Chemistry Notes

I shall be posting here resources which will help you to understand better and in depth the concepts we study in our course.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Bonding lessons

Explanation of ionic, covalent and metallic bond in lecture of Khan academy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGA8sRwqIFg&feature=related


Here are some interesting bonding lessons with good animations:


http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/bondingmenu.html#top

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/electronsandbonds/intro1.htm

http://www.ausetute.com.au/intermof.html

http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/molecules/index.htm

A good site for Lewis structures and shapes of molecules with quiz questions:

http://grandinetti.org/Teaching/Chem121/Lectures/LewisDot/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3FCHVlSZc4

When the molecule is polar?

http://web.fccj.org/~ethall/2045/polarity/polarity.htm


Intermolecular forces determine many properties of the substances. Read here to learn more about their nature:

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/bonding/vdw.html#top

Some confidence building questions on intermolecular forces:

http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/c123/intermol.html


Relationship between structure and properties:

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/structures/ionicstruct.html#top

Water and its "unusual" properties!

http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/sitemap.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnx9thXySGw&context=C39dffccADOEgsToPDskKImjsWWDQRMryyVdchJ21H

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVCYlST6mYQ



Phase changes occur without changing temperature:

http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/mechanics/energy/heatAndTemperature/changesOfPhase/changeOfState.html


To read about the hybridisation you can browse this site:

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/basicorg/bondmenu.html#top


Allotropic forms of Carbon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_gateway/chemical/nanochemistryrev1.shtml

http://www.chemicool.com/elements/carbon.html


What are the buckyballs (fullerenes)? How were they discovered and many interesting facts about this new allotropic form of carbon you can read on the following sites?

http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/buckball/buckball.html

http://mathforum.org/alejandre/workshops/buckyball.html

And...what is graphene?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14730689