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This is a simple in-class activity that asks students to utilize any of the given available online orbital viewers to help them identify atomic orbital overlap and interactions.
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Following the activity, students will be able to:
- draw the s, p, and d atomic orbitals using the given coordinate axes
- analyze the orbital interaction by looking at their symmetry and overlap (or lack of)
- differentiate s, p, d, and nonbonding molecular orbital
Internet connection and computer
This activity should be run in a computer lab.
Evaluation
Evaluation was conducted by the instructor walking around the computer lab to check progress and address the issues students had.
This LO was implemented once in advanced inorganic chemistry composed of 5 chemistry major students. Students clearly identified the type of orbital interactions and differentiated bonding, nonbonding, and antibonding MOs. Students commented that this is a great in-class activity before the discussion of MOs for diatomic molecules (Chapter 5 of MFT).