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Bond angle
Angle formed between 2 adjacent bonds.
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Bond length
Equalibrium destance between the nucliei of 2 bonding atoms.
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Lone Pair electrons
electrons not used for bonding
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Pi bond
Covalent bond formed by sideways overlap of 2 atomic orbital.
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Sigma bond
Covalent bond formed by head on overlap of 2 atomic orbitals
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sp
sp2
sp3
Hybrid orbital derived from an s and p orbital (180o)
Hybrid orbital derived from an s and 2 p orbital (120o)
Hybrid orbital derived from an s and 3 p orbital (109o)
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Dipole moment
measure of net polarity of a molecule
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Electronegativity
Ablility of an atom to attract electrons in a covalent bond
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Formal charge
difference in the number of e- owned by an atom in a molecule and by the same atom in its elemental state.
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Lewis acid
Substance w/ a vacant low energy orbital that can accept an electron pair from a base.
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Lewis acid
Substance that can donate an electron pair to an acid.
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Pair Covalent bond
Covalent bond w/ a unsymetrical e- distribution between atoms.
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Alkane
compound of only C-H with a single bond.
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Alkyl group
Partial structure that remains after removing H from an alkane.
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Branched chain alkane
Branch chain of C-H single bond atoms.
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Conformation
3D shape of a molecule, frozen bond rotation
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Conformers
rotomers, Conformational isomers
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Constitutional isomers
structural, isomers that have their atoms connected in different order.
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Eclipsed conformation
C bond substituents that are parallel parts of a C-C molecule.
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Fuctional group
Atom or group of atoms that is part of a larger molecule and that has a characteristic reactivity.
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Hydrocarbon
Compound that contains only C-H
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Isomers
Compounds w/ the same formula but different structure.
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Newman Projection
Means of indicating stereochemical relationships between substituent groups.
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R group
General abbreviation for an organic paticle sturcture.
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Saturated
Molecule w/ only a single bond (alkanes)
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Staggered conformation
3D arrangment of atoms of a C-C bond when the bonds on one carbon bisect the angle of the 2nd carbon.
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Stereochemistry
Branch chemistry concerned w/ 3D
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Steric Strain
(crowding) Strain on a molecule when 2 groups are too close and try to occupy the same space.
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Substituent
Atom or group of atoms substituted in place of an H atom on the parent Hydrocarbon chain.
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Torsional strain (eclipse)
Strain in a molecule caused by electron repulsion between eclipse bonds.
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Alicyclic (cycloalkane/ cycloalkene)
An aliphatic cyclic hydrocarbon.
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Angle strain
Strain induced when a molecule bond angle is deformed from it's ideal value.
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Axial position (on cyclohexane ring)
Bond to a chair-cylcohexane that lies along the rings axis perpendicular to the plane of the ring.
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Boat (twist boat)
- Conformation of cyclohexane that resembles a boat.
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Chair
- Conformation of cyclohexane that resembles a chair,
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Cis / Trans
Stereoisomers that differ in their stereochemistry about a double bond or ring.
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Conformational analysis
Means of assesing the energy of a substituted cycloalkane by total of it's steric interactions of the molecule.
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1,3 diaxial intersection
Strain energy caused by steric interaction between axial groups 3 carbon atoms apart in chair cyclohexane.
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Ring Flip (cyclohexane)
Conversion of chair formation making axial substituents into equitorial substituents.
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Stereoisomers
Atoms connected in the same order but different 3D arrangments.
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