AS - Level Chemistry (6 - Shapes of Molecules and Intermolecular Forces) Mapa Mental sobre 6.2 Electronegativity and Polarity, criado por Bee Brittain em 15-04-2016.
Electronegativity is the ability of an atom to attract the bonding electrons in a covalent bond
The bonded electron pair is shared
evenly between to atoms unless...
... the nuclear charges are different
... the atoms may be different size
... the shared pair of electrons may be closer to
one nucleus than the other
If these conditions are met, the shared pair of electrons in the
covalent bond may now experience more attraction from one of
the bonded atoms than the other
Ionic or Covalent?
If the electronegativity difference is large, one bonded atom will have a much
greater attraction for the shared pair than the other bonded atom.
The more electronegative the atom will have gained control of the
electrons and the bond will now be ionic rather than covalent
Bond Polarity
Non-polar bonds
Bonded electron pair shared equally
Bonded atoms will be the same or the bonded
atoms have the same/similar electronegativity
Pure Covalent Bond
Polar Bonds
Bonded pair shared unequally
A bond will be polar when the bonded
atoms are different, or have a large
difference in electronegativity
Polar Covalent Bond
A H-Cl bond is polarised as Cl atom is more electronegative than H
Due to it being polar, H has a slightly positive charge, where as Cl has a slightly
negative charge (as it is the more electronegative one)
This separation of opposite charges is called a DIPOLE
A dipole in a polar covalent bond does not change and is called a permanent dipole to distinguish it from an induced dipole
Anotações:
induced dipoles will be on my 6.3 Intermolecular Forces mind map
Polar Molecules
Depending on the shape of the molecule, the dipoles may reinforce one another to produce a larger dipole over the whole
molecule, or cancel out if the dipoles act in opposite directions
A water, H2O molecule is polar
The two O-H bonds each have a permanent dipole
The two dipoles act in different directions but do not exactly oppose one another
Overall the oxygen end of the molecule
has a slightly negative charge and the
hydrogen end of the molecule has a
slightly positive charge
A carbon dioxide, CO2 molecule is non-polar
The two C=O bonds
each have a permanent
dipole
The two dipoles act in opposite directions and exactly oppose each other