Dr. Tanuja Nautiyal Department of Chemistry Sharda Public School Almora Radicals and Chemical Formulae
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Dr. Tanuja Nautiyal Department of Chemistry
Sharda Public School Almora
Radicals and Chemical Formulae
RadicalsIons
How to write a chemical formula
Radicals and Chemical Formulae
Radicals are atomic or molecular species with unpaired electrons
which are capable of independent existence.
Radicals
Electrophiles
Nucleophiles
Free- radicals
Type of Radicals
•The attacking reagents are classified into three types: Electrophiles
•Positively charged or neutral species, which are deficient of electrons and can accept a pair of electrons are called electrophiles. These are also called electron loving (philic) species. •For example: H+, H3O+, Cl+, CH3
+, NO2+ (Positively
charged)AlCl3, BF3, SO3 (Neutral)
•Both Al and B act as electrophiles as they have total of six electrons i.e. two less than the octet, and so they try to complete their octets. These are also called as Lewis acids.
Electrophile
•A nucleophile is a reagent containing an atom having unshared or lone pair of electrons.
•As a nucleophile is electron rich it seeks electron deficient sites i.e., nucleus (nucleus loving).
•According to Lewis concept of acids and bases, nucleophiles behave as Lewis bases. •For example: NH3, H2O, ROH, ROR (neutral)
Nucleophiles
A free radical may be defined as an atom or group of atoms having an unpaired electron.
Free radicals are produced during the homolytic fission of a covalent bond.
Free Radical
Free radicals are very reactive as they have strong tendency to pair up their unpaired electron with another electron from wherever available.
These pairs are very short lived and occur only as reaction intermediates during reactions.
For example, dissociation of chlorine gas in the presence of ultra-violet light produces chlorine free radicals:
Free Radical
The alkyl free radical may be obtained when free radical chlorine attacks methane.
Free Radical
Free radicals may be classified as primary, secondary or tertiary depending upon whether one, two or three carbon atoms are attached to the carbon atom carrying the odd electron:
Free Radical
The order of stability of alkyl free radicals is: CH3 <>o <>o <>o
This order of stability can easily be explained on the basis of hyperconjugation. Larger the number of alkyl groups, attached to the carbon atom carrying the odd electron, greater is the delocalisation of the odd electron and hence more stable is the free radical.
Accordingly, the tertiary free radical with three alkyl groups attached to the carbon atom carrying the odd electron is more stable than the secondary free radical containing two alkyl groups and so on.
Stability of free radicals
The carbon atom in alkyl free radicals involves sp2 hybridization. Therefore, it has a planar structure. Three hybrid orbitals are used in the formation of three s-bonds with three H atoms or alkyl group. The unpaired electron is present in unhybridized p orbital.
Structure of alkyl free radical
Orbital structure of free radicals
Types of Radicals
Acid radicals:-The acid radical is an anion left after removal of hydrogen atoms from an acid.
Basic radicals:-The basic radical is the cation left after removal of OH or other alkaline group from the bases.
IONS
•An ion is a charged species in which an atom or a group of atoms possess a net electric charge.
•The net electric charge of an ion can either be positive or negative.
•Positively charged ions are called cations and negatively charged ions are called anions.
Cations are atoms that have lost an electron to become positively charged.
The ions of all the metal elements are cations.
If an atom loses one electron, then the cation formed has 1 unit positive charge.
Examples:- Na+ , Zn2+, Mg2+, Al3+ etc.
CATION
A neutral lithium (Li) has 3 protons and 3 electrons, and it is missing an electron. Then we have 3 protons and 2 electrons. So lithium loses one electron to become a 1+cation.
CATION
CATION
Anions are atoms or groups of atoms that have gained electrons. Having more negatively charged electrons than positively charged protons, they are negatively charged.
Most anions are composed from multiple atoms, and are called polyatomic ions.
Examples:- Cl− , O2- , co32-, PO4
3- etc.
ANIONS
A neutral chlorine Cl has 17 protons and 17 electrons, and it is gaining one electron. Then we have 17 protons and 18 electrons. So, chlorine gained one electron to become a 1- anion.
ANIONS
ANIONS
Chemical formula of a compound is the symbolic representation of its atomic constituents. In other words, a chemical formula represents the composition of a molecule in terms of the symbols of the elements present in that molecule. To write the chemical formula of a compound, one should have prior knowledge of two things.
1.The symbols of the constituent elements.
2.The combining capacity of each atom constituting the compound
Chemical Formula
VALENCY The combining power or the combining
capacity of an atom or an element is called its valency. The number of atoms of other elements with which one atom of an element combines is decided by the valency of that element.
For example, both hydrogen and chlorine have a valency of 1. Therefore, one atom of hydrogen reacts with one atom of chlorine to form one molecule of hydrogen chloride.
The valency of an ion is equal to the charge on it.
VALENCY
The valencies of some common ions are given in the following table.
Name of ion
Symbol Valency Name of ion
Symbol Valency
Aluminium Al3+ 3 Sulphite SO32- 2
Ammonium
NH4+ 1 Bromide Br− 1
Calcium Ca2+ 2 Carbonate CO32- 2
Copper(II) Cu2+ 2 Chloride Cl− 1
Hydrogen H+ 1 Hydride H− 1Iron(III) Fe3+ 3 Hydroxide OH− 1
Potassium K+ 1 Oxide O2− 2Zinc Zn2+ 2 Sulphide S2− 2
STEPS TO WRITE A CHEMICAL FORMULA
1.Write the symbols of the elements which form a compound.
If we have to write the formula of hydrogen
sulphide. First write down the symbols of hydrogen and sulphur.
Symbols: H S
2. Below the symbol of each element, write down its valency.
Symbols: H S
Valencies: 1 2
STEPS TO WRITE A CHEMICAL FORMULA
3.Finally cross-over the valencies of the combining atoms. This will give the required formula.
Symbols: H S
Valencies: 1 2
THE REQUIRED FORMULA ISH2S1 or H2S
STEPS TO WRITE A CHEMICAL FORMULA
Formula of some compoundsChemical compounds Chemical Formula
Silver chloride AgCl
Aluminium nitrate Al(NO3)3
Barium chloride BaCl2 Calcium carbonate CaCO3
Potassium nitrate KNO3
Magnesium aluminate Mg(AlO2)2
Sodium carbonate Na2CO3
Dr. Tanuja Nautiyal Department of Chemistry
Sharda Public School Almora
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