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Chapter 1
Electronic Structure and Bonding Acids and Bases
Irene Lee Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 2004, Prentice Hall
Organic Chemistry
Organic compounds are compounds containing carbon Carbon neither readily gives up nor readily accepts electrons
Carbon shares electrons with other carbon atoms as well as with several different kinds of atoms
The atomic orbital closer to the nucleus has the lowest energy
Degenerate orbitals have the same energy
Table 1.1
The Aufbau principle: electrons occupy the orbitals with the lowest energy first
The Pauli exclusion principle: only two electrons can occupy one atomic orbital and the two electrons have opposite spin
Hunds rule: electrons will occupy empty degenerated orbitals before pairing up in the same orbital
Ionic compounds are formed when an electropositive element transfers electron(s) to an electronegative element
Covalent Compounds
Equal sharing of electrons: nonpolar covalent bond (e.g., H2) Sharing of electrons between atoms of different electronegativities: polar covalent bond (e.g., HF)
A Dipole
A polar bond has a negative end and a positive end
Lewis Structure
Formal charge = number of valence electrons (number of lone pair electrons +1/2 number of bonding electrons)
two bonds
three bonds
four bonds
The s Orbitals
The p Orbitals
Molecular Orbitals
An sp-Hybridized Carbon
Bonding in Water
Summary
A p bond is weaker than a s bond The greater the electron density in the region of orbital overlap, the stronger is the bond The more s character, the shorter and stronger is the bond The more s character, the larger is the bond angle
Strong reacts to give weak The weaker the base, the stronger is its conjugate acid
An Acid/Base Equilibrium
H2O + HA H3O+ + A-
pK a
HA pH log
A compound will exist primarily in its acidic form at a pH < its pKa
A compound will exist primarily in its basic form at a pH > its pKa
A buffer solution maintains a nearly constant pH upon addition of small amount of acid or base
When atoms are very different in size, the stronger acid will have its proton attached to the largest atom
When atoms are similar in size, the stronger acid will have its proton attached to the more electronegative atom
The delocalized electrons in acetic acid are shared by more than two atoms, thereby stabilizing the conjugated base
O CH3CO-
O CH3CO-