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It s important that scientists communicate with each other. Communication requires that a standard vocabulary be adopted. In chemistry, part of that vocabulary is chemical nomenclature—the names and formulas of ions and compounds. In this chapter you will learn some of the rules chemists use to name substances and to write their formulas. Please realize that there are over 60 million known chemical compounds. There are always exceptions to the rules given in this chapter however, they are not ones with which you need to be concerned. 

There are three classifications of elements metals, nonmetals, and metalloids. Metals are shown on the left side of the periodic table, nonmetals on the right, and metalloids between the two. Metalloids are elements that have properties intermediate between those of metals and nonmetals. 

Chemical compounds can be classified into two categories ionic and molecular. Ionic compounds contain ions, very often a metal ion with a positive charge and a nonmetal ion with a negative charge. The bond holding the two ions together is called the ionic bond. 

An ionic compound consists of positive and negative ions, not neutral atoms. 

A molecular compound consists of neutral atoms, not ions. 

Have you ever wondered why salt dissolves so quickly in water but oil does not ... why bubbles form when you open a soft drink can ... why a glass of water fizzes when an Alka-Seltzer tablet is plopped into it What s going on at the submicroscopic level that makes these things happen To answer these questions, you need to know more about the structure of water, including the spatial arrangement of atoms in water molecules. The purpose of this section is to begin to describe the three-dimensional structure of molecular compounds such as water. 

A more precise definition of valence electrons, and an explanation for why chlorine has seven, sulfur six, and so on, will have to wait until you learn more about atomic theory in Chapter 11. For now, it is enough to know the numbers of valence electrons for each nonmetallic atom and know how they are used to explain the bonding patterns of nonmetallic atoms. 

The valence electrons for an element can be depicted visually in an electron-dot symbol. (Electron-dot symbols are known by other names, including electron-dot structures, electron-dot diagrams, and Lewis electron-dot symbols.) An electron-dot symbol that shows chlorine s seven valence electrons is 

Electron-dot symbols are derived by placing valence electrons (represented by dots) to the right, left, top, and bottom of the element s symbol. Starting on any of these four sides, we place one dot at a time until there are up to four unpaired electrons around the symbol. If there are more than four valence electrons for an atom, the remaining electrons are added one by one to the unpaired electrons to form up to four pairs. 

There is no set convention for the placement of the paired and unpaired electrons around the symbol. For example, the electron-dot symbol for chlorine atoms could be 

Recall that the atom is made up of protons and neutrons in the nucleus, and electrons orbiting in an external shell. Because of the way the electrons distribute, there are multiple layers in which the electrons can orbit. The most important electrons are in the outer layer, furthest away from the nucleus, and are denoted as the valence electrons. It is the interaction of these valence electrons that leads to the formation of molecules. 

Each grouping of atoms wants to exist in its lowest energy state, which is achieved when it has a complete outer shell of electrons. In order to achieve this completion of the shell, the atom may share electrons with a neighboring atom. When two elements each share one of their valence electrons, they share a pair of electrons and a covalent bond is formed. In some cases, two elements can complete their outer shell if one of the elements donates an electron to a neighboring element. In this case, an ionic bond is formed. Ionic compounds will be described in Section 4.4.2. 

The periodic table provides more information about the atomic structure than just the mass number, atomic number, and some of the chemical behaviors of elements. Elements in a column have the same number of valence electrons. The valence electrons are the electrons involved in the formation of covalent bonds. In fact, for the main group elements (group A), the number of valence electrons is equal to the group number (with the exception of helium). 

For the first three rows of the periodic table, when molecules are formed (with just a few exceptions), the complete outer shell of each atom involved in the formation of a covalent bond contains eight electrons. For example, the diatomic molecule of fluorine (F ) is made from two atoms of fluorine (F) (each with seven valence electrons). When these two atoms combine, they each share a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond and six electrons remain on each fluorine atom. The outer shell of each fluorine atom contains eight electrons, the six original electrons remaining with each atom and the two that are now shared, thus forming a stable molecule. 

For transition elements also known as transition metals (periods 4 through 7), the outer valence shell may contain as many as 18 electrons, distributed into suborbitals. Transition metals are involved in the formation of coordination complexes. 

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Even when well defined model systems are used, colloids are ratlier complex, when compared witli pure molecular compounds, for instance. As a result, one often has to resort to a wide range of characterization teclmiques to obtain a sufficiently comprehensive description of a sample being studied. This section lists some of tire most common teclmiques used for studying colloidal suspensions. Some of tliese teclmiques are discussed in detail elsewhere in tliis volume and will only be mentioned in passing. A few teclmiques tliat are relevant more specifically for colloids are introduced very briefly here, and a few advanced teclmiques are highlighted. 

Picrates, Picric acid combines with amines to yield molecular compounds (picrates), which usually possess characteristic melting points. Most picrates have the composition 1 mol amine 1 mol picric acid. The picrates of the amines, particularly of the more basic ones, are generally more stable than the molecular complexes formed between picric acid and the hydrocarbons (compare Section IV,9,1). 

Unlike aliphatic hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons can be sul-phonated and nitrated they also form characteristic molecular compounds with picric acid, styphnic acid and 1 3 5-trinitrobenzene. Many of the reactions of aromatic hydrocarbons will be evident from the following discussion of crystalline derivatives suitable for their characterisation. 

Picrates, Many aromatic hydrocarbons (and other classes of organic compounds) form molecular compounds with picric acid, for example, naphthalene picrate CioHg.CgH2(N02)30H. Some picrates, e.g., anthracene picrate, are so unstable as to be decomposed by many, particularly hydroxylic, solvents they therefore cannot be easily recrystaUised. Their preparation may be accomplished in such non-hydroxylic solvents as chloroform, benzene or ether. The picrates of hydrocarbons can be readily separated into their constituents by warming with dilute ammonia solution and filtering (if the hydrocarbon is a solid) through a moist filter paper. The filtrate contains the picric acid as the ammonium salt, and the hydrocarbon is left on the filter paper. 

Calcium chloride cannot be used to dry the ethereal solution because it combines with aniline (and other amines) to form molecular compounds. The best drying agent is sodium or potassium hydroxide (pellet form). 

In Group 15 (V), nitrogen compounds readily form molecular compounds with BF. Phosphoms compounds also form adducts with BF. Inorganic or organic compounds containing oxygen form many adducts with boron trifluoride, whereas sulfur and selenium have been reported to form only a few (41—43). 

Iron Sulfur Compounds. Many molecular compounds (18—20) are known in which iron is tetrahedraHy coordinated by a combination of thiolate and sulfide donors. Of the 10 or more stmcturaHy characterized classes of Fe—S compounds, the four shown in Figure 1 are known to occur in proteins. The mononuclear iron site REPLACE occurs in the one-iron bacterial electron-transfer protein mbredoxin. The [2Fe—2S] (10) and [4Fe—4S] (12) cubane stmctures are found in the 2-, 4-, and 8-iron ferredoxins, which are also electron-transfer proteins. The [3Fe—4S] voided cubane stmcture (11) has been found in some ferredoxins and in the inactive form of aconitase, the enzyme which catalyzes the stereospecific hydration—rehydration of citrate to isocitrate in the Krebs cycle. In addition, enzymes are known that contain either other types of iron sulfur clusters or iron sulfur clusters that include other metals. Examples include nitrogenase, which reduces N2 to NH at a MoFe Sg homocitrate cluster carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, which assembles acetyl-coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) at a FeNiS site and hydrogenases, which catalyze the reversible reduction of protons to hydrogen gas. 

Compound CAS Registry Molecular Compound CAS Registry Molecular... 

Like other alkaloids of this group, quinine forms molecular compounds with a variety of organic substances. With benzene and toluene it produces compounds of the formulae B. CgHg and B. C,Hg respectively, with phenol it gives the crystalline product B. CgHjOH, and similar combinations with polyhydric phenols, ethers, aldehydes and ketones are known. One of the most characteristic of these substances is cupreine-quinine, a combination of the two alkaloids, obtainable from cuprea bark, and at first regarded as a new alkaloid, and named homoquinine. ... 

Boron is a unique and exciting element. Over the years it has proved a constant challenge and stimulus not only to preparative chemists and theoreticians, but also to industrial chemists and technologists. It is the only non-metal in Group 13 of the periodic table and shows many similarities to its neighbour, carbon, and its diagonal relative, silicon. Thus, like C and Si, it shows a marked propensity to form covalent, molecular compounds, but it differs sharply from them in having one less valence electron than the number of valence orbitals, a situation sometimes referred to as electron deficiency . This has a dominant effect on its chemistry. 

The boron trihalides are volatile, highly reactive, monomeric molecular compounds which show no detectable tendency to dimerize (except perhaps in Kr matrix-isolation experiments at 20K). In... 

The ability of C to catenate (i.e. to form bonds to itself in compounds) is nowhere better illustrated than in the compounds it forms with H. Hydrocarbons occur in great variety in petroleum deposits and elsewhere, and form various homologous series in which the C atoms are linked into chains, branched chains and rings. The study of these compounds and their derivatives forms the subject of organic chemistry and is fully discussed in the many textbooks and treatises on that subject. The matter is further considered on p. 374 in relation to the much smaller ability of other Group 14 elements to form such catenated compounds. Methane, CH4, is the archetype of tetrahedral coordination in molecular compounds some of its properties are listed in Table 8.4 where they are compared with those of the... 

An alternative interpretation, supported by evidence from relevant molecular compounds is that the distortions are the result of intercluster M-X interactions (see p. 1031)... 

Sodium Salicylate.—When an aldehyde is shaken with a saturated solution of sodium salicylate, there seems to be evidence of the formation of a weak molecular compound, and with cinnamic aldehyde well-defined crystals have been obtained which give on analysis —... 

For infinitely long chains (polymers), terms (Gcx Gex) + (Gdefi Gdefl) will be close to zero. Consequently, in infinitely long chains and polymers, free energy change in the process can be close to the one in similar reactions of low-molecular compounds (P. Flori principle) [10]. 

Consequently, any association must decrease chain tendency to degradation. However, the existence of such intermediate particles at association, which possess lower height of the reaction barrier, may be probable. In this case, kinetic probabilities of the process performance increase. A sufficiently sharp increase of kinetic probabilities of the reaction must be observed in the case, if a low-molecular compound (oxygen, for example) participating in the reaction is highly stressed. But it is necessary to remember that even if kinetic probabilities of the process are increased, the reaction will also proceed in the case of its thermodynamic benefit. As association depends on macromolecule concentration, it should be taken into account at the calculation of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of the process according to thermodynamics. 

If cycles being broken are relatively large, (Gch-s -Gch-s) and (AG, - AG,) will be close to similar values at the break of low-molecular compounds. Since the change of the polymer-solvent contact number depends weakly on the molecular weight of the cycle, then both (Gch-s Gch-s) and (AG, - AGs) will be constant. At relatively small sizes of the cycle, the number of macrochain molecule-solvent contacts can be connected nonlinearly with the chain length. Then, as in the previous paragraph ... 

Consequently, AG is defined by Cc coefficient as well as by the change of element deflection, labor over the system, and the number of intermolecular bonds. The value of Cc approaches the A G value observed in similar reactions with the participation of only low-molecular compounds. As intermolecular bonds are distributed in elements according to Gibbs distribution, then chain parts between the molecular bonds and branching points possess different lengths in which the lengths of nonassociated parts are also different. Gibbs distribution is only performed in polymer equilibrium, which usually exists in so-called stationary states. 

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