Comprehensive Final Review Topics Spring 2016

Approximately 80% will come from the following

· AO nodal surfaces and l quantum number See Q1 Qz1, Q1 Exam 1

· Radial portion of wavefunction

· Electron configurations, periodic trends for example Exercises 1.15,18,21,23; Problems 1.3 Q3,4 Exam1

· Symmetry see for example Exercises 6.1- 6.7 Quiz 4 Q2,4 Exam 2

symmetry elements

symmetry operations

point group symmetry

chirality? Y or N Q3 Qz6 Q1 Qz 7 Q5b Exam 4

reading character tables Q2 Qz6, Q7 Exam 2

· Solids 3 common cubic units cells (P, I, F) Exercises 3.3,3.6-3.8,3.10-3.12 Quiz 6, Q1-4 Exam 3

· Molecule shape VSEPR, Lewis dot structures Q1 Qz6, Q8 Exam 3

· Molecular orbitals:

Resulting wavefunctions from AO overlap Q3 Qz2

bonding, antibonding, nonbonding orbitals

MO diagrams and relation to Lewis dot properties

Use of MO diagrams to predict molecular properties/reactivity

See Exercises 2.14 – 16, 2.19

SALC's, meaning/usage, symmetry Exercise 7.3, Q3,6 Exam 2 Q8 Exam 3

· Coordination complexes

d-electron count

common ligands Q5 Exam 4, en and bipy!

Td, Oh, sq. planar splitting diagrams and interrelationships

magnetism c_g , c_M, m_eff Q8 Exam 4

LFSE Q6 Exam 4

backbonding involving pi acids

Exercises 20.1,3,4,5

· Redox Chemistry

balancing half reactions, a skill you must have Q1 Exam 4

Frost diagrams to summarize redox chemistry

Inter-relationship between K, DG, E Q3 Exam 4

Approximately 20% will come from the following

EAN rule, electron counting

Oxidative addition, reductive elimination

Beta hydrogen elimination