the number of allowed sublevels (different
values of l), and give the designation of each.
# of allowed sublevels = 3
l
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Exercise
For l = 2, determine the magnetic quantum numbers (ml) and the number of orbitals.
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Orbital Shapes and Energies
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Orbital Shapes and Energies
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Orbital Shapes and Energies
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4f orbitals
Who wants to be in
charge of making a
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Orbital Shapes and Energies
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Do these sets of quantum numbers exist? Why or why not?
(a) n = 2, l = 0, ml = 1, ms = + ½
(b) n = 3, l = 3, ml = -3, ms = - ½
(c) n = 2, l = 0, ml = 0, ms = + ½
(d) n = 3, l = -1, ml = -1, ms = - ½
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Orbital Shapes and Energies
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Section 7.8
Electron Spin and the Pauli Principle
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• Objectives: Students will understand and apply the Pauli exclusion principle.
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Electron Spin and the Pauli Principle
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• Remember that electron spin quantum number (ms) – can be +½ or -½.
• Pauli exclusion principle - in a given atom, no two electrons can have the same set of four quantum numbers.
• An orbital can hold only two electrons, and
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Polyelectronic Atoms
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Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved 59 • Atoms with more than one electron.
• Electron correlation problem:
Since the electron pathways are unknown, the electron repulsions cannot be calculated
exactly.
• When electrons in a polyelectronic atom are
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Polyelectronic Atoms
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Hydrogen vs. polyelectronic atom
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1s
2s 2p
3s 3p 3d
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1s
2s 2p
3s 3p
3d
All orbitals of the same value of n are
degenerate (i.e. have the same energy).
Due to penetration (p. 299),
s e-s can be closer to the
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• A 2s electron penetrates to the nucleus more than one in the 2p orbital.
• This causes an electron in a 2s orbital to be attracted to the nucleus more strongly than an electron in a 2p orbital.
• Thus, the 2s orbital is lower in energy than
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Polyelectronic Atoms
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Polyelectronic Atoms
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Polyelectronic Atoms
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Comparing the radial probability
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The History of the Periodic Table
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• Newlands proposed octaves.
•
Mendeleev
is given credit for our current periodic table…• … which represents the patterns in the
chemical properties of the elements.
• Mendeleev predicted existence of Ge and
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The History of the Periodic Table
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How many orbitals exist for each set of quantum numbers?
a. n = 2, l = 2 b. n = 4, l = 3
c. n = 3, l = 2, ml = -1 d. n = 2, ml = +1
e. n = 5, l = 3
a. 0 b. 7
c. 1 d. 1
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The History of the Periodic Table
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End of lesson.
Section 7.1
Electromagnetic Radiation
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EMR Quiz 2017
Random helpful equations:
E = hc/ = h/mv h = 6.626 x 10-34 J·s
c = 2.9979 x 108 m/s
E = -2.178 x 10-18 J (1/n
final2 – 1/ninitial2)
mass of e- = 9.109 x 10-28 g
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The Aufbau Principle and the Periodic Table
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Objective:
• Students will be able to draw orbital diagrams and write electron configurations for any
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Aufbau principle
• As protons are added one by one to the
nucleus to build up the elements, electrons are similarly added to hydrogen–like orbitals.
1s 2s 2p
• H • He
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Hund’s rule
• The lowest energy configuration for an atom is the one having the
maximum number of unpaired electrons allowed by the Pauli principle in a particular set of
degenerate (same energy) orbitals.
• Or: Electrons “prefer” to be in
separate orbitals of equal energy
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1s 2s 2p
• Li • … • C • …
1s 2s 2p 3s 3p
• P
Orbital diagrams
Done. Notice the total number of arrows = ___? = the atomic number.
… due to
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Electron configurations
• An oxygen atom has two electrons in the 1s sublevel, two electrons in the 2s sublevel, and four electrons in the 2p sublevel.
• We write:
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Orbital diagram
• shows how many e-s an atom has in each of
its occupied orbitals.
O: 1s22s22p4
O: 1s 2s 2p
Electron configuration
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P: 1s22s22p63s23p3
or: [Ne] 3s23p3
core valence
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Ch. 7.2 EMR Quiz
1. What is the characteristic wavelength (in nm) of an electron with a velocity of 4.97 x 106 m/s?
electron mass = 9.11 x 10-28 g E = hc/
E = -2.178 x 10-18 J (1/n
final2 – 1/ninitial2)
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Ch. 7.2 EMR Quiz
1. Calculate the energy in kJ that corresponds to the transition of 1.00 mole of hydrogen e-s from the
n = 1 to the n = 4 state. Is light absorbed or emitted?
electron mass = 9.11 x 10-28 g E = hc/
E = -2.178 x 10-18 J (1/n
final2 – 1/ninitial2)
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• the electrons in the outermost principal quantum level of an atom.
Ne: 1s22s22p6 (valence electrons = 8)
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The orbitals being filled for elements in various parts of the periodic table
s
d
f
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Note 1 – 18 numbering system.
Note Cr, Cu exceptions – apparent stability of filled and half-filled sublevels (see middle of p. 305).
Try:
orbital diagram for K
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Determine the expected electron configurations for each of the following.
a) S
1s22s22p63s23p4 or [Ne]3s23p4
b) Ba
[Xe]6s2
c) Eu
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Periodic trends
• Ionization energy
• Electron affinity (tomorrow)
• Atomic radius
Objective: Students will be able to explain periodic table trends in atomic radius and ionization
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Ionization energy
• Energy required to remove an electron from a gaseous atom or ion.
X(g) → X+(g) + e–
Mg → Mg+ + e– I
1 = 735 kJ/mol (1st IE)
Mg+ → Mg2+ + e– I
2 = 1445 kJ/mol (2nd IE)
Mg2+ → Mg3+ + e– I
3 = 7730 kJ/mol *(3rd IE)
*Core electrons are bound much more tightly
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Ionization energy
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IE generally increases to the right due to … IE g en er al ly i n cr e as es u p w ar d d u e to …
greater nuclear charge
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Ionization energy
Look at IE1 values on Table 7.5 (p. 310). Explain the trend.
•(Greater nuclear charge greater IE.)
Look at IE1 values on Table 7.6 (p. 310). Explain the trend.
•(More shielding moving down the P.T. lower IE)
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Concept check
Explain why the graph of ionization energy
versus atomic number (across a period) is not linear.
electron repulsions
Where are the exceptions?
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Why the decrease
from N to O? … because O has
more e-/e
-repulsion…
… so it’s easier to remove the
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Concept check
Which atom would require more energy to remove an electron? Why?
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Concept check
Which atom would require more energy to remove an electron? Why?
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Concept check
Which has the larger second ionization energy? Why?
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Atomic radius (defined on p. 313)
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decreases due to…
In c re as es d u e t o …
greater nuclear charge
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Concept check
Which is the larger atom? Why?
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Exercise
Arrange the elements oxygen, fluorine, and sulfur according to increasing:
Ionization energy
S, O, F
Atomic size (radius)
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Exercise
Which is largest? Why? a. Al, Ga, In
b. P, S, Cl c. F+, F,
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End of lesson
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Periodic Trends in Atomic Properties
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Objective
• Students will understand the pattern of electron affinity on the periodic table.
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Electron affinity
• energy change associated with the addition of an electron to a gaseous atom.
X(g) + e– → X–(g) H = - ...
generally negative because nonmetal atoms do attract an extra e-.
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Electron affinity
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EA
generally increases to the rightdue to greater nuclear charge
| E
A
|
gen
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The periodic table – Final thoughts
1. The number and type of valence electrons primarily determine chemical properties.
2. Electron configuration relates to position on the periodic table.
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The Properties of a Group: The Alkali Metals
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The periodic table – Final thoughts
4. Basic division of the elements is into metals and nonmetals.
metals nonmetals
low IE high IE; most
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Metals Versus Nonmetals
Most
activ
e meta ls
Most
activ
e non
meta ls
(not
the n
oble
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The alkali metals (see p. 316)
• Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, and Fr
Most chemically reactive of the metals
React with nonmetals to form ionic solids
All have a similar e- configuration (… ns1)
Going down group:
Ionization energy decreases
Atomic radius increases
Density increases
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The Properties of a Group: The Alkali Metals
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End of lesson
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The Properties of a Group: The Alkali Metals
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