Sorry Haz. It's been way to long since I had any of this and that was just a basic chemistry class in college. The last time I looked at some of that stuff was when my kids were in middle school. I got out some of my old college notes and they were studying the stuff I had in college in middle school.
Some times you just have to walk away from it for awhile and come back to it later with a head that is not cluttered in frustration.
Not suggesting that Haz Jr is a dummy, but I am, and have found that the "For Dummies" books are a great help to me in a lot of things to get the background to understanding the tougher things. They probably have one for Chemistry