9.3 Hybridization | General Chemistry

hybridization going to be the topic of this lesson and we'll actually introduce valence bond theory to start which kind of talks about atomic orbitals overlapping during bond creation and then we're going to talk about the different hybrid orbitals sp sp2 sp3 hybrid orbitals and even some of the more complex ones for expanded octets and we'll talk about how you look at a lewis structure and know the hybridization of an atom as well as you know look at a bond and know what atomic orbitals or hybrid orbitals are overlapping in the creation of that bond my name is chad and welcome to chad's prep where my goal is to take the stress out of learning science now in addition to high school and college science prep we also do mcat dat and oat prep as well you'll find those courses at chadsprep.com now this lesson is part of my new general chemistry playlist it covers an entire year of general chemistry i'm releasing several lessons a week throughout the school year so if you want to be notified every time i post a new one subscribe to the channel click the bell notification all right so we're going to start with talking about valence bond theory and valence bond theory says that uh atoms use their unpaired electrons to form bonds that's the first part and so you know each of two atoms are going to chip in an unpaired electron and that pair of electrons is now going to be shared to create a bond but it says a little more than that as well it says that there's orbitals the atomic orbitals from both of those atoms overlapping in the process of bond creation so if we take a look at say a molecule of h2 and these are the three molecules take a look at here so with h2 we can see that each of these hydrogens only have a single electron one s1 and so it has to be that unpaired electron in the 1s orbital that is involved in bond creation and so if we look at an s orbital an s orbital is spherical in shape and so for both hydrogens their s orbitals are going to overlap and they're going to have the two shared electrons in these overlapping orbitals and that's kind of what valence bond theory looks at as the creation of a bond so we've got a nucleus there and a nucleus there and then overlapping orbitals sharing those electrons now in the case of hf it's a little more complicated because even though again hydrogen is 1s1 well fluorine 1s2 2s2 2p5 and if we draw out the valence electrons in the 2s and the 2p we see the unpaired electron is in one of the p orbitals and so hydrogen still got that 1s orbital that's going to be involved in bond creation but the fluorine is going to have a p orbital overlapping with that the one with the unpaired electron in it and again overlapping orbitals is going to lead to the creation of a bond according to valence bond theory here with the sharing of two electrons in those overlapping orbitals and so in this case it's a 1s orbital from hydrogen overlapping with a 2p orbital from fluorine and finally we'll go to a fluorine molecule an f2 molecule and in this case both fluorines have that unpaired electron in that 2p orbital so it'll be overlapping p orbitals in both cases so and in this case that's the overlapping orbitals leading to the creation of the bond in a molecule of f2 once again according to valence bond theory now we'll talk about molecular orbital theory in the very last lesson in this chapter uh which will kind of build on valence bond theory and then take it to a whole new level and it turns out it's actually a better depiction of reality but valence bond theory uh will suffice to say uh will will fit for most of our purposes in this chapter and many of you actually won't even probably be on the hook for molecular orbital theory in your general chemistry course so i'd say it's probably 50 50 for most students so uh cool so this is valence bond theory and we want to introduce this because we'll find out that you know when you've got an atom that's making more than one bond the original atomic orbitals like just an s orbital are just a p orbital so those are not actually going to be sufficient to get the bond angles we now recognize in the molecular geometries we've learned about like again linear trigonal planar tetrahedral so on and so forth and so it turns out if it's not using the original atomic orbitals to make bonds to you know get these overlapping orbitals then what is it using well it turns out it's going to be using these hybrid orbitals which are going to be combinations of the different s and p and the expanded octets the d d-orbitals even get involved as well so let's take a look at that all right so we're going to take a look at methane here ch4 and use it to kind of describe why this need for hybrid orbitals even even comes about uh we'll find out the atomic orbitals carbon has available here are just not going to be sufficient to form a molecule of ch4 so first of all we've got a couple of problems we're going to encounter and the first one we're going to encounter is that carbon nodus 1s2 2s22p2 so it's got four valence electrons and if we look only two of them are unpaired and valence bond theory says that again an atom is going to use its unpaired electrons to make bonds well that would mean that would seem to imply that carbon's only going to make two bonds but we know that carbon routinely makes four bonds again only having four valence electrons it's four electrons short of a field octet which is why we typically find it making four bonds well again valence bond theory here is having a problem and an issue with this well valence bond theory does get around this and it turns out that we're gonna undergo what's called a promotion so in this case we're gonna promote one of these electrons here up into a higher energy orbital so just like when you get a promotion within a company you get a higher position in the company well here this electron is going to end up in a higher energy atomic orbital okay so so far so good we now have four unpaired electrons and carbon is now ready to make four bonds so now we're going to have a problem though we know methane so it's got four electron domains we know the molecular geometry is going to be tetrahedral we know all the bond angles are 109.5 and that's where we're going to start having a problem here so let's say we take a look at these four unpaired electrons and the orbitals they're in and i'm just going to ignore the s orbital for a minute because uh it's spherical and it could really be oriented anywhere but these p orbitals are going to be the telling part that'll help us kind of identify the issue and so if we have one of these p orbitals is going to be vertical one of them is going to be horizontal and will be coming out of the board they're all oriented 90 degrees apart one on the x-axis one on the y-axis one on the z-axis we often refer to them as px py and pz so but one of them will be oriented that way another one's going to be oriented that way and then again another one that i won't need to draw that'll be coming out of the board but even if i just look at these two right here well again that's where these unpaired electrons are at least three of them are in these p orbitals and if these are the orbitals that are overlapping with the s orbitals the 1s orbitals of hydrogen so we could kind of see where those bonds are going to form and say one of them could form on either side here so we'd have a hydrogen bonding right there and maybe another one right here and have another hydrogen overlapping with part of the p orbital there and the problem we get though is that this angle right here in this bond to the hydrogen here and the bond of the hydrogen here is going to be a right angle 90 degrees and so that is a huge issue because we know that the bond angles in methane are not 90 degrees we can actually measure them they come out to be 109.5 just like we've predicted with our molecular geometries and they're not 90. and so what the conclusion we come to is that these p orbitals can't be the orbitals that are involved in overlapping to create these bonds again according to valence bond theory and so it turns out what carbon is actually doing here is carbon is actually going to take all of his orbitals and he's going to mix and combine them in this process we call hybridization and this is going to seem very weird so a couple things we should talk about so first of all where do the shapes you know p orbitals being dumbbell shaped and s orbitals being spherical shaped where does that even come from well one they're solutions to the schrodinger equation so but they themselves are equations they're three dimensional wave functions we call them but they're just mathematical equations three-dimensional equations and so if you take these equations it turns out you can combine them in a process we call linear combination but just think of it as akin to like adding these wave functions in different ways and we're going to mix and match and add them in different ways combine them in different ways and it turns out if you combine four different wave functions i.e four different orbitals you can combine them four different ways and it leads to the creation of four brand new orbitals and in this case it turns out they're going to be a little higher energy than the s orbital but lower energy than the p orbitals because they're made from both and we're not going to get crafty on the name here they're made of 1s and 3p orbitals so we're just going to call them sp3 hybrids and the number of orbitals you mix together to create the hybrids that's how many hybrids you're going to create and so being sp3 hybridized you have to have four of them and that's where the electrons now reside in these sp3 hybrid orbitals and if you take a look at what an sp3 hybrid orbital actually looks like so it looks like kind of a fat p orbital on one side and a rather small diminished one on the other side so but that's what an sp3 hybrid looks like and again we have four of these and let me draw a second one in right here and it's actually these that are overlapping with the s orbitals of our hydrogen atoms and guess what the angle between these lovely sp3 hybrids is magically it's 109.5 degrees now there's two more of these sp3 hybrids but i'm going to really struggle to draw them because again the tetrahedral shape is is three-dimensional but one of them would be coming out of the board over here and then one of them would be going back into the board and i'm just not the artist to be able to draw those but rest assured i've only drawn two out of the four sp3 hybrids and they're all 109.5 degrees apart and so this is kind of what gives credence to this idea of hybridization here is that the different linear combinations we call them that we can do with the s and p orbitals would lead to four brand new wave functions that do point indeed 109.5 degrees apart so and that's what we're going to use in the case of methane here now if you take a look here it turns out you can simply look at the number of electron domains and know exactly what the hybridization is it turns out if you've got four electron domains well that means you're going to need four hybrid orbitals one for every single electron domain well if you need four hybrid orbitals then you need to mix four of your original atomic orbitals and so in this case an s a p a p and a p and your sp3 hybridized so if you have four electron domains your sp3 hybridized done okay so if you have three electron domains well it turns out you have another way of combining these and with three electron domains it turns out you wouldn't need to you'd still use the lowest energy s orbital first and then you'd use two out of the three p orbitals but you'd leave the last one alone and in that case that's not what methane does but in that case you'd end up just combining three of the orbitals and then leaving one of the p orbitals alone and so in this case because you just mixed an s and two of the ps we just refer to the hybrids as sp2 hybridized and then you just have an electron in an unhybridized p orbital a plane p orbital that's not part of the hybrids and we say unhybridized in that case uh and it magically turns out that these three different sp2 hybrid orbitals would be exactly 120 degrees apart part of a trigonal planar electron domain geometry and so it turns out if you have three electron domains you're going to be sp2 hybridized you'll have three of those sp2 hybrid orbitals and they will magically point 120 degrees apart so well turns out carbon has one more option here and carbon let's say only has two electron domains well if carbon only has two electron domains well then he only needs two hybrid orbitals and if he only needs two hybrid orbitals in the end well then you only needed to mix two of the original atomic orbitals and you'll always start with the s the lowest energy one and then it only needs to mix in one other p and so instead of mixing the s with all three p's or mixing the s with two out of the three p's in this case he's just going to mix the s with one of the p's and we won't get crafty on the name we'll just call those sp hybrids and then we'll have two unhybridized p orbitals in that case we'll kind of see where this fits into place when we start looking at multiple bonds and sigma and pi bonds uh in the next lesson now in this case in in this example with methane carbons fate looks like this he was sp3 hybridized with four electron domains and so he had four sp3 hybrid orbitals and he had no unhybridized p orbitals left so but if you took a look at something uh you know maybe a case with carbon with three electron domains like maybe we take a look at a molecule of formaldehyde here and this carbon right here just has three electron domains he's bonded to three atoms he has no lone pairs so with three electron domains he would be sp2 hybridized and in the end he would look like this and it turns out with three electron domains one sp2 hybrid orbital for each of the domains and then we'd find out that that p orbital has a special purpose in making the double the second of the double bond cool and then finally sp hybridization happens when you have two domains we might see this like in a molecule of carbon monoxide in the case of carbon monoxide here carbon again only has two electron domains one is the atomy's monitor over here in auction and the other is the lone pair and in this case being sp hybridized he's going to have two sp hybrid orbitals one for each domain and so one's going to be used in bonding to the oxygen but the other one is going to be where the lone pair on the other side resides so that lone pair is actually going to be in one of these sp hybrids in the end and then finally we'll find out that the other two bonds in the triple bond it's going to be the p electrons here and the p orbitals they're going to be involved in making those again we'll see that in the next lesson but i kind of want to lay the groundwork here for just basically seeing that once you know the number of electron domains coming off an atom you can identify what its hybridization is and again two domains sp hybridized three domains spp sp2 hybridized we say four domains sppp sp3 hybridized now if you've got an expanded octet you have either five or six electron domains you're out of p orbitals there's no such thing as like sp4 or sp5 you gotta actually start adding in ds and so with five domains it would be s p p p and then a d and so it'd be s p three hybridized and with six domains it would be s p p d d a second d so it'd be sp3 d2 hybridized and so really quickly from a lewis structure just count up the electron domains and if you can count them up you can indicate what the hybridization is even if you don't even understand this you can still indicate what the hybridization of that atom is but again one thing you should realize that if you're sp hybridized you will have two sp hybrid orbitals if you're sp2 hybridized you will have three of those sp2 hybrids if you're sp3 hybridized you will have four sp3 hybrids in the end just like so if you are sp3d hybridized you will have five of those hybrid orbitals in the end and if your sp3 d2 hybridized you will have six of those hybrid orbitals in the end now uh turns out a lot of classes will probably leave out talking about those expanded octets and for good reason they might not really be part of the good theory and stuff according to some people and whether you have them or not i put them on the list just to be kind of thorough and stuff like that but some of you may not be introduced to them for a variety of reasons so cool uh i'm gonna stop there i put a lovely diagram on the study guide there showing kind of where an sp hybrid might come from and stuff like that but i'm gonna reserve talking about that in the last lesson in this chapter when we talk about molecular orbital 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Length: 16min 52sec (1012 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 03 2021