chpt. 9 -- molecular geometry and bonding theories

This is intro. to Psychology class notes on molecular geometry and bonding theories. This document goes into detail about understanding the shape of molecules, relating lewis structures to shapes, VSEPR dictates the orientation of groups around central atoms, defining terms for VSEPR, shape of the central atom, electron domain geometry vs. molecular geometry, electron domain geometries with 2, 3, and 4 domains around the central atom, molecular geometry, predicting bond angles requires knowing domain geometry, molecular geometries within linear and trigonal planar domain geometries, molecular geometries within tetrahedral domain geometry, molecular geometries within each domain geometry, determining molecular dipoles is a function of the sum of the bond dipoles, examples of determining molecular dipoles, covalent bonding and orbital overlap, problems reconciling orbital energy with molecular shapes, predicting hybridization, why p orbitals in pi bonds don't hybridize, the behavior of pi bonds, hybridization in CH3, analyzing hybridization in CH3 the look at orbital overlap, and hybridization examples.