Chemistry 401

Review Highlights for the Final Exam

Atomic Properties

Electron configurations from the Periodic Table

Periodic trends

Ionization Potential

Electron Affinity

Effective Nuclear Charge, Z*

Atomic size

Atomic polarizability

Covalent Bonding

Valence Bond Theory

Lewis Dot Structures

octet rule

formal charge

oxidation number

Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion structures

Hybridization

Molecular Orbital Theory

Overlap of orbitals

Energy level diagrams

The Solid State

Close Packed Structures

Ionic Solids

Lattice Energies

Born-Haber cycles

Ionic radii

Metals & Semiconductors

Band energy diagrams

Band gaps

Doping

Symmetry

Find point groups

Acid/Base Reactions

Brønsted/Lowry Theory

Definition

Acid strength, K_a, pK_a

Structure & Bonding relationships

Lewis Theory

Definition

Reaction types

Hard/Soft Acid/Base theory

Donor Numbers & Acceptor Numbers

Drago-Wayland Equation

Oxidation/Reduction Reactions

Thermodynamics, E^o, ΔG^o

Nernst Equation

Latimer diagrams

Pourbaix diagrams

Kinetics of electron transfer

Transition Metal Chemistry

Structures

Metal influence

Ligand influence

Nomenclature

Crystal Field Theory

10Dq, Δ_o, Δ_t

Spectrochemical series

Nonoctahedral geometries

Jahn-Teller effect

Valence Bond Theory – Effective Atomic Number rule

Molecular Orbital Theory