Exam 3
Learning Outcomes
Students will know...
- how to draw and interpret electron line/dot structures
- how to tell the difference in non-polar and polar bonds
- how to determine whether a molecule is polar or not
- how to assign formal charge to all atoms in a molecule or ion
- how to assess whether a structure will exhibit resonance
- how to depict resonance with multiple structures and what it means
- what electron delocalization means
- how to assess structures and determine the electronic geometry surrounding an atom in the structure
- how to determine the molecular geometry surrounding an atom in a structure
- the relative strengths and lengths of molecular bonds
- how to assess the bond order of a bond for both regular structures and resonance structures
- what the criteria are for a greenhouse gas
- the major greenhouse gases affecting our climate
- what and where the ozone layer is
- the role the ozone layer plays in our over all global climate
- how CFCs are detrimental to the ozone layer and the mechanism by which they operate