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1: Structure and Bonding

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This chapter provides a review of material covered in a standard freshman general-chemistry course (such as Athabasca University's Chemistry 217/ 218) through a discussion of the following topics:

  • the differences between organic and inorganic chemistry.
  • the shapes and significance of atomic orbitals.
  • electron configurations.
  • ionic and covalent bonding.
  • molecular orbital theory.
  • hybridization.
  • the structure and geometry of the compounds methane, ethane, ethylene and acetylene.


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