Sunday, May 4, 2014

RULES IN WRITING ELECTRON CONFIGURATION
Pauli's exclusion principle:

•        No two electrons in the same atom can have the same set of values for all the four quantum numbers.

•        Two electrons in a given orbital have the same values of n, I and m but differ in spin quantum numbers.

Aufbau principle:

•        The orbitals are successively filled in the order of their increasing energy.

•        Among the available orbitals, the orbitals of lowest energy are filled first
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•        The relative energy of orbital can be known by (n+ℓ) formula.

•        If two orbitals have the same value of (n + ℓ), the orbital having lower n value is first filled.

•        As atomic number increases, (n + ℓ) formula is not useful to predict the relative energies of orbitals

a)        for example, up to z = 20, 3d > 4s

Beyond z = 20, energy difference narrows up. Beyond z = 57, 3d < 4s.

b)       upto to z = 57,4f > 5p

beyond z = 57, 4f > 5p ; At z = 90, 4f < 5s.

•        The order of filling of orbitals can be known from Moellar's diagram.

Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity:

•  Orbitals having the same values for n and  are called degenerate orbitals.

•        Pairing of orbitals will begin after the available degenerate orbitals are half filled.

•        Orbitals with highest resultant spin value are more stable.

•        The degenerate orbtials are filled to have like spins as far as possible.

•        As per Hund's rule, the number of unpaired electrons in the ground state of C, N, O are 2, 3, 2 respectively.

•        In the absence of Hund's rule, the number of unpaired electrons in C, N, O are 0, 1, 0 respectively.

•        The filling of orbital is governed by Pauli's principle.

•        The filling of sub-orbit is governed by Hund's rule.

•        The filling of orbitals of various suborbits is governed by Aufbau principle.

•        The maximum number of electrons that are present in the outer most shell of any atom = 8

•        The maximum number of electrons that are present in the (n–1) most shell of any atom = 18

•        The maximum number of electrons that are present in the (n–2) most shell of any atom = 32


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