Lectures (Video)
- 1. How Do You Know?
- 2. Force Laws, Lewis Structures and Resonance
- 3. Double Minima, Earnshaw's Theorem and Plum-Puddings
- 4. Coping with Smallness and Scanning Probe Microscopy
- 5. X-Ray Diffraction
- 6. Seeing Bonds by Electron Difference Density
- 7. Quantum Mechanical Kinetic Energy
- 8. One-Dimensional Wave Functions
- 9. Chladni Figures and One-Electron Atoms
- 10. Reality and the Orbital Approximation
- 11. Orbital Correction and Plum-Pudding Molecules
- 12. Overlap and Atom-Pair Bonds
- 13. Overlap and Energy-Match
- 14. Checking Hybridization Theory with XH3
- 15. Chemical Reactivity: SOMO, HOMO, and LUMO
- 16. Recognizing Functional Groups
- 17. Reaction Analogies and Carbonyl Reactivity
- 18. Amide, Carboxylic Acid and Alkyl Lithium
- 19. Oxygen and the Chemical Revolution (Beginning to 1789)
- 20. Rise of the Atomic Theory (1790-1805)
- 21. Berzelius to Liebig and Wöhler (1805-1832)
- 22. Radical and Type Theories (1832-1850)
- 23. Valence Theory and Constitutional Structure (1858)
- 24. Determining Chemical Structure by Isomer Counting (1869)
- 25. Models in 3D Space (1869-1877); Optical Isomers
- 26. Van't Hoff's Tetrahedral Carbon and Chirality
- 27. Communicating Molecular Structure in Diagrams and Words
- 28. Stereochemical Nomenclature; Racemization and Resolution
- 29. Preparing Single Enantiomers and the Mechanism of Optical Rotation
- 30. Esomeprazole as an Example of Drug Testing and Usage
- 31. Preparing Single Enantiomers and Conformational Energy
- 32. Stereotopicity and Baeyer Strain Theory
- 33. Conformational Energy and Molecular Mechanics
- 34. Sharpless Oxidation Catalysts and the Conformation of Cycloalkanes
- 35. Understanding Molecular Structure and Energy through Standard Bonds
- 36. Bond Energies, the Boltzmann Factor and Entropy
- 37. Potential Energy Surfaces, Transition State Theory
Introductory Organic Chemistry - Lecture 3
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Lecture 3 - Double Minima, Earnshaw's Theorem and Plum-Puddings
Continuing the discussion of Lewis structures and chemical forces from the previous lecture, Professor McBride introduces the double-well potential of the ozone molecule and its structural equilibrium. The inability for inverse-square force laws to account for stable arrangements of charged particles is prescribed by Earnshaw's Theorem, which may be visualized by means of lines of force. J.J. Thomson circumvented Earnshaw's prohibition on structure by postulating a "plum-pudding" atom. When Rutherford showed that the nucleus was a point, Thomson had to conclude that Coulomb's law was invalid at small distances.
Prof. J. Michael McBride
CHEM 125: Freshman Organic Chemistry, Fall 2008 (Yale University: Open Yale) http://oyc.yale.edu Date accessed: 2009-11-11 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA |
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Supplementary lecture material is listed below.1. What's Wrong with Lewis Structures
2. What are Force Laws?
3. Earnshaw via Lines of Force
4. Shell Structure for Charged Balls in 2D
5. Dealing with Graphs - Lesson 1
6. Drill on multidimensional plotting
7. Problem Set
