Lithium ionization energy

Lithium has one valence electron and the jump occurs after the first ionization energy. Lithium easily forms the common lithium 1-1- ion, but is unlikely to form a lithium 2+ ion. The jump in ionization energy shows that atoms hold... 

Which has the larger second ionization energy, lithium or beryllium Why ... 

Lithium is a hard silver metal that has identical reactions to sodium, but slower (partly due to its higher first ionization energy). Lithium and potassium also react with chlorine the reaction with potassium is faster and more exothermic (compared to sodium) the reaction with lithium is slower and less exothermic (compared to sodium). 

The electron configuration for lithium is ls 2s1 and for beryllium it is ls 2s. Estimate the approximate ionization energies to remove first one, then a second, electron. Explain your estimates. 

What trend is observed in the first ionization energy as you move from lithium down the column I metals On this basis, can you suggest a reason why potassium or cesium might be used in preference to sodium or lithium in photoelectric cells ... 

Thus we can expect a stable molecular species, LiF. The term stable again means that energy is required to disrupt the molecule. The chemical bond lowers the energy because the bonding electron pair feels simultaneously both the lithium nucleus and the fluorine nucleus. That is not to say, however, that the electrons are shared equally. After all, the lithium and fluorine atoms attract the electrons differently. This is shown by the ionization energies of these two atoms ... 

The lithium fluoride bond is highly ionic in character because of the large difference in ionization energies of lithium and fluorine. Consequently, gaseous lithium fluoride has an unusually high electric dipole. 

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Return to the case of LiF. Lithium ionizes readily, but has little affinity for electrons (I = ionization energy = 5.4 eV and A = electron affinity = 0eV.). On the other hand, fluorine is difficult to ionize, but has considerable electron affinity (I = 17.4eV. and A = -3.6eV.). Thus, when Li and F atoms are close neighbors, electrons can transfer to make Li+ and I. These then attract electrostatically until compression of their ion-cores prevent them from contracting further. In a solid crystal, there are both attractive +/- pairs, and repulsive (+/+ as well as -/-) pairs. However, for large arrays, there is a net attraction. This can be shown most simply by examining a linear chain of +q, and -q charges (Kittel, 1966). 

It is difficult to prepare compounds containing Li2+ due to the immense amount of energy that is required to remove a second electron from an ion of lithium, i.e., there is a very large amount of energy (the second ionization energy) required for this reaction ... 

This energy is not likely to be repaid during compound formation. The reason for such a high second ionization energy for lithium is because the electron configuration of Li+ is Is2 which has a filled s orbital. It is the special stability of the filled s orbital which prevents the formation of Li2+ ions. Also, the formation of Li2+ requires 14 times more energy than the formation of Li+ and so is much less likely. 

The enthalpy of reaction 2.45 cannot be determined directly. As shown in figure 2.5, it is calculated by using several experimental quantities the standard enthalpy of formation of the solid alkoxide, the standard sublimation enthalpy and the ionization energy of lithium, and the standard enthalpy of formation and the adiabatic electron affinity of gaseous methoxy radical (equation 2.47). 

A) and for the 1 s orbital, the average distance =- q-1 bohr is 2.25 bohr for q = 2/3. From both this point of view, and that of the ionization energy, the latter quarkonium atom is rather comparable to the lithium atom, and expected to be chemically highly reactive. 

From the electron configurations we can see that lithium is in the 2nd period, group 1A, and potassium is in the 4th period, group 1A. Since lithium is above potassium in the same group, the atomic radius of lithium is smaller than that of potassium but the first ionization energy is higher. 

From Fig. 6 it is seen that in the group of the alkali halides the heat of formation always increases from iodine to fluorine and also from lithium to caesium, this latter with the exception, however, of the fluorides. In this group the sequence is just reversed in this case, in view of the small radius of the negative fluorine ion, the decrease of the lattice energy predominates over that of the ionization energy, which decreases much more slowly than proportional to i /r+. 

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