Atomic orbitals hybridization

In the 1930s a theoretical treatment of the covalent bond was developed by, among others, Linus Pauling (1901-1994), then at the California Institute of Technology. The atomic orbital or valence bond model won him the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1954. Eight years later, Pauling won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to stop nuclear testing. 

According to this model, a covalent bond consists of a pair of electrons of opposed spin within an orbital. For example, a hydrogen atom forms a covalent bond by accepting an electron from another atom to complete its Is orbital. Using orbital diagrams, we could write 

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The second electron, shown in blue, is contributed by another atom. This could be another H atom in H2l an F atom in HF, a C atom in CH4, and so on. 

This simple model is readily extended to other atoms. The fluorine atom (electron configuration lsz2s22p5) has a half-filled p orbital  

By accepting an electron from another atom, F can complete this 2p orbital  

According to this model, it would seem that for an atom to form a covalent bond, it must have an unpaired electron. Indeed, the number of bonds formed by an atom should be determined by its number of unpaired electrons. Because hydrogen has an unpaired electron, an H atom should form one covalent bond, as indeed it does. The same holds for the F atom, which forms only one bond. The noble-gas atoms He and Ne, which have no unpaired electrons, should not form bonds at all they don t. 

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Valence bond theory (Section 2 3) Theory of chemical bond mg based on overlap of half filled atomic orbitals between two atoms Orbital hybridization is an important element of valence bond theory... 

Hybrid orbital (Section 1.6) An orbital derived from a combination of atomic orbitals. Hybrid orbitals, such as the sp3, s/J2, and sp hybrids of carbon, are strongly directed and form stronger bonds than atomic orbitals do. 

Complexes of d- and /-block metals can be described in terms of hybridization schemes, each associated with a particular shape. Bearing in mind that the number of atomic orbitals hybridized must be the same as the number of hybrid orbitals produced, match the hybrid orbitals sp1d, sp fd , and sp d3f to the following shapes (a) pentagonal bipyramidal ... 

Atomic Orbitals Hybrid Type Number of Orbitals Structure... 

Hybrid- ization sp3 atomic orbitals Hybrid- ization... 

Hybrid orbital Atomic orbitals hybridized Number of hybrid orbitals Angle of hybrid s orbital Example... 

When molecules are farmed, s and p atomic orbitals hybridize to form new shapes and energy levels. 

Methods for evaluating energy directedness of atom orbital hybridization and calculating the energy of chemical bonds in simple and complex structures are proposed based on the application of spatial-energy parameter (P-parameter) concept. The appropriate calculations and comparisons for 68 compounds were made. The results of calculations are coordinated with experimental data. 

Hybridization means the mixing of atom orbitals of different types of the given atom in one molecular (or atom) orbital. Hybridization principles are well-developed in accordance with the experimental data in the frames of general theories of valence bond (VB) and molecular orbitals (MO). 

It should be noted that quantum chemical calculations are used to determine electronegativity of pure s-, p- and d-states. Then, to obtain the atom s electronegativity, they are summarized according to the degree of atom orbital hybridization... 

Forming sp hybrid orbitals is just one way that 2s and 2p orbitals can hybridize. In fact, three common modes of hybridization are seen in organic molecules. The number of orbitals is always conserved in hybridization that is, a given number of atomic orbitals hybridize to form an equivalent number of hybrid orbitals. 

Figure 1.5. Atomic orbitals hybrid sp orbitals, (a) Cross-section and approximate shape of a single orbital. Strongly directed along one axis. (d) Representation as a sphere, with small back lobe omitted, (c) Two orbitals, with axes lying along a straight line.

Directed occupied bonding orbitals and non-occupied antibonding orbitals between the Ni atom and the two phosphorus ligands are formed when two electrons of the Ni 4s orbitals are promoted into the Ni 3d orbitals. The Ni 4s and 4p atomic orbitals hybridize into two empty atomic orbitals directed to the occupied lone pair on the phosphorus atom. When the hydrogen molecule approaches this complex, the interaction is again weak. The empty, spatially extended Ni p orbitals required for bonding have been pushed upwards to a high... 

Hybrid orbitals are named by indicating the number and kind of atomic orbitals hybridized. Hybridization of one s orbital and onep orbital gives two sp hybrid orbitals. We shall see presently that hybridization of one s and two p orbitals gives three sp hybrid orbitals hybridization of one s orbital and three p orbitals gives four sp hybrids, and so on (see Table 8-2). 

Hybridization is the mixing of at least two nonequivalent atomic orbitals, for example, s and p orbitals. Therefore, a hybrid orbital is not a pure atomic orbital. Hybrid orbitals and pure atomic orbitals have very different shapes. 

Coordination number Arrangement of donor atoms Orbitals hybridized Hybrid orbital description Example... 

Hybridization is not limited to s and p orbitals, but may, in general, involve the mixing of all types of atomic orbitals. Hybrids involving d orbitals... 

To explain this type of structure we have chosen sodiiam chloride. The sodium atom has one valence electron and the chlorine atom, seven electrons. Each atom is surrounded by six neighbors of the other element. Consequently, in classical theory, it is impossible, with the eight available electrons, to build two electron bonds between the sodium and chlorine atoms and still respect the equivalence between the neighboring atoms. The situation is the same for localized molecular orbitals, doubly utilized. In return, it is possible to describe the system by means of four delocalized molecular orbitals, constructed on the s and p orbitals of each chlorine atom, as well as on the sp d2 hybrid orbitals of the neighboring sodium atoms pointing toward the chlorine atom. The delocalized system is constructed from ten atomic orbitals (hybrid or not). This structure is a generalization of the case of where each of two molecular... 

There are molecular orbitals constructed from atomic orbitals, hybrid in general, belonging to certain atoms of a tridimensional rigid framework, and from orbitals of one or many metallic atoms. 

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