Saturday, May 26, 2012

Chemical Bonding

Electrostatic Force

-Force existing as a result of the attraction or repulsion between two charged particles.

All bonding is based on the electrostatic relationship.
1) Opposite charge attract each other.
2) Like charges repel each other.
3) The greater the distance between two charged particles, the smaller the attractive force             existing between them.
4) The greater the charge on the particles, the greater the force of attraction between them.
   - This force operates equally in all directions meaning that positively - charged particles attract negatively - charged particles every way.

Ionic Bond


- An ionic bond is formed by the attraction of a positive ion to a negative ion and is formed when an electron from one atom is transferred to another atom, so as to create on positive and one negative ion.

Polar and Non Polar Covalent Bond

polar Covalent Bond

- A bond between 2 nonmetal atoms that have different electronegativities and therefore have unequal sharing of the bonding electron pair
- Example: In H-Cl, the electronegativity of the Cl atom is 3.0, while that of the H atom is 2.1
- The result is a bond where the electron pair is displaced toward the more electronegative atom. This atom then obtains a partial-negative charge while the less electronegative atom has a partial-positive charge.This separation of charge or bond dipole can be illustrated using an arrow with the arrowhead directed toward the more electronegative atom.

The Greek letter delta indicates "partially".

Non-polar Covalent Bond

- A bond between 2 nonmetal atoms that have the same electronegativity and therefore have equal sharing of the bonding electron pair
- Example: In H-H each H atom has an electronegativity value of 2.1, therefore the covalent bond between them is considered nonpolar
 

Bohr, Lewis and Electron Dot Diagrams




No comments:

Post a Comment