POST TEST I CHEMISTRY

CHEMICAL BONDING
Name: Class: Date:

1. Sodium borohydride, NaBH4, usually encountered as as a powder, is a reducing agent that finds
application in chemistry, both in the laboratory and on an industrial scale. It has been tested as
pretreatment for pulping of wood, but is too costly to be commercialized.

a. Draw the Lewis structure of borohydride ion, 𝐵𝐻4−

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b. The bonding between sodium and borohydride ion is ionic bond. Draw the Lewis structure of
the ionic bonding between sodium ion and borohydride ion.

[3]

c. State and draw the shape of borohydride ion molecule.

Including molecular class and bond angle.

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d. State the polarity of borohydride ion molecule. Explain your answer.

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 2. Another sulfur compound which is present in the Earth’s atmosphere is carbonyl sulfide, OCS. The
sequence of atoms in the molecule is oxygen-carbon-sulfur.

a. Draw a ‘dot-and-cross” diagram of the OCS molecule.

Show outer electrons only.

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b. Suggest a value for O – C – S bond angle.

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c. Work out for the electronegativity of OCS.

Including Lewis structure, partial charges, and arrow of electronegativity.

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d. Show, and clearly label the σ and 𝜋 bonds on the OCS molecule.

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 3. Molecules are attracted to each other by weak intermolecular forces. There are three types of
molecular force;
• Induced dipole force (Van der Waals)
• Permanent dipole force
• Hydrogen bonding

For each group of molecules below, identify the strongest type of intermolecular force present in
each molecule (1 mark) and then use this information to order the molecules according to their
boiling point, from lowest to highest (1 mark). Explain your answer (1 mark).

a. CH4 CH3Cl CH3F

b. CCl4 CH2Cl2 CH3Cl

c. H2O H 2S H2Se

d. NH3 PH3 AsH3

[Total: 12]

4. Magnesium silicide, Mg2Si, is a compound made by heating magnesium with sand.

a. Draw Lewis structure to show the arrangement of outer electrons present in a formula unit of
Mg2Si. Assume magnesium silicide is an ionic compound.

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b. When solid Mg2Si is added to water, silane gas, SiH4, and a solution of magnesium hydroxide
are produced.
Suggest, with reference to structure and bonding, why SiH4 is a gas at room temperature.

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 c. The table shows the electronegativity values (Pauling’s scale) of carbon, hydrogen, and
silicon.

i. C – H and Si – H bonds have weak dipoles.

Use the electronegativity values in the table to show the polarity of the C – H and Si –
H bonds.

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ii. Explain why methane, CH4 is non polar molecule.

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[Total: 8]

[TOTAL POINTS: 40]

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