Engineering Chemistry ENC115C/SEH115B Chemical Substances Mr. R. Berkers
Engineering Chemistry ENC115C/SEH115B Chemical Substances Mr. R. Berkers
Engineering Chemistry ENC115C/SEH115B Chemical Substances Mr. R. Berkers
ENC115C/SEH115B
CHAPTER 2
Chemical Substances
Mr. R. Berkers
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
Chemical substances and formulas
Molecule:
Physicists at the DoE’s Berkeley Lab in California captured the first ever high-resolution
images of a molecule as it makes and breaks chemical bonds to form different molecules.
As you can see above, the most shocking thing is that these molecules are virtually
identical to the skeletal diagrams that chemists have been using for almost a century.
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Chemical substances and formulas
Empirical Formula:
• This is the formula that gives the simplest whole-number ratio of atoms in a compound.
• An empirical formula makes no mention of the arrangement or number of atoms in the
compound.
• Thus the empirical formula gives the proportions of the elements present in a compound
but not the actual numbers of the atoms present in the compound (this is called the
molecular formula).
• The empirical formula also does not give the arrangement of the atoms present in the
compound (this is called the structural formula).
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Molecular Formula:
• A molecular formula indicates what elements are present in one molecule. The formula
will give the number of atoms of each element present in one molecule.
• A molecular formula will give no information about the structure of the compound.
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Chemical substances and formulas
Ion:
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Chemical substances and formulas
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Reduction Oxidation
M+ + e- → M X- → X + e-
Electrolytic Cell:
• Interchange of ions and atoms due to the addition or removal of electrons from the
external circuit.
• Cations move to the cathode, take electrons from the cathode and become neutral.
• Anions give up their extra electrons to the anode and are oxidized to neutral atoms at the
anode.
• This can be remember by using the word OILRIG:
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Naming of Chemical Compounds
• Most cations and anions can combine to form neutral, solid compounds that are usually
known as salts.
• The net charge of an ionic compound must be zero. Therefore, the number of cations
and anions in an ionic compound must be balanced to make an electrically neutral
molecule.
• An ionic compound is named first by its cation and then by its anion.
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Naming of Chemical Compounds
• The cation has the same name as its element. For example, K +1 is called the potassium
ion, just as K is called the potassium atom.
• The anion is named by taking the elemental name, removing the ending, and adding
“ide”. For example, F-1 is called fluoride, for the elemental name, fluorine. The “ine” was
removed and replaced with “ide”.
• To name a compound, the cation name and the anion named are added together. For
example, NaF is also known as sodium fluoride.
• A few simple polyatomic anions also have names ending in –ide, i.e.
OH- = Hydroxide ion
CN- = Cyanide ion
O22- = Peroxide ion
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Naming of Chemical Compounds
• Polyatomic ions are built off of groups of atoms that are covalently bonded
together (they are bonded together by sharing electron pairs between the
atoms), and the entire group has a positive or negative charge.
• Because the atoms in a polyatomic ion are usually covalently bonded to one
another, they stay together as a single, charged unit.
• An example of a polyatomic ion is the nitrate ion, NO3-, which contains one
nitrogen atom and three oxygen atoms.
• When naming polyatomic compounds the following rules apply:
Add a hydrogen to the beginning of the compound:
The word “Hydrogen” is added to the beginning of the compound name.
This reduces the negative charge by one.
For example, “Carbonate” CO32- becomes “Hydrogen carbonate” HCO3¯.
Remove an Oxygen from the compound.
The charge stays the same and the ending of the compound changes from
“-ate” to “–ite”.
For example: NO3 to NO2 goes from “nitrate” to “nitrite”.
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Naming of Chemical Compounds
Replace the central atom with another from the same periodic group.
For example, sulfate SO42- can become Selenate SeO42-.
Memorize the most common ion groups.
These are the basis for forming most polyatomic compounds. Listed in order of
increasing negative charge, they are:
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Naming of Chemical Compounds
Build compound names based off the list on the previous page. Associate
whatever element(s) is attached to the group ion and name accordingly. i.e.
element name and polyatomic ion combined.
If the element comes in front of the polyatomic ion, the name of the element is
simply added to the beginning of the compound name, for example Potassium (K)
and th polyatomic ion Permanganate (MnO4¯ ) form the compound Potassium
Permanganate KMnO4.
If more than one polyatomic ion is present (for example 2 x NO 3- groups) the
polyatomic ion is enclosed in parentheses, for example Ca(NO 3)2, not CaNO32 or
CaN2O6. The name of this ionic compound is simply calcium nitrate, not calcium
dinitrate.
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Naming of Chemical Compounds
1 atom – “Mono-“
2 atoms – “Di-“
3 atoms – “Tri-“
4 atoms – “Tetra-“
5 atoms – “Penta-“
6 atoms – “Hexa-“
7 atoms – “Hepta-“
8 atoms – “Octa-“
9 atoms – “Nona-“
10 atoms – “Deca-“
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