Section 4.3—Electron Structure

The E-Config Hotel

Restaurant

The managers of this hotel are Aufbau, Hund , and Pauli.

You are an employee who works at the hotel. When placing guests in their rooms, you MUST follow the rules!

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How the Electron Hotel Fills

Rules:1. “From the Bottom Up”: Rooms must be filled from the ground floor up (meaning you must

fill the floors from lowest to highest). Fill the one room on the first floor before starting to put new guests on the second floor. Then fill the s room before the p rooms. Therefore, you must fill each room with two people before moving to the next floor.

2. “Singles First”: The manages of the hotel want to have the guests spread out as possible. For that reason, singles are placed in rooms before couples. This means that you place one person in each room, then go back and fill the rooms with the left over people. (**Remember ONLY TWO people per room!)

3. “Opposite Gender Only”: When two people are placed in a room, they must be of OPPOSITE genders. No men may room together and no women may room together. This is just an arbitrary rule the owners made!

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Another Example

If 8 people come to the hotel, where would you put them?

If 21 people come to the hotel, where would he put them?

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s p df

• Remember! s BEFORE p, because lower in energy!

• Remember! the further away from the ground (nucleus), the more energy!

• Remember! Guests (electrons) want to be in the lowest energy level possible!

Where do electrons really live?

Electron Clouds

They don’t live in a hotel…They are in the area outside of the nucleus where the electrons reside.

Electron Clouds

Electron cloud

Principal energy levels

Subshells

Orbitals

The electron cloud is made of energy levels (s,p,d,f)

Energy levels are composed of subshells (1,2,3,4 …)

Subshells have orbitals.

Electron Hotel

Which section of the hotel

Which floor

Which room

Subshell versus Orbital

Subshell – A set of orbitals with equal energy

Orbital – Area of high probability of the electron being located.

Each orbital can hold 2 electrons

Electron Configuration

What are electron configurations?

They show the grouping and position of electrons in an atom.

The number and configuration of electrons determines how something glows…so it’s important to know “where the electrons live” for an atom!

Electron configurations use boxes for orbitals and arrows for electrons.

Energy and Subshells

1s

2s

3s

4s

5s

2p

3p

4p

5p

3d

4d

6s

6p5d

4f

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Subshells are filled from the lowest energy level to increasing energy levels.

Does this look familiar? Electron Hotel!

Aufbau Principle

Aufbau Principle: Electrons fill subshells (and orbitals) so that the total energy of atom is the minimum

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The first of 3 rules that govern electron configurations

What does this mean?

Electrons must fill the lowest available subshells and orbitals before moving on to the next higher energy subshell/orbital.

Where did we see this “rule” in the Electron Hotel?

Hund’s Rule

Hund’s Rule: Place electrons in unoccupied orbitals of the same energy level before doubling up.

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How does this work?

If you need to add 3 electrons to a p subshell, add 1 to each before beginning to double up.

Where did we see this “rule” in the Electron Hotel?

Pauli Exclusion Principle

Pauli Exclusion Principle: Two electrons that occupy the same orbital must have different spins.

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“Spin” describes the angular momentum of the electron

“Spin” is designated with an up or down arrow.

How does this work?

If you need to add 4 electrons to a p subshell, you’ll need to double up. When you double up, make them opposite spins.

Where did we see this “rule” in the Electron Hotel?

Determining the Number of Electrons

Charge = # of protons – # of electrons

Atomic number = # of protons

Example:How many electrons does Br-1

have?

Writing Electron Configurations

Aufbau Principle: Electrons fill subshells (and orbitals) so that the total energy of atom is the minimum1

Pauli Exclusion Principle: Two electrons that occupy the same orbital must have different spins.3

Hund’s Rule: Place electrons in unoccupied orbitals of the same energy level before doubling up.2

Example:Write the boxes & arrows

configuration for Cl

Remember- determine the NUMBER of electrons before configuring!

Writing Electron Configurations

Aufbau Principle: Electrons fill subshells (and orbitals) so that the total energy of atom is the minimum1

0 = 17 - electrons

No charge written Charge is 0

Atomic number for Cl = 17 = # of protons

Electrons = 17

Pauli Exclusion Principle: Two electrons that occupy the same orbital must have different spins.3

Hund’s Rule: Place electrons in unoccupied orbitals of the same energy level before doubling up.2

1s 2s 2p 3s 3p

4231567910111213141516178

Example:Write the boxes & arrows

configuration for Cl

Spectroscopic Notation

Spectroscopic Notation

Shorthand way of showing electron configurations

The number of electrons in a subshell are shown as a superscript after the subshell designation

1s 2s 2p 3s 3p

1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p5

Writing Spectroscopic Notation

Determine the number of electrons to place1

Fill in subshells until they reach their max (s = 2, p = 6, d = 10, f = 14).3

Follow Aufbau Principle for filling order2

The total of all the superscripts is equal to the number of electrons.4

0 = 16 - electrons

No charge written Charge is 0

Atomic number for S = 16 = # of protons

Electrons = 161s 2s 2p 3s 3p2 2 6 2 4

2 2 6 2 4+ + + + = 16

Example:Write

spectroscopic notation for

S

Noble Gas Configuration

Noble Gases & Noble Gas Notation

Noble Gas – Group 8 of the Periodic Table. They contain full valence shells.

Noble Gas Notation – Noble gas is used to represent the core (inner) electrons and only the valence shell is shown.

1s 2s 2p 3s 3p2 2 6 2 6 4s 2 3d 10 4p 5

4s 2 3d 10 4p 5[Ar]

Br

Spectroscopic

Noble gas

The “[Ar]” represents the core electrons and only the valence electrons are shown

How do you know which noble gas to use to symbolize the core electrons?

Which Noble Gas Do You Choose?

Think: Price is Right.

How do you win on the Price is Right?

By getting as close as possible without going over.

Choose the noble gas that’s closest without going over!

Noble Gas # of electrons

He

Ne

Ar

Kr

Xe

2

10

18

36

54

Noble Gas Notation Example

Determine the number of electrons to place1

Start where the noble gas left off and write spectroscopic notation for the valence electrons3

Determine which noble gas to use2

Example:Write noble gas notation

for As

+

Noble Gas Notation Example

Determine the number of electrons to place1

Start where the noble gas left off and write spectroscopic notation for the valence electrons3

Determine which noble gas to use2

0 = 33 - electrons

No charge written Charge is 0

Atomic number for As = 33 = # of protons

Electrons = 33

[Ar] 4s 3d 4p2 10 3

18 2 10 3+ + = 33Closest noble gas: Ar (18)

Ar is full up through 3p

Example:Write noble gas notation

for As