Concepts for Midterm I
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General Concepts
- Simple nomenclature of ionic materials (salts)
- General differences between metallic and nonmetallic elements
- Periodic trends among the nonmetals in Group 13-1
- Assignment of oxidation state in nonmetals and metals
- Nomenclature of coordination compounds
- Identity and names of common ligands and their charges
- How to figure out the number of d-electrons in a metal of known oxidation state and vice versa
- Give electronic configurations of the elements and their ions given the periodic table
- How to calculate cell potentials (both at standard conditions and non-standard conditions)
- How to balance a redox Rxs. in either acid or basic aqueous solutions
- Calculate the relationship between cell potential, spontaneity, reaction quotient and equilibrium constant
- How to construct a battery, including salt bridge, electrodes and half reactions. (when to use an inert electrode like Pt or C)
- What is an intensive and extensive property? Examples?
- The role of the Pauli exclusion and aufbau principles in electronic configurations of transition metals
- How to protect metals from corrosion.
- How to electroplate and calculate the amount of material that is electroplated in a cell.
- Calculation of current in a cell (e.g. charge of electrons/sec)
- Trends in metal and atomic radii
- Electronic structure of Transition metals and corresponding ions
- How magnetism occurs. What is para- and dia-magnetism
- Definition of complexes, including both inner vs. outer sphere groups.
- Identify atoms on a polyatomic ligand that will bind to a metal
- How to form a Coordinate covalent bond.
- How polydentate ligands do their stuff. Some thermodynamics of the chelate effect.
- Identify the five types of isomers discussed in class (minus optical isomers)
- If given two structure, determine if they are isomers of each other (minus optical isomers)
Terms to know (Definitions)
- Anode, Cathode, electrode
- Battery
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary (Fuel Cells)
- Galvanic and electrolytic cell
- Concentration Cell
- Cathodic protection
- Cell diagram
- Cell potential
- Activity Series
- Standard Reduction Potential
- Faraday constant
- Half-cell
- Nernst Equation
- Extensive vs. Intensive Properties
- Overpotential
- Salt bridge
- Volt
- Ampere
- Standard hydrogen electrode (SHE)
- Coordination number
- Oxidation
- Reduction
- Spectator ion
- Oxidizing and reducing agents
- Standard conditions
- Ligand
- Monodentate, bidentate, polydentate
- Paramagnetism, diamagnetism and ferromagnetism
- Corrosion
- Electrolysis
- Sacrificial Anodes
- Self-passivation
- Amalgam
- Ferromagnetism, diamagnetism, paramagnetism
- Lanthanide contraction
- Aufbau Principle
- Octahedral, tetrahedral, square planer, linear, bend geometries
- Hund’s Rule
- cis, tran isomers
- mer, fac isomers
- Inner Sphere
- Geometric isomer, linkage isomer, coordination isomer, ionization isomer, optical isomer, chirality