CHEM 2443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Electronegativity, Uncertainty Principle, Electron Shell

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Electrons, waves & orbitals: atoms are discreet entities that differ from one another by the number of protons, neutrons, and electrons that make up each atom. Protons and neutrons are found in the nucleus. Reactions involving organic molecules do not involve transfer, loss, or gain of protons or neutrons. Chemical reactions involve transfer of electrons: the electrons in a molecule are different in location/nucleus location in molecules than they are in atoms, electrons are said to reside in orbitals. The motion of electrons has some characteristics of wave motion: the motion of an electron is expressed by a wave equation, which has a series of solutions and each solution is called a wavefunction. Each electron may be described by a wavefunction whose magnitude varies from point to point in space: a particular solution to the schrodinger wave equation, for a given type of electron, is determined by the equation: H is a mathematical operator called the hamilton operator.

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