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Lecture 23: Main Group Chemistry An Introduction We have spent the better part of the school year developing physical models to describe atomic structure, chemical bonding and the thermodynamics and kinetics physical and chemical phenomena. In all of that, however, we have been just as content to use generic symbols like A + B Æ C + D or to describe a weak acid as HA, as to actually assign it a real chemical structure with real chemical reactivity. In this chapter we right this wrong, working systematically through the main groups of the periodic table, learning for each group and particularly significant elements in those groups: • The natural forms in which the elements are found, including the hydrides and oxides • The famous chemical reactions that involve the chemical compounds containing those elements • The important practical uses of the compounds containing those elements.Common themes in Main Group Chemistry: We must have learned something useful during the year that will help to explain the chemistry of the main group elements. Here are some important themes that appear to explain pretty much everything that happens 1. The number of valence electrons in atoms drive the chemistry of a compound. And the main group number corresponds to the number of valence electrons 2. Compounds formed by main group elements pretty much always satisfy the octet rule if they can, achieving noble gas-like electronic configurations 3. There are trends in the periodic table that are pretty much determined by the effective nuclear charge and overall number of electrons in an atom. These trends are: a) atomic radius decreases moving to the right and up the periodic table b) ionization energy increases moving to the right and up the periodic table c) electronegativity increases to the right and up the periodic table d) polarizability increases to the right and down the periodic table e) non-metallic character increases to the right and up the periodic table 4. The second row of the periodic table is very special because overlap of adjacent 2p orbitals creates  bonding and because the significance of intermolecular hydrogen bonding forces. In contrast, third and higher rows create expanded orbitals to accommodate additional electrons in mushy low energy bonds.5. Pretty much every element except the noble gases forms very stable compounds with itself, whether through metallic bonding, network solids like C, or small covalent molecules like N2 or P4. 6. Pretty much every compound forms hydrides (reacts with hydrogen. Basic ionic hydrides like NaH are found to the left on the periodic table and increasingly covalent acidic hydrides like HCl are found to the right on the periodic table. 7. Pretty much every compound forms oxides. Basic oxides are found to the left on the periodic table, a remarkable array of transitional metal and metalloid oxides with varied oxidation number make up the earth crust and give us the wealth of materials (from glass to gemstones) that make our lives interesting, and end at the right side of the table with the molecular oxides, like CO2 or SO3, that form oxyacids in water. If you walked around thinking about these 7 ideas all the time, you would have the makings of a pretty good inorganic chemist.Hydrogen Belongs to No Group We would like to start with Group I, but first we need to get H out of the way. It doesn’t really belong to any group given its chameleon-like nature. Perhaps the biggest clue for this is that it has an EN of 2.1 which would position it right smack in the middle of row 2 where it is remarkably adept at picking up a single electron like the halogens to be Noble gas-like, and equally adept at losing an electron to form the proton. Common forms for elemental hydrogen. There are three isotopes of hydrogen with almost all of it consisting of a single electron surrounding a single proton which means it has a 1s1 configuration meaning it would be happy both gaining and losing an electron.. Looking around the universe hydrogen is king, with 90% of all the atoms. On earth, its elemental form is dihydrogen, H2, a flammable gas that is so light it just floats off into space. On the bright side hydrogen reacts with just about everything to form hydrides 2K(s) + H2(g) Æ 2KH(s) or H2 + O2 Æ 2H2O (like in water) or any of the hydride forming reactions in the tableso there is plenty of H around, if not exactly in the forms we prefer. So why to people love hydrogen? Because as dihydrogen, H2, it produces the most energy per mass of any fuel in the reaction 2H2 + O2 Æ H2O -474kJ So obviously being able to find or create H2 is lucrative as drilling for oil. So what are some ways to make H2? Industrially it is done using a Nickel catalyst to drive the reforming reaction: Ni CH4 + H2O Æ CO + 3H2 reforming reaction And in the lab you can generate it easily using: Zn + 2H+ Æ Zn+2 + H2 You can even do it in the privacy of your own home by throwing a battery in water. But ideally we want to do it with as inexpensive a source of energy as possible, and the holy grail of all chemical reactions these days is the photochemical decomposition of water. Using sunlight rather than that expensive battery to drive the electrolysis of water.hν H2O Æ 2H2 + O2 G = +474 kJ Reactions of H2 So what do people do with H2 when they make it? • Drive cars in the 21st century • Extract pure metals like copper from ore: M+ + H2 Æ Cu + 2H+ when ΔG is negative • React it in the Haber Process to make NH3 which is used to fertilize the earth.Group I: The Alkali Metals Alkali metals are a general chemistry student’s friend. There is no ambiguity about them. Every one of them: • Has a 1s1 electronic configuration • Has a really low ionization energy • Behaves like a metal (easily oxidized) in donating an electron to form a mono-cation that are ALWAYS +1 oxidation state no matter the compound • Has really low boiling and melting points and weak bonding • are highly reactive in water and with just about anything. • Forms basic hydrides and oxides. These materials are the metals stored in glycerin that I trot out every couple of weeks, clean up, slice to expose a shiny large surface area, and then step back to watch explode according to the following displacement reaction: 2Na + 2H2O Æ


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