Sunday, February 12, 2012

Types of Reaction (including activity series and solubility) -- By Nemo Jin


Energy Diagrams and Calculations--By Tina Zhao

Energy Diagrams:
















Important Terms:








Energy of reactants: Total potential energy of all reactants in the reaction




Energy of product: Total potential energy of all products in the reaction




Energy of the activated complex: potential energy of the "transition state" between reactants




and products.




Activation energy: The energy that must be added to get the reaction to progress




Enthalpy: It is the energy of products - energy of reaction 




There are some examples




http://www.sciencegeek.net/Chemistry/taters/energydiagram.htm)


















Energy in the Equation






- The energy absorption or release can be placed directly in the equation.




Exothermic : Reactions have the energy term on the right hand side and a negative H




example: CH4 + 2O2 ------CO2 + 2H2O + 812KJ






Endothermic: Reaction have the energy term on the left hand side and a positive H




example: I2 + Br2 + 81.5KJ -------2IBr










Energy Calculations




- The value of H change of a reaction and is expressed in KJ per mole of one of the chemical.
- We ignore the negative in conversion calculation because we use words




example: Using the follow reaction, how many moles of CH4 are needed to produce 2100KJ 




of energy? 










CH4 + 2O2 ------- CO2 + 2H2O + 812 KJ








2100KJ x 1mole of CH4 / 812KJ = 2.6moles of CH4


































































Endothermic/exothermic Reaction -- by Ria Park


All chemical reactions make changes in energy. Those are:

  Endothermic Reaction:


  • This reaction absorbs energy.
  • e.g. one ice pack melts. -> it absorbs energy so that ice becomes water.
  • It takes more energy to break bonds.



  Exothermic Reaction:

  • This reaction release energy.
  • 2 explosion explode. -> it release energy.
  • It takes takes less energy to break bonds.


> Chemical bonds hold molecules together.
  • add energy to break bonds
  • lose energy to to join together again.
> Enthalpy(H) is the heat contained in the reactions.





Balancing Equation --By Tina Zhao

Balancing Equation:
- The aim of balancing equation is to make the number of atoms of each kind on the reactant side equal to those on the product side. 


Rule:
-Chemical formulas of reactants are listed on the lefthand side of the equation. 
-Products are listed on the righthand side of the equation. 
-Reactants and products are separated by putting an arrow between them to show the direction of the reaction. Reactions at equilibrium will have arrows facing both directions. 
- First balance the atoms which only occur in one molecule on each side of equation
Balance whole group whenever possible, rather than considering the atoms of groups separately
- Be systematic: do not jump all over an equation balancing a bit here and bit these
-balance atoms which occur in elemental from last. By elemental form we mean that the atoms are not combined with atoms of a different kind.



Example for balancing equation:


step 1:These are simply the formulas for the chemicals named in the problem

step2:
step3:
step4:





http://www.files.chem.vt.edu/RVGS/ACT/notes/scripts/bal_eq1.htm
Open these links, these links may help you for balancing equation. 


Ionic Compound:

Ionic compounds are basically defined as being compounds where two or more ions are held next to each other by electrical attraction. One of the ions has a positive charge (called a "cation") and the other has a negative charge ("anion").I 

example:
NaCI :  Sodium Chloride
K2SO4:potassium Sulphate
FE2O3:  Iron(III)Oxide

Covalent Compound:
-Bonding between non-metals consists of two electrons shared between two atoms. 
Mono: 1 Di:2  Tri:3 Tetra:4 Penta: 5 Hexa:6 Hepta:7 Octa:8 Nona:9 Deca:10 Hendeca:11 Dadeca:12

Translating word equations/naming compounds -- by Ria Park

Sometimes we need to translate balancing equations into word equations. There are some rules that they have to follow.

For ionic compounds:
NaCl -> Sodium Chloride
MgCl₃ -> Magnesium Chloride
Fe₂O₃-> Iron(Ⅱ) Oxide

  • Put '-ide' at the and of the names of non-metals


For Covalent Compounds:
mono  1
di        2
tri        3
tetra    4
penta  5
hexa   6                      >> Put any of these infront of the names of non-metals
hepta  7
Octa   8
nona   9
deca   10
hendeca  11
dodeca    12

CO₂Carbon dioxide
CO   carbon monoxide


Acids:
HCl  Hydro chloric acid
H₂SO₄Sulfuric aicd
H₂SO₃Sulfurous acid
HNO₃Nitric acid

  •  --ate -> --ic
  • --ite -> --ous


E.g.

  1.  Cu + 2AgNO₃-> Cu(NO₃)₂+ 2Ag  ==>> Copper + silver nitrate -> copper nitrate + silver
  2. Cu + I -> CuI ==>> Copper + Iodine -> Copper Iodide
  3. C₃H8 + O₂ -> CO₂+ H₂O ==>> Trioxide Octahydride -> Carbon dioxide + water