1 00:00:01 --> 00:00:04 The following content is provided by MIT OpenCourseWare 2 00:00:04 --> 00:00:06 under a Creative Commons license. 3 00:00:06 --> 00:00:10 Additional information about our license and MIT 4 00:00:10 --> 00:00:15 OpenCourseWare in general is available at ocw.mit.edu. 5 00:00:15 --> 00:00:21 I just wanted to briefly remind you of some of the periodic 6 00:00:21 --> 00:00:27 trends that we talked about. As you go across the periodic 7 00:00:27 --> 00:00:32 table, both the electron affinity and the ionization 8 00:00:32 --> 00:00:37 energy increase. They increase because the 9 00:00:37 --> 00:00:44 nuclear charge increases. Remember, the potential energy 10 00:00:44 --> 00:00:50 of interaction is Z times e, where that is the nuclear 11 00:00:50 --> 00:00:54 charges, times e over 4 pi epsilon nought r. 12 00:00:54 --> 00:01:00 13 00:01:00 --> 00:01:04 Z increases as you go across the periodic table here. 14 00:01:04 --> 00:01:07 As you go across, r is remaining the same because 15 00:01:07 --> 00:01:11 you are essentially still in the same shell. 16 00:01:11 --> 00:01:15 And so what increases is that attractive interaction, 17 00:01:15 --> 00:01:18 meaning the electrons are more strongly bound, 18 00:01:18 --> 00:01:23 meaning ionization energy and electron affinity increases as 19 00:01:23 --> 00:01:25 you go across. And this also means, 20 00:01:25 --> 00:01:30 as you go across, r, the radius decreases. 21 00:01:30 --> 00:01:34 The radius decreases again because Z increases. 22 00:01:34 --> 00:01:38 The nucleus is pulling the electrons in closer. 23 00:01:38 --> 00:01:44 Since they are all in the same shell, r is remaining the same. 24 00:01:44 --> 00:01:49 And so, the overall effect is that the radius of the atoms 25 00:01:49 --> 00:01:53 decreases. As you go down the Periodic 26 00:01:53 --> 00:02:00 Table, the ionization energy and the electron affinity decrease. 27 00:02:00 --> 00:02:04 They decrease because it is the r dependence, 28 00:02:04 --> 00:02:07 here, that takes over. Z is, of course, 29 00:02:07 --> 00:02:10 increasing, but not as fast as r. 30 00:02:10 --> 00:02:16 As you go down the Periodic Table, you are going to shells 31 00:02:16 --> 00:02:20 that, on the average, are further out from the 32 00:02:20 --> 00:02:24 nucleus. And that dependence takes over, 33 00:02:24 --> 00:02:30 causing EA and IE to decrease. And then the radius, 34 00:02:30 --> 00:02:34 of course, increases, because, as you go down, 35 00:02:34 --> 00:02:41 you are putting the electrons into shells which are on the 36 00:02:41 --> 00:02:44 average farther away from the nucleus. 37 00:02:44 --> 00:02:48 That is just a review of those trends. 38 00:02:48 --> 00:02:53 Then, finally, I want to just define another 39 00:02:53 --> 00:02:59 term, and that is the electronegativity. 40 00:02:59 --> 00:03:01 Sometimes we give that the symbol chi. 41 00:03:01 --> 00:03:05 The electronegativity is an empirical quantity. 42 00:03:05 --> 00:03:09 We are going to use Mulliken's definition for the 43 00:03:09 --> 00:03:13 electronegativity. There is a Pauling definition. 44 00:03:13 --> 00:03:17 Mulliken is a little bit more straightforward. 45 00:03:17 --> 00:03:21 And that electronegativity is defined as one-half times the 46 00:03:21 --> 00:03:26 quantity ionization energy plus the electron affinity. 47 00:03:26 --> 00:03:31 The electronegativity is 48 00:03:31 --> 00:03:37 proportional to the average of the ionization energy and the 49 00:03:37 --> 00:03:42 electron affinity. The electronegativity is a 50 00:03:42 --> 00:03:48 measure of the tendency of an atom to accept or to donate an 51 00:03:48 --> 00:03:51 electron. If you look at the Periodic 52 00:03:51 --> 00:03:57 Table, here, you have atoms in the upper right-hand corner of 53 00:03:57 --> 00:04:02 the Periodic Table. Well, they have high 54 00:04:02 --> 00:04:07 electronegativities. They are good electron 55 00:04:07 --> 00:04:09 acceptors. They have high 56 00:04:09 --> 00:04:15 electronegativities because they have high electron affinities. 57 00:04:15 --> 00:04:20 Adding an electron to them means that there is a larger 58 00:04:20 --> 00:04:26 amount of energy release. The anion is much more stable 59 00:04:26 --> 00:04:30 than the neutral. And the electron affinity is 60 00:04:30 --> 00:04:34 minus that energy change, remember from last time. 61 00:04:34 --> 00:04:37 These atoms here, with their high electron 62 00:04:37 --> 00:04:39 affinities, are good electron acceptors. 63 00:04:39 --> 00:04:43 They are also good electron acceptors because their 64 00:04:43 --> 00:04:47 ionization energies are also high, which means you have to 65 00:04:47 --> 00:04:50 put in a lot of energy to pull an electron off. 66 00:04:50 --> 00:04:54 They don't like to donate electrons, rather they are good 67 00:04:54 --> 00:05:00 electron acceptors. And then, the elements that are 68 00:05:00 --> 00:05:06 in the bottom left-hand corner of the Periodic Table have low 69 00:05:06 --> 00:05:11 electronegativities. They are good electron donors 70 00:05:11 --> 00:05:17 because their ionization energy is low in this part of the 71 00:05:17 --> 00:05:22 periodic table. You don't have to put in so 72 00:05:22 --> 00:05:26 much energy to pull an electron off. 73 00:05:26 --> 00:05:31 They are also good electron donors because their electron 74 00:05:31 --> 00:05:37 affinity is low. You don't get as much energy 75 00:05:37 --> 00:05:40 back when you put an electron on them. 76 00:05:40 --> 00:05:44 These are good electron donors. High chi, here. 77 00:05:44 --> 00:05:46 These are good electron acceptors. 78 00:05:46 --> 00:05:51 And one thing you already know probably is that some of the 79 00:05:51 --> 00:05:56 strongest ionic bonds are made between elements in these two 80 00:05:56 --> 00:06:01 corners of the periodic table. An ionic bond, 81 00:06:01 --> 00:06:06 as we are going to talk about, is one in which the electrons 82 00:06:06 --> 00:06:11 are not shared equally. And so these strong ionic bonds 83 00:06:11 --> 00:06:17 occur between elements with high electronegativity and low 84 00:06:17 --> 00:06:21 electronegativity. So that's that concept. 85 00:06:21 --> 00:06:25 And then, finally, one other kind of odd and end 86 00:06:25 --> 00:06:27 here. That is this term 87 00:06:27 --> 00:06:32 isoelectronic. I have listed here a bunch of 88 00:06:32 --> 00:06:35 atoms and ions that are isoelectronic. 89 00:06:35 --> 00:06:40 Isoelectronic means having the same electron structure. 90 00:06:40 --> 00:06:45 All of these atoms and ions have the electron configuration 91 00:06:45 --> 00:06:48 1s 2 2s 2 2p 6. 92 00:06:48 --> 00:06:51 For example, this nitrogen, 93 00:06:51 --> 00:06:55 N minus 3, it has added three electrons to 94 00:06:55 --> 00:07:01 be nitrogen minus three. It has added three electrons to 95 00:07:01 --> 00:07:07 get this electron configuration, this rare gas configuration, 96 00:07:07 --> 00:07:13 this octet configuration which is a very stable configuration. 97 00:07:13 --> 00:07:18 Aluminum has three electrons removed to obtain this 98 00:07:18 --> 00:07:21 particular electron configuration. 99 00:07:21 --> 00:07:25 The common ions, ions that you see commonly in 100 00:07:25 --> 00:07:30 nature, are ions that, in fact, do have this octet 101 00:07:30 --> 00:07:34 configuration, this electron configuration of 102 00:07:34 --> 00:07:37 an inert gas. For example, 103 00:07:37 --> 00:07:42 you will often see compounds with nitrogen minus three. 104 00:07:42 --> 00:07:44 You won't very often see a 105 00:07:44 --> 00:07:49 compound with nitrogen minus two or nitrogen minus one 106 00:07:49 --> 00:07:54 because those are not as stable as nitrogen minus 107 00:07:54 --> 00:07:57 three, given this rare gas or the 108 00:07:57 --> 00:08:00 octet configuration. All right. 109 00:08:00 --> 00:08:04 That is just a little odd and end. 110 00:08:04 --> 00:08:09 I just wanted to make sure that everybody was on the same level 111 00:08:09 --> 00:08:15 with the understanding of the word isoelectronic there. 112 00:08:15 --> 00:08:20 Well, now what I thought I would do is talk a little bit 113 00:08:20 --> 00:08:25 about wave functions and the usefulness of wave functions. 114 00:08:25 --> 00:08:31 This is going to be on the side boards here. 115 00:08:31 --> 00:08:36 I wanted to just show you in kind of simple terms how a wave 116 00:08:36 --> 00:08:42 function actually determines the intensity of some transition. 117 00:08:42 --> 00:08:47 Many of you have asked me about the intensities of transitions, 118 00:08:47 --> 00:08:53 and so I thought I would show you just a little bit about how 119 00:08:53 --> 00:09:00 these wave functions determine the intensities of transitions. 120 00:09:00 --> 00:09:03 First of all, I have to explain this diagram 121 00:09:03 --> 00:09:06 to you. This is going to be a diagram 122 00:09:06 --> 00:09:10 for a hydrogen atom. That is what we are going to 123 00:09:10 --> 00:09:14 talk about here. What we are going to start with 124 00:09:14 --> 00:09:19 is an energy level diagram for the hydrogen atoms. 125 00:09:19 --> 00:09:23 That is what this axis is. And so, I am plotting in that 126 00:09:23 --> 00:09:26 diagram, energy, going up. 127 00:09:26 --> 00:09:31 And I plot the energy level for n equals 1. 128 00:09:31 --> 00:09:37 I plot the energy level for n equals 2, n equals 3, 129 00:09:37 --> 00:09:45 all the way up to n equals 235, which is really very close to 130 00:09:45 --> 00:09:50 zero. That is part of what is on this 131 00:09:50 --> 00:09:55 plot right here, n equals 1, n equals 2, 132 00:09:55 --> 00:10:00 n equals 3. But then, what is also 133 00:10:00 --> 00:10:07 typically done on the same plot is that the potential energy of 134 00:10:07 --> 00:10:11 interaction is plotted as a function of r. 135 00:10:11 --> 00:10:17 And so, on this axis here, kind of superimposed, 136 00:10:17 --> 00:10:22 is this distance r. And we plot often the potential 137 00:10:22 --> 00:10:27 energy of interaction. The potential energy of 138 00:10:27 --> 00:10:33 interaction kind of looks like that. 139 00:10:33 --> 00:10:37 This potential energy of interaction is the Coulomb 140 00:10:37 --> 00:10:43 interaction, minus e squared 4 pi epsilon nought times r. 141 00:10:43 --> 00:10:48 That is what that line is on 142 00:10:48 --> 00:10:51 this plot. Then what we do is we actually 143 00:10:51 --> 00:10:56 plot the form of the wave function, kind of on top of the 144 00:10:56 --> 00:11:01 energy levels. What we do is to say, 145 00:11:01 --> 00:11:04 for example, take the n equals 1 wave 146 00:11:04 --> 00:11:10 function, which starts at r equals 0 at some finite value 147 00:11:10 --> 00:11:14 and it is just an exponential decay. 148 00:11:14 --> 00:11:19 And we plot it on this diagram, but we use the n equals 1 149 00:11:19 --> 00:11:23 energy here as the value of Psi equals 0. 150 00:11:23 --> 00:11:28 In other words, the n equals 1 wave function 151 00:11:28 --> 00:11:34 looks kind of like that. This level here is Psi equals 152 00:11:34 --> 00. 153 0. --> 00:11:36 This is the value of Psi, 154 00:11:36 --> 00:11:38 whatever it is, at r equals 0, 155 00:11:38 --> 00:11:41 and there is just an exponential decay. 156 00:11:41 --> 00:11:46 We plot the wave function on top of that energy level. 157 00:11:46 --> 00:11:49 In other words, this is a complex diagram here. 158 00:11:49 --> 00:11:53 You are going to see, if you take any course beyond 159 00:11:53 --> 00:11:58 this, this diagram a lot, with energy levels and wave 160 00:11:58 --> 00:12:02 functions plotted on top of them. 161 00:12:02 --> 00:12:07 And then, the n equals 2 wave function is plotted on top of 162 00:12:07 --> 00:12:11 the n equals 2 energy level. Again, at r equals 0, 163 00:12:11 --> 00:12:14 it is some finite value and then it drops. 164 00:12:14 --> 00:12:19 At some value of r, we have a node for n equals 2 165 00:12:19 --> 00:12:21 here. The n equals 2 is the Psi 166 00:12:21 --> 00:12:25 equals 0. Right here, you have a radial 167 00:12:25 --> 00:12:27 node. Then it goes up and then it 168 00:12:27 --> 00:12:32 comes back. It goes down to a negative 169 00:12:32 --> 00:12:37 value and then comes back up. That is n equals 2. 170 00:12:37 --> 00:12:42 And so forth and so on. n equals 3 looks like this. 171 00:12:42 --> 00:12:47 It has two radial nodes. That is what that diagram is 172 00:12:47 --> 00:12:51 showing here. And then we get to n equals 173 00:12:51.286 --> 235. 174 235. --> 00:12:54 Here is the wave function. 175 00:12:54 --> 00:12:59 Is this is a hydrogen atom and you have n equals 235, 176 00:12:59 --> 00:13:04 how many radial nodes do you have? 177 00:13:04 --> 234. 178 234. --> 00:13:06 This wave function is passing 179 00:13:06 --> 00:13:11 through this origin 234 times. That is the wave function. 180 00:13:11 --> 00:13:16 And then it tails off. There is always an exponential 181 00:13:16 --> 00:13:20 dependence there. That is what that wave function 182 00:13:20 --> 00:13:23 looks like. Now, how do these relate to the 183 00:13:23 --> 00:13:28 intensity of some transition? Well, the intensity of a 184 00:13:28 --> 00:13:32 transition is related to the overlap between the wave 185 00:13:32 --> 00:13:37 function of the initial state and the wave function of the 186 00:13:37 --> 00:13:42 final state. What do I mean by overlap? 187 00:13:42 --> 00:13:46 Well, by overlap, I mean you take the wave 188 00:13:46 --> 00:13:49 function, here, of the initial state, 189 00:13:49 --> 00:13:54 so I am going to pretend we have a hydrogen atom in the 190 00:13:54 --> 00:13:57 state, this is its wave function. 191 00:13:57 --> 00:14:03 And that hydrogen atom is going to be relaxing to the n equals 1 192 00:14:03 --> 00:14:06 state. What I am going to do, 193 00:14:06 --> 00:14:09 to get the overlap, is I'm going to take the 194 00:14:09 --> 00:14:14 product of the wave function of the initial state times that of 195 00:14:14 --> 00:14:17 the final state, and essentially I am going to 196 00:14:17 --> 00:14:19 integrate that resulting function. 197 00:14:19 --> 00:14:23 I am going to multiply these two wave functions together, 198 00:14:23 --> 00:14:27 and I am going to integrate over all r the resulting 199 00:14:27 --> 00:14:31 function. That is what I mean by overlap. 200 00:14:31 --> 00:14:33 But there is another term here. There is an r, 201 00:14:33 --> 00:14:35 too. That r is important. 202 00:14:35 --> 00:14:38 It has to do with the transition moment dipole. 203 00:14:38 --> 00:14:41 And we won't go into that, but it is there. 204 00:14:41 --> 00:14:44 But it won't affect the argument I am going to make for 205 00:14:44 --> 00:14:47 you right now. We take the wave function of 206 00:14:47 --> 00:14:50 the initial state, multiply it by the final state 207 00:14:50 --> 00:14:54 times r, and then we integrate this whole thing from r equals 0 208 00:14:54 --> 00:15:00 to infinity and then square it. That quantity is proportional 209 00:15:00 --> 00:15:03 to the intensity of some transition. 210 00:15:03 --> 00:15:07 Let's do that. Here is Psi n equals 235, 211 00:15:07 --> 00:15:11 we are multiplying it by Psi of 212 00:15:11 --> 00:15:16 n equals 0 and actually multiplying it by r. 213 00:15:16 --> 00:15:22 And what we are going to see, if we just look at this product 214 00:15:22 --> 00:15:28 here, if we just looked at Psi n equals 235 and 215 00:15:28 --> 00:15:33 Psi n equals 1, if we just looked at that 216 00:15:33 --> 00:15:39 product, we are going to multiply this times that. 217 00:15:39 --> 00:15:42 In a graphical form, it is going to look like this. 218 00:15:42 --> 00:15:44 It is going to go up, down, up, down, 219 00:15:44 --> 00:15:47 up, down. It is going to oscillate and 220 00:15:47 --> 00:15:51 then tail off in an exponential way because we are multiply this 221 00:15:51 --> 00:15:53 up, down, up, down, up down times this 222 00:15:53 --> 00:15:56 exponential decay. It is going to look something 223 00:15:56 --> 00:16:00 like that. But now, we are going to 224 00:16:00 --> 00:16:04 integrate this resulting curve. What you can see is that the 225 00:16:04 --> 00:16:09 area above this curve is equal to the area below this curve, 226 00:16:09 --> 00:16:12 approximately. And, when we integrate 227 00:16:12 --> 00:16:17 something, we are calculating the area underneath the curve. 228 00:16:17 --> 00:16:23 These positive areas are going to cancel these negative areas. 229 00:16:23 --> 00:16:27 The result is that this integral is going to be very 230 00:16:27 --> 00:16:31 small. And the result is that the 231 00:16:31 --> 00:16:34 intensity of that line is very low. 232 00:16:34 --> 00:16:38 The intensities are proportional to this overlap, 233 00:16:38 --> 00:16:42 the overlap of the initial state wave function and the 234 00:16:42 --> 00:16:46 final state wave function. And you can see, 235 00:16:46 --> 00:16:49 here, graphically, how if you integrate that 236 00:16:49 --> 00:16:53 product in this case, the positive areas cancel the 237 00:16:53 --> 00:16:57 negative areas, and you don't have a very 238 00:16:57 --> 00:17:02 intense transition. However, suppose we look at the 239 00:17:02 --> 00:17:06 transition from n equals 3 to n equals 2. 240 00:17:06 --> 00:17:10 Well, here is the n equals 3 wave function, 241 00:17:10 --> 00:17:13 here is the n equals 2 wave function. 242 00:17:13 --> 00:17:19 And our intensity expression says that we have to multiply 243 00:17:19 --> 00:17:21 these two. Let's do that. 244 00:17:21 --> 00:17:25 Let's multiply n equals 3 times n equals 2, here. 245 00:17:25 --> 00:17:30 Well, the result, if you excuse my not so great 246 00:17:30 --> 00:17:37 drawing, is we start out with a very positive function here. 247 00:17:37 --> 00:17:42 But then we have two negatives here, which make it a little bit 248 00:17:42 --> 00:17:45 less negative. But then, we have a positive, 249 00:17:45 --> 00:17:50 here, times a negative, and what that makes is a large 250 00:17:50 --> 00:17:54 area that is negative. And, if we go and integrate 251 00:17:54 --> 00:17:59 that, now we don't have the same cancellation of positive and 252 00:17:59 --> 00:18:03 negative areas. We integrate that, 253 00:18:03 --> 00:18:06 and that transition energy is large. 254 00:18:06 --> 00:18:10 Or, that area is large, therefore the intensity of that 255 00:18:10 --> 00:18:12 transition is large. Bottom line, 256 00:18:12 --> 00:18:17 that is one of the elements that dictates the intensity of a 257 00:18:17 --> 00:18:20 transition. It is also one of the elements 258 00:18:20 --> 00:18:24 that dictates the intensity of your photoelectron spectra. 259 00:18:24 --> 00:18:29 Somebody asked me about it the other day. 260 00:18:29 --> 00:18:32 I had drawn lines in the photoelectronic spectra that 261 00:18:32 --> 00:18:36 were of the same intensity, 1s, 2s, 2p 6. 262 00:18:36 --> 00:18:40 Somebody said, well, you have more electrons 263 00:18:40 --> 00:18:43 in the 2p state. Why don't you have a larger 264 00:18:43 --> 00:18:46 number of electrons coming off? The answer is, 265 00:18:46 --> 00:18:51 that is part of what goes into determining the intensity of the 266 00:18:51 --> 00:18:54 transition, but there is more to it. 267 00:18:54 --> 00:18:57 It is not just the number of electrons. 268 00:18:57 --> 00:19:01 Here is one of the elements that goes into determining the 269 00:19:01 --> 00:19:07 intensity of some transition. It is the wave functions and 270 00:19:07 --> 00:19:13 the overlap between the final and the initial state. 271 00:19:13 --> 00:19:17 And then, I just wanted to also show you, here, 272 00:19:17 --> 00:19:23 for this atom in the n equals 235 state, I plotted just for 273 00:19:23 --> 00:19:29 fun, kind of schematically, what the radial probability 274 00:19:29 --> 00:19:35 distribution would look like. That is just r squared times 275 00:19:35 --> 00:19:38 the radial part squared. And, of course, 276 00:19:38 --> 00:19:41 since the wave function goes like this, oscillates, 277 00:19:41 --> 00:19:45 that is what the radial probability distribution is 278 00:19:45 --> 00:19:48 going to do. And you are going to see 279 00:19:48 --> 00:19:52 nodes here, 234 values of r, that is going to make the wave 280 00:19:52 --> 00:19:56 function be equal to zero. And then way out here, 281 00:19:56 --> 00:20:00 you are going to have a feature. 282 00:20:00 --> 00:20:04 That last feature, here, is going to have the 283 00:20:04 --> 00:20:09 maximum probability, and that is your value of r 284 00:20:09 --> 00:20:15 that is most probable. It turns out for n equals 285 00:20:15 --> 00:20:21 that the most probable value of r is 43,800 angstroms. 286 00:20:21 --> 00:20:24 That is about 4.38x10^-6 meters. 287 00:20:24 --> 00:20:31 This is a really large hydrogen atom, n equals 235. 288 00:20:31 --> 00:20:33 Do they exist? The answer is yes, 289 00:20:33 --> 00:20:37 they do exist. They exist, particularly in 290 00:20:37 --> 00:20:41 outer space, where there is lots of UV radiation to get these 291 00:20:41 --> 00:20:45 hydrogen atoms up into these very excited states. 292 00:20:45 --> 00:20:50 And they exist in deep outer space, where the temperatures 293 00:20:50 --> 00:20:53 are pretty cold. And you need those cold 294 00:20:53 --> 00:20:58 temperatures because this hydrogen atom is not very stable 295 00:20:58 --> 00:21:06 in n equals 235. And, if you went and calculated 296 00:21:06 --> 00:21:12 here, I am going to draw a line, here. 297 00:21:12 --> 00:21:21 This is going to be n equals 235, and this is the zero of 298 00:21:21 --> 00:21:27 energy. This energy difference here is 299 00:21:27 --> 00:21:34 about 4x10^-23 joules. Whereas, at room temperature, 300 00:21:34 --> 00:21:38 we will just talk about the thermal energy, 301 00:21:38 --> 00:21:41 thermal energy is about 4x10^-21 joules. 302 00:21:41 --> 00:21:46 You can see that any little fluctuation at room temperature, 303 00:21:46 --> 00:21:52 since this is two orders of magnitude larger than what this 304 00:21:52 --> 00:21:57 bound by, any little fluctuation would kick this very weakly 305 00:21:57 --> 00:22:02 bound electron up and ionize it. And it would. 306 00:22:02 --> 00:22:07 You really only see these in environments that are very cold, 307 00:22:07 --> 00:22:12 where you don't perturb what are called Rydberg atoms 308 00:22:12 --> 00:22:16 sometimes. I think in the laboratory the 309 00:22:16 --> 00:22:22 largest Rydberg atom that has been made is n equals 180 or n 310 00:22:22 --> 00:22:26 equals 200 or so. Anyway, that was really just 311 00:22:26 --> 00:22:32 for fun that I wanted to tell you about that. 312 00:22:32 --> 00:22:38 Now, there is another little tidbit that I want to talk to 313 00:22:38 --> 00:22:44 you about that has to do with how knowing something about the 314 00:22:44 --> 00:22:51 energy levels in an atom leads to a nice practical device, 315 00:22:51 --> 00:22:57 like a helium neon laser. We have to take a look at the 316 00:22:57 --> 00:23:02 neon energy levels. And so we have another 317 00:23:02 --> 00:23:07 discharge lamp here, and we have some more of these 318 00:23:07 --> 00:23:12 glasses, here, so that you can resolve the 319 00:23:12 --> 00:23:16 neon lines here. The TAs will get them out. 320 00:23:16 --> 00:23:21 Here is our neon discharge lamp. 321 00:23:21 --> 00:23:27 322 00:23:27 --> 00:23:30 You can resolve, here, the neon spectrum. 323 00:23:30 --> 00:23:34 The spectrum that you should see should be what is shown on 324 00:23:34 --> 00:23:38 the side walls here. Let me turn off the lights so 325 00:23:38 --> 00:23:43 that you can see it a little bit better, hopefully. 326 00:23:43 --> 00:23:52 327 00:23:52 --> 00:23:57 You can see lots of lines in the case of neon because we have 328 00:23:57 --> 00:24:00 lots of different occupied states. 329 00:24:00 --> 00:24:05 The glasses that I have actually are doing a phenomenal 330 00:24:05 --> 00:24:10 job in resolving those very closely spaced lines. 331 00:24:10 --> 00:24:15 I must have a better quality glass today. 332 00:24:15 --> 00:24:35 333 00:24:35 --> 00:24:40 And, if you look at the side walls, you can see that I drew 334 00:24:40 --> 00:24:44 one of those lines. One of those emission lines is 335 00:24:44 --> 00:24:48 at 632 nanometers, which is the emission line of a 336 00:24:48 --> 00:24:52 helium neon laser. But it is really a neon 337 00:24:52 --> 00:24:56 transition that we will talk about in a moment. 338 00:24:56 --> 00:25:01 I drew it as very thick on the board. 339 00:25:01 --> 00:25:05 Because when I looked at the discharge lamp and drew that 340 00:25:05 --> 00:25:10 picture, my glasses did not resolve those lines so very 341 00:25:10 --> 00:25:13 well. And so that one looked really 342 00:25:13 --> 00:25:16 thick to me. At least my glasses, 343 00:25:16 --> 00:25:20 I can really see lots and lots of discrete lines. 344 00:25:20 --> 00:25:23 But it is this transition, 632 nanometers, 345 00:25:23 --> 00:25:27 that is the output of the helium neon laser, 346 00:25:27 --> 00:25:32 which is the red laser that I use sometimes in the lecture, 347 00:25:32 --> 00:25:37 here, to point. It is the basis of the laser 348 00:25:37 --> 00:25:43 that is used in the grocery stores to scan the prices on 349 00:25:43 --> 00:25:46 your items. And it turns out that what is 350 00:25:46 --> 00:25:50 going on, here, is the following. 351 00:25:50 --> 00:25:55 If you look on the side walls, we have neon in the ground 352 00:25:55 --> 00:26:00 state before we turn the discharge on. 353 00:26:00 --> 00:26:04 And then, when we turn the discharge on, 354 00:26:04 --> 00:26:11 that pumps energy into the neon atoms such that one of those 355 00:26:11 --> 00:26:17 electrons, the 2p electron, gets promoted into the 5s 356 00:26:17 --> 00:26:20 state. And then, of course, 357 00:26:20 --> 00:26:26 that atom wants to relax. And so here it comes again. 358 00:26:26 --> 00:26:33 That 5s state relaxes. That electron relaxes to the 3p 359 00:26:33 --> 00:26:35 state. And it is actually that 360 00:26:35 --> 00:26:41 transition that occurs at 632.8 nanometers, the basis of the 361 00:26:41 --> 00:26:45 helium neon laser. It is that transition, 362 00:26:45 --> 00:26:50 from the 5s to the 3p. It is not all the way down, 363 00:26:50 --> 00:26:54 but ultimately, of course, that state relaxes. 364 00:26:54 --> 00:27:00 But what is going on in the helium neon laser? 365 00:27:00 --> 00:27:05 Well, in the helium neon laser, we have a discharge ignited 366 00:27:05 --> 00:27:10 where we have a lot of neon atoms here in this excited 367 00:27:10 --> 00:27:16 state, with the one electron in the 5s state right as I show 368 00:27:16 --> 00:27:18 you. And that is emitting, 369 00:27:18 --> 00:27:24 a photon comes out. But what is happening here is 370 00:27:24 --> 00:27:30 that the photon that is emitted is able to, because of the 371 00:27:30 --> 00:27:36 construction of this laser, contact or to interact with 372 00:27:36 --> 00:27:41 another neon atom in this same excited state, 373 00:27:41 --> 00:27:48 that 2p 5 5s state. That photon interacts with this 374 00:27:48 --> 00:27:53 excited atom. When it interacts with that 375 00:27:53 --> 00:27:58 excited atom, what happens is that the photon 376 00:27:58 --> 00:28:04 stimulates that excited atom to actually emit a photon of the 377 00:28:04 --> 00:28:10 same energy. This photon stimulates this 378 00:28:10 --> 00:28:14 excited atom to release its energy right at that time. 379 00:28:14 --> 00:28:18 The result is that you have two photons coming out. 380 00:28:18 --> 00:28:23 They are going to come out in the same direction and they are 381 00:28:23 --> 00:28:26 going to be what is called coherent. 382 00:28:26 --> 00:28:31 That is, their phases are going to match. 383 00:28:31 --> 00:28:36 If you think now of the photon as a wave, they are going to be 384 00:28:36 --> 00:28:39 coherent. And the result is that you are 385 00:28:39 --> 00:28:44 going to have some radiation that is going to be twice as 386 00:28:44 --> 00:28:47 intense because they are coherent. 387 00:28:47 --> 00:28:51 They are in phase. And then, what happens is that 388 00:28:51 --> 00:28:55 these two photons, they each then interact with 389 00:28:55 --> 00:29:01 another neon atom in this same excited state. 390 00:29:01 --> 00:29:06 And each of those photons stimulates another atom to emit 391 00:29:06 --> 00:29:09 photons. And the result is now that you 392 00:29:09 --> 00:29:14 have four photons being emitted, the same frequency, 393 00:29:14 --> 00:29:17 same direction, and same phase. 394 00:29:17 --> 00:29:22 And it is in this way that we amplify the light in any kind of 395 00:29:22 --> 00:29:25 laser. This is what is going on, 396 00:29:25 --> 00:29:30 this process of simulated emission. 397 00:29:30 --> 00:29:34 Where you have a photon that now is exactly the frequency of 398 00:29:34 --> 00:29:40 the energy difference of the transition that you are going to 399 00:29:40 --> 00:29:44 make in this excited atom. This stimulates that atom to 400 00:29:44 --> 00:29:48 emit a photon. The two photons then come off 401 00:29:48 --> 00:29:51 coherently. And then, these two interact 402 00:29:51 --> 00:29:55 with two other atoms. Now you have four photons that 403 00:29:55 --> 00:29:58 are coming off. That is the process of 404 00:29:58 --> 00:30:03 amplification in any type of laser. 405 00:30:03 --> 00:30:08 406 00:30:08 --> 00:30:13 Of course, in order to make this work, you have to have a 407 00:30:13 --> 00:30:19 lot of these excited neon atoms around because you have to be 408 00:30:19 --> 00:30:25 able to have a photon interact with them before they just emit 409 00:30:25 --> 00:30:30 spontaneously. This is stimulated emission. 410 00:30:30 --> 00:30:34 The other kind of emission that we were talking about is 411 00:30:34 --> 00:30:36 spontaneous emission. In other words, 412 00:30:36 --> 00:30:40 you have to have a high concentration of these excited 413 00:30:40 --> 00:30:44 neon atoms so that the photons that are originally emitted 414 00:30:44 --> 00:30:48 here, by just spontaneous emission, can interact with 415 00:30:48 --> 00:30:52 those excited state neon atoms and stimulate the emission and 416 00:30:52 --> 00:30:57 get this whole process rolling. In order to produce a whole lot 417 00:30:57 --> 00:31:01 of those excited neon atoms, what happens is we add in a 418 00:31:01 --> 00:31:06 little bit of helium. It turns out that in helium 419 00:31:06 --> 00:31:10 there are some excited states that are just, 420 00:31:10 --> 00:31:13 by accident, at the same energy as this 421 00:31:13 --> 00:31:17 excited state of neon. And the helium actually 422 00:31:17 --> 00:31:21 transfers its energy to the neon, into this state, 423 00:31:21 --> 00:31:25 and maintains, then, that very high population 424 00:31:25 --> 00:31:30 of neon atoms here in this excited state. 425 00:31:30 --> 00:31:32 That is the function of the helium. 426 00:31:32 --> 00:31:37 It is just the energy transfer from the helium excited state to 427 00:31:37 --> 00:31:42 the neon excited state. It keeps the population of the 428 00:31:42 --> 00:31:46 neon atoms really high. The helium, you don't see that 429 00:31:46 --> 00:31:49 emission. That is just a helper in this 430 00:31:49 --> 00:31:53 device. It is the neon transition that 431 00:31:53 --> 00:31:59 you are looking at here. That was just a short story 432 00:31:59 --> 00:32:06 about the usefulness of knowing about the energy levels in atoms 433 00:32:06 --> 00:32:14 and how ultimately you can make a practical device because you 434 00:32:14 --> 00:32:20 know something about the energy levels of your atoms. 435 00:32:20 --> 00:32:25 Well, that is going to finish up, right now, 436 00:32:25 --> 00:32:32 our discussion of atoms. And now, it is time to move 437 00:32:32 --> 00:32:36 onto one of the very important parts of chemistry, 438 00:32:36 --> 00:32:42 and that is chemical bonds and the combination of atoms to form 439 00:32:42 --> 00:32:46 a chemical bond. That is what we are going to 440 00:32:46 --> 00:32:48 start talking about, now. 441 00:32:48 --> 00:32:53 Today, what we are going to do is just talk about the 442 00:32:53 --> 00:32:58 fundamental interactions that are present in every chemical 443 00:32:58 --> 00:33:02 bond. Let's start with that. 444 00:33:02 --> 00:33:07 Let me come over here while the lights are warming up so you can 445 00:33:07 --> 00:33:12 see that board. Suppose we have a hydrogen atom 446 00:33:12 --> 00:33:14 here, nucleus a, plus charge. 447 00:33:14 --> 00:33:19 And it, of course, has electron a attached to it. 448 00:33:19 --> 00:33:23 And way out here, we have nucleus b and electron 449 00:33:23 --> 00:33:30 b that is attached to it. And they are very far apart. 450 00:33:30 --> 00:33:34 And so, in this case, where they are very far apart, 451 00:33:34 --> 00:33:39 the energy of interaction is just the energy of interaction 452 00:33:39 --> 00:33:44 between the electron and the nucleus, the electron-nuclear 453 00:33:44 --> 00:33:46 attraction. Here it is, the 454 00:33:46 --> 00:33:52 electron-nuclear attraction. However, as we bring these two 455 00:33:52 --> 00:33:56 hydrogen atoms together, at some point this electron 456 00:33:56 --> 00:34:01 that was only attracted to nucleus a is now begins to 457 00:34:01 --> 00:34:06 experience an attraction with nucleus b. 458 00:34:06 --> 00:34:10 And this electron that was attracted only to nucleus b 459 00:34:10 --> 00:34:14 experiences an interaction whereby it is now attracted to 460 00:34:14 --> 00:34:17 nucleus a. And that kind of mutual 461 00:34:17 --> 00:34:22 attractive interaction then brings those two nuclei closer 462 00:34:22 --> 00:34:25 together. However, at the same time, 463 00:34:25 --> 00:34:29 when you bring those two nuclei closer together, 464 00:34:29 --> 00:34:34 you are bringing the electrons closer together. 465 00:34:34 --> 00:34:38 And so there is an electron-electron repulsion that 466 00:34:38 --> 00:34:40 is present. In addition, 467 00:34:40 --> 00:34:45 as you bring these two nuclei together, what is happening here 468 00:34:45 --> 00:34:49 is you are having a nuclear-nuclear repulsion. 469 00:34:49 --> 00:34:54 A chemical bond is really the sum of these three interactions 470 00:34:54 --> 00:35:00 and the interplay between these three interactions. 471 00:35:00 --> 00:35:05 That is what we want to try to look at and try to understand. 472 00:35:05 --> 00:35:10 How are we going to do that? Well, the first thing I am 473 00:35:10 --> 00:35:15 going to do is I am going to draw an energy of interaction as 474 00:35:15 --> 00:35:21 a function of the distance between the two hydrogen atoms. 475 00:35:21 --> 00:35:26 I am going to take two hydrogen atoms and I am going to call the 476 00:35:26 --> 00:35:32 distance between them r. Now, I have changed my 477 00:35:32 --> 00:35:36 definition of r. r is the distance between the 478 00:35:36 --> 00:35:39 two nuclei. It is no longer the distance 479 00:35:39 --> 00:35:43 between the nucleus and the electron. 480 00:35:43 --> 00:35:46 I have just changed my definition of r. 481 00:35:46 --> 00:35:51 And I am going to plot the energy of interaction as a 482 00:35:51 --> 00:35:55 function of that distance between the two nuclei. 483 00:35:55 --> 00:36:00 Here is my energy of interaction. 484 00:36:00 --> 00:36:04 There is going to be a zero of energy, here. 485 00:36:04 --> 00:36:08 I am going to plot this as a function of r, 486 00:36:08 --> 00:36:12 and the plot is going to look like this. 487 00:36:12 --> 00:36:15 Way out here, where r is large, 488 00:36:15 --> 00:36:19 I have two separated hydrogen atoms. 489 00:36:19 --> 00:36:24 The energy, here, is minus 2,624 kilojoules per 490 00:36:24 --> 00:36:27 mole. That is what this energy of 491 00:36:27 --> 00:36:31 interaction is, here. 492 00:36:31 --> 00:36:35 Now, as I bring these two hydrogen atoms together, 493 00:36:35 --> 00:36:40 what happens is that this energy is going to decrease. 494 00:36:40 --> 00:36:44 And it is going to keep decreasing until we get to some 495 00:36:44 --> 00:36:47 point. And then, as r gets even 496 00:36:47 --> 00:36:51 smaller, that energy of interaction is going to 497 00:36:51 --> 00:36:56 skyrocket and go to infinity. Starting about here somewhere, 498 00:36:56 --> 00:37:02 where the energy of interaction is less, is more negative than 499 00:37:02 --> 00:37:08 the separated hydrogen atoms. Well, what that means is that 500 00:37:08 --> 00:37:12 we are forming a chemical bond. The two hydrogen atoms are more 501 00:37:12 --> 00:37:15 stable then when they are separated. 502 00:37:15 --> 00:37:19 The two hydrogen atoms are bound as soon as this energy of 503 00:37:19 --> 00:37:24 interaction gets more negative than the separated atom limit. 504 00:37:24 --> 00:37:26 And it keeps getting more negative. 505 00:37:26 --> 00:37:29 And, of course, the value of r at which that 506 00:37:29 --> 00:37:33 energy of interaction is a maximum negative number, 507 00:37:33 --> 00:37:38 well, that is the equilibrium bond length. 508 00:37:38 --> 00:37:45 This is the most stable value of r at which the energy is the 509 00:37:45 --> 00:37:49 lowest. It is the most stable 510 00:37:49 --> 00:37:54 configuration. In the case of hydrogen, 511 00:37:54 --> 00:38:00 that value of r is 0.74 angstroms. 512 00:38:00 --> 00:38:05 In this potential energy curve, as it is often called, 513 00:38:05 --> 00:38:11 everywhere where this energy of interaction is lower than the 514 00:38:11 --> 00:38:15 separated hydrogen atom limit, everywhere here, 515 00:38:15 --> 00:38:21 this is called the attractive region of the interaction 516 00:38:21 --> 00:38:24 potential. It is attractive because the 517 00:38:24 --> 00:38:32 hydrogen atoms bound are more stable than they are separated. 518 00:38:32 --> 00:38:34 Or, the hydrogen atoms are bound. 519 00:38:34 --> 00:38:40 They are more stable than the two hydrogen atoms separated. 520 00:38:40 --> 00:38:45 We call this the attractive region of the potential energy 521 00:38:45 --> 00:38:47 curve. We also call this region, 522 00:38:47 --> 00:38:51 this attractive region, we call that the well. 523 00:38:51 --> 00:38:56 And the well depth, here, from the bottom to the 524 00:38:56 --> 00:39:01 separated hydrogen atom limit, if you measure the energy from 525 00:39:01 --> 00:39:04 the bottom up, that energy is the bond 526 00:39:04 --> 00:39:10 association energy. We are going to call it delta E 527 00:39:10 --> 00:39:14 sub d, from the bottom here to the 528 00:39:14 --> 00:39:18 separated hydrogen atom limit. That is the bond energy. 529 00:39:18 --> 00:39:23 432 kilojoules per mole is the energy that you have to put into 530 00:39:23 --> 00:39:28 the H two molecule to separate it. 531 00:39:28 --> 00:39:32 You have to get it from the bottom of this well to the 532 00:39:32 --> 00:39:35 separated hydrogen atom limit here. 533 00:39:35 --> 00:39:39 Now, you can also see, here, as you push those two 534 00:39:39 --> 00:39:43 hydrogen atoms even closer together than the equilibrium 535 00:39:43 --> 00:39:48 bond length, you can see that the energy is going back up. 536 00:39:48 --> 00:39:52 And at some point, if you push the two hydrogen 537 00:39:52 --> 00:39:57 atoms close enough together such that the energy is equal to that 538 00:39:57 --> 00:40:02 of the separated hydrogen atom, it then becomes greater than 539 00:40:02 --> 00:40:07 that of the separated hydrogen atom. 540 00:40:07 --> 00:40:10 From this value of r on, the hydrogen atoms are no 541 00:40:10 --> 00:40:14 longer bound because their energy is greater than the 542 00:40:14 --> 00:40:18 separated hydrogen atom limit. We call this part of the 543 00:40:18 --> 00:40:22 potential energy of interaction the repulsive part. 544 00:40:22 --> 00:40:26 In other words, as you push the two hydrogen 545 00:40:26 --> 00:40:30 atoms closer together, they form a bond. 546 00:40:30 --> 00:40:36 But if you push them too close, they are going to fly apart. 547 00:40:36 --> 00:40:42 They are no longer bound. This is the general potential 548 00:40:42 --> 00:40:46 energy of interaction for every chemical bond. 549 00:40:46 --> 00:40:51 Every single bond has this general shape. 550 00:40:51 --> 00:40:55 That is important. But that shape is really a 551 00:40:55 --> 00:41:01 consequence of these three interactions that I talked about 552 00:41:01 --> 00:41:07 when we started this problem, here. 553 00:41:07 --> 00:41:11 And so, what I want to try to do is now try to dissect that 554 00:41:11 --> 00:41:17 curve into the three components that give rise to that potential 555 00:41:17 --> 00:41:21 energy of interaction, that dependence as a function 556 00:41:21 --> 00:41:25 of r. I want to pull that apart. 557 00:41:25 --> 00:41:30 558 00:41:30 --> 00:41:36 This energy of interaction is the sum of the nuclear 559 00:41:36 --> 00:41:41 repulsion. Pushing the nuclei too close 560 00:41:41 --> 00:41:47 together, there is a repulsive interaction. 561 00:41:47 --> 00:41:51 That is one of the interactions. 562 00:41:51 --> 00:41:58 Plus, the electron-nuclear attraction is the attraction 563 00:41:58 --> 00:42:07 between the electron and the nucleus on which it came in. 564 00:42:07 --> 00:42:11 And also between the electron and the other nucleus. 565 00:42:11 --> 00:42:14 That is the electron-nuclear attraction. 566 00:42:14 --> 00:42:17 Plus the electron-electron repulsive. 567 00:42:17 --> 00:42:21 Well, when you bring two hydrogen atoms together those 568 00:42:21 --> 00:42:25 electrons are going to repel. That is the energy of 569 00:42:25 --> 00:42:28 interaction. It is the sum of those three 570 00:42:28 --> 00:42:34 fundamental interactions. But what I want to do is figure 571 00:42:34 --> 00:42:39 out an r dependence for each one of these interactions. 572 00:42:39 --> 00:42:44 And the sum of that r dependence should give me a 573 00:42:44 --> 00:42:48 shape that looks like this. I want to see which 574 00:42:48 --> 00:42:53 interactions are important at what values of r. 575 00:42:53 --> 00:42:56 Let me start. Let's start with the 576 00:42:56 --> 00:43:01 nuclear-nuclear repulsion here. If I wanted an r dependence for 577 00:43:01 --> 00:43:04 what that nuclear-nuclear repulsion looked like, 578 00:43:04 --> 00:43:06 what would that be? 579 00:43:06 --> 00:43:11 580 00:43:11 --> 00:43:14 Coulomb force. It is the repulsive Coulomb 581 00:43:14 --> 00:43:18 interaction. It is e squared over 4 pi 582 00:43:18 --> 00:43:22 epsilon nought r. 583 00:43:22 --> 00:43:27 This is just two like charges that are repelling. 584 00:43:27 --> 00:43:32 And so now let me draw that repulsive interaction as a 585 00:43:32 --> 00:43:37 function of r on an energy level diagram. 586 00:43:37 --> 00:43:40 Here is my energy of interaction. 587 00:43:40 --> 00:43:44 It is a function of r. There is going to be a zero 588 00:43:44 --> 00:43:48 here. And this repulsive interaction 589 00:43:48 --> 00:43:51 is going to be positive everywhere. 590 00:43:51 --> 00:43:56 It is going to be infinite here and a one over r 591 00:43:56 --> 00:44:01 dependence coming down. This is the Coulomb 592 00:44:01 --> 00:44:05 interaction. This is the nuclear-nuclear 593 00:44:05 --> 00:44:09 repulsion. That is what it looks like as a 594 00:44:09 --> 00:44:12 function of r. That is one component. 595 00:44:12 --> 00:44:16 Now, what about the other components here? 596 00:44:16 --> 00:44:21 Well, it turns out I have no simple way of estimating what 597 00:44:21 --> 00:44:28 the r dependence is for the electron-nuclear attraction. 598 00:44:28 --> 00:44:32 I have no simple way of estimating what the r dependence 599 00:44:32 --> 00:44:35 is for the electron-electron repulsion. 600 00:44:35 --> 00:44:39 And I have no simple way of doing that for the sum of those 601 00:44:39 --> 00:44:42 two terms. Actually, the sum of these two 602 00:44:42 --> 00:44:46 terms, I am going to call the electron interactions. 603 00:44:46 --> 00:44:50 Each one of these terms involves the electrons. 604 00:44:50 --> 00:44:54 The is the electron-electron repulsion, electron-nuclear 605 00:44:54 --> 00:44:57 attraction. This term does not have any 606 00:44:57 --> 00:45:03 electrons in it. I have no simple way of telling 607 00:45:03 --> 00:45:09 you or estimating what the r dependence is of the sum of 608 00:45:09 --> 00:45:13 these two terms. However, what I can do is 609 00:45:13 --> 00:45:18 figure out what the energy is for the sum of those two 610 00:45:18 --> 00:45:25 interactions at two extremes. I can tell you what the energy 611 00:45:25 --> 00:45:30 is at r equal infinity, and then I can tell you what it 612 00:45:30 --> 00:45:35 is at r equal zero. And, therefore, 613 00:45:35 --> 00:45:38 on this plot, I am going to come in with a 614 00:45:38 --> 00:45:43 value for r equal infinity and a value for r equal zero. 615 00:45:43 --> 00:45:48 I am going to draw a straight line as an estimate for the r 616 00:45:48 --> 00:45:51 dependence. Then I am going to add them up 617 00:45:51 --> 00:45:56 and see if the result looks, in fact, like this energy of 618 00:45:56 --> 00:46:02 interaction that I drew for you. And so that is what I am going 619 00:46:02 --> 00:46:06 to have to do on Friday. I will see you on Wednesday, 620 00:46:06 --> 46:09 if not sooner.