Chapter 5 Models of the Atom

1. Chapter 5Models of the Atom

2. Atomic Models Rutherford used existing ideas bout the atom and proposed an atomic model in which the electrons move around the nucleus. However, Rutherford’s atomic model could not explain the chemical properties of element. Niels Bohr, a student of Rutherford’s, changed Rutherford’s model to include how the energy of an atom changes when it absorbs or emits light. The Bohr Model – he proposed that an electron is found only in specific circular paths, or orbits, around the nucleus.

3. The Bohr Model Each possible electron orbit in Bohr’s model has a fixed energy. The fixed energies an electron can have are called energy levels. The fixed energy levels of electrons are somewhat like the rungs of the ladder in which the lowest rung of the ladder corresponds to the lowest energy level. An electron can jump from one energy level to another. Electrons in an atom cannot be between energy levels.

4. The Bohr Model To move from one energy level to another, an electron must gain or lose jus the right amount of energy. In general, the higher an electron is on the energy ladder, the farther it is from the nucleus. A quantum of energy is the amount of energy required to move and electron from one energy level to another energy level. The energy of an electron is said to be quantized. The term quantum leap originates from the ideas found in the Bohr model of the atom.

5. The Bohr Model The amount of energy an electron gains or loses in an atom is not always the same. The energy levels in an atom are not equally spaced. The higher energy levels are closer together. The higher the energy level occupied by an electron, the less energy it takes to move from that energy level to the next energy level. The Bohr model gave results in agreement with experiments for the hydrogen atom (1e-), but failed to explain the energies absorbed and emitted by atoms with more than one electron.

6. Refresher Every atom, except hydrogen, consists of a small dense nucleus composed of protons and neutron that accounts for most of the mass of the atom. Hydrogen is an exception because it has only one proton in its nucleus. Negatively charged electrons surround the nucleus and occupy most of its volume. Electrons contribute little to the mass of an atom.

7. Energy Levels Example When light shines on a fluorescent material, its electrons absorb the energy and move to a higher energy level. Almost immediately, the material begins to emit light as the electrons drop back down to their usual energy level.

8. The Quantum Mechanical Model The Rutherford planetary model and the Bohr model of the atom are based on describing paths of moving electrons as you would describe the path of a large moving object. New theoretical calculation and experimental results were inconsistent with describing electron motion this way. Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger used these new results to devise and solve a mathematical equation describing the behavior of the electron in a hydrogen atom.

9. The Quantum Mechanical Model The Quantum Mechanical Model is the modern description of the electrons in atoms comes from the mathematical solution to the Schrodinger equation. Like the Bohr model, the quantum mechanical model restricts the energy of electrons to certain values. Unlike the Bohr model, the quantum mechanical model does not involve an exact path the electron takes around the nucleus. The quantum mechanical model determines the allowed energies an electron can have an how likely it is to find the electron in various locations around the nucleus

10. The Quantum Mechanical Model How likely it is to find the electron in a particular location is described by probability. The quantum mechanical model describes of how the electron moving around the nucleus is similar to the motion of a rotating propeller blade. The propeller blade has the same probability of being anywhere in the blurry regions it produces, but you cannot tells its precise location at any instant.

11. The Quantum Mechanical Model The probability of finding an electron within a certain volume of space surrounding the nucleus can be represented as a fuzzy cloud. The cloud is more dense where the probability of finding the electron is high. The cloud is less dense where the probability of finding the electron is low. It is unclear where the cloud ends, there is at least a slight chance of finding the electron at a considerable distance form the nucleus.

12. The Quantum Mechanical Model Therefore, attempts to show probabilities as a fuzzy cloud are usually limited to the volume in which the electron is found 90% of the time. To visualize an electron probability cloud, imagine that you could mold a sack around the cloud so that the electron was inside the sack 90% of the time. The shape of the sack would then give you a useful picture of the shape of the cloud.

13. Atomic Orbitals Atomic orbital is often thought of as a region of space in which there is a high probability of finding an electron. The energy levels of electrons in the quantum mechanical model are labeled by principal quantum numbers (n) n is assigned the values of 1,2,3,4, … For each principal energy level, there may be several orbitals with different shapes and at different energy levels. These energy levels within a principal energy level constitute energy sublevels. Each energy sublevel corresponds to an orbital of different shape describing where the electron is likely to be found.

14. Different atomic orbitals are denoted by letters. s orbitals are spherical and p orbitals are dumbbell-shaped. Because of the spherical shape of an s orbital, the probability of finding an electron at a given distance from the nucleus in an s orbital does not depend on direction. The three kinds of p orbitals have different orientations in space. P orbitals s orbital

15. There are five kinds of d orbitals. d orbitals 4 of the five d orbitals have clover leaf shapes but different orientations in space The shapes of f orbitals are more complicated then for d orbitals.

17. Questions Why did Rutherford’s atomic model need to be replaced? It could not explain why metals or compounds of metals give off characteristic color when heated nor the chemical properties of the elements. What was the basic new proposal in the Bohr model of the atom. An electron is found only in specific circular paths or orbits around the nucleus.

18. Questions What does the quantum mechanical model determine about electrons in atoms? It determines the allowed energy levels an electron can have and the likelihood of finding an electron in various locations around the nucleus. How do two sublevels of the same principal energy level differ from each other? The sublevels have different shapes. How can electrons in an atom move from one energy level to another? By losing or gaining just the right amount of energy – a quantum.

19. Question The energies of electrons are said to be quantized. Explain what this means. In an atom, the electrons can have certain fixed energy levels. To move from one energy level to another requires the emission or absorption of an exact amount of energy, or quantum. Thus the energy of the electron is said to be quantized.

20. Question How many orbitals are in the following sublevels? 3p 3 2s 1 4p 3 3d 5 4f 7

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22. Electron Configuration • In most natural phenomena, change proceeds toward the lowest possible energy. • In the atom, electrons and the nucleus interact to make the most stable arrangement possible. • The way in which electrons are arranged into various orbitals around the nuclei of atoms are called electron configuration. • Three rules tell you how to find the electron configurations of atoms. • The aufbau principle • The Pauli exclusion principle • Hund’s rule

23. Electron Configuration Rules • aufbau Principle • Electrons occupy the orbitals of lowest energy first. • Pauli Exclusion Principle • An orbital can hold a maximum of 2 electrons. • 2 electrons in the same orbital must have opposite spins. • An electron is "paired" if it is sharing an orbital with another electron with an opposite spin. • Anelectron is "unpaired" if it is alone in an orbital • Paired unpaired

24. Electron Configuration Rules • Hund’s Rule • Electrons occupy orbitals of the same energy in a way that makes the number of electrons with the same spin direction as large as possible. • One electron enters each orbital until all the orbitals contain one electron with the same spin direction • For example, three electron would occupy three orbitals of equal energy as follows: • Second electrons then occupy each orbital so that their spins are paired with the first electron in the orbital. Thus each orbital can eventually have two electrons with paired spins.

34. Electron Configuration Practice Write the electron configuration for each atom. How many unpaired electrons does each atom have? Carbon (atomic number 6 so 6 protons = 6 electrons) 1s22s22p2 2 unpaired electrons Argon 1s22s22p63s23p6 no unpaired electrons Silicon 1s22s22p63s23p2 2 unpaired electrons

35. Exceptional Electron Configurations Some actual electron configurations differ from those assigned using the aufbau principle because half-filled sublevels are not as stable as filled sublevels. You can obtain correct electron configurations for the elements up to vanadium (atomic number 23) by following the aufbau diagram for orbital filling. Cr 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d4 using aufbau Cr 1s22s22p63s23p64s13d5 correct

36. Exceptional Electron Configurations Transition elements are some exceptions to the filling rules. These exceptions can be explained by the atom’s tendency to keep its energy as low as possible. These exceptions help explain the unexpected chemical behavior of transition elements.

37. Shorthand Electron Configurations Electron configurations are often abbreviated by naming the last element with a filled shell (halogens) in brackets and listing only the orbitals after the filled shell. Na:  1s22s22p63s1 shorthand    Na:  [Ne] 3s1 Al: 1s22s22p63s23p1 shorthand Al: [Ne] 3s23p1 V: 1s22s22p63s23p6 4s23d3 shorthand V: [Ar] 4s23d3

38. End of Section 5.2

39. Light Neon signs are formed from glass tubes bent in various shapes An electric current passing through the gas in each glass tube makes the gas glow with its own characteristic color. Each gas glows with a specific color of light.

40. Light The quantum mechanical model grew out of the study of light. Isaac Newton tried to explain what was know about the behavior of light by assuming that light consists of particles. By 1900, there was enough evidence to conclude that light consisted of waves.

41. Waves Each complete wave cycle starts at zero, increases to its highest value, passes through zero to reach its lowest value, and returns to zero again. Amplitude of a wave is the wave’s height from zero to the crest. Wavelength (λ) is the distance between the crests.

42. Waves Frequency (ν) is the number of wave cycles to pass a given point per unit of time. The units of frequency are usually cycles per second. The SI unit of cycles per second is called a hertz (Hz) A hertz can also be expressed as a reciprocal seconds (s-1) Hz = s-1

43. Light The product of frequency and wavelength always equal a constant (c) = the speed of light c = λν The wavelength and frequency of light are inversely proportional to each other. As the wavelength increases, the frequency decreases. According to the wave model, light consists of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic radiation includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, ultraviolet waves, X-rays, and gamma rays.

44. Light All electromagnetic waves travel in a vacuum at a speed of 2.998 x 108 m/s c = 2.998 x 108 m/s Sunlight consists of light with a continuous range of wavelengths and frequencies. The color of light depends on its frequency. When sunlight passes through a prism, the different frequencies separate into a spectrum of color. A rainbow is an example of this phenomenon.

45. Electromagnetic Spectrum Each color of the spectrum blends into the next in the order red, orange, yellow green, blue and violet. In the visible spectrum, red light has the longest wavelength and the lowest frequency.

46. Sample Problems What is the wavelength of radiation with a frequency of 1.50 x 1013 Hz? Does this radiation have a longer or shorter wavelength than red light? c = λν or λ = c / ν λ=(2.998 x 108 m/s) / (1.50 x 1013 s-1) λ= 2.00 x 10-5 m (longer wavelength than red light) What frequency is radiation with a wavelength of 5.00 x 10-8m? In what regions of th e electromagnetic spectrum is this radiation? c = λν or ν = c / λ ν=(2.998 x 108 m/s) / (5.00 x 10-8 m) ν= 6.00 x 1015s-1 (ultraviolet)

47. Atomic Spectra Passing an electric current through a gas in a neon tube energizes the electrons of the atoms of the gas, and causes them to emit light. When atoms absorb energy, electrons move into higher energy levels, and these electrons lose energy by emitting light when they return to lower energy levels. Ordinary light is made up of a mixture of all the wavelengths of light. However, the light emitted by atoms consists of a mixture of only specific frequencies. Each specific frequency of visible light emitted corresponds to a particular color.

48. When light passes through a prism, the frequencies of light emitted by an element separate into discrete lines to give the atomic emission spectrum of the element.

49. Atomic Spectra Each discrete line in an emission spectrum corresponds to one exact frequency of light emitted by the atom. The emission spectrum for each element is like a person’s fingerprint. No two elements have the same emission spectrum. Atomic emission spectra are useful for identifying elements. Argon’s atomic emission spectra

50. Explanation of Atomic Spectra Atomic line spectra were known before Bohr proposed his model of the H atom. However, Bohr’s model explained why the emission spectrum of H consists of specific frequencies of light. In the Bohr model, the lone electron in the H atom can have only certain specific energies. The lowest possible energy of the electron is its ground state. In the ground state, the electron’s principal quantum number is 1 (n=1) Excitation of the electron by absorbing energy raises it from the ground state to an excited state with n = 2,3,4,5…