Structures, bonding and acidity

Lewis structures - octet rule

Formal charges

Exceptions to the octet rule

Contributing resonance structures

Electron-pushing using curly arrows

Disallowed curly arrow-pushing

Resonance structures - examples

Rules for drawing Lewis structures

VSEPR (valence shell electron pair repulsion theory) – summary

MO theory – basics and LCAO 

Hybridization - sp3

Hybridization - sp2

Hybridization - sp

Drawing and labeling Lewis structures - putting it all together

Allylic and benzylic systems

Acids and bases - pushing curly/curved arrows

Conjugate acids and bases - best acid wins

Factors affecting pKa values - stability of conjugate bases

pKa values - numbers and trends

Ranking acids and bases


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