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Additional Reading on Electronegativity and Polarity

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    Michigan State Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry

    Charge Distribution

    MasterOrganicChemistry

    How to Use Electronegativity to Determine Electron Density (and why NOT to trust formal charge)

    Carey 4th Edition On-Line Activity

    Bond Types

    Khan Academy

    Electronegativity and Bond Polarity

    Leah4Sci

    Ionic, Polar Covalent and Non-Polar Covalent Bonding in Organic Chemistry

    Cliffs Notes

    Covalent Bonding and Electronegativity

    Slide Presentations

    An On-Line presentation on covalent bonds

    Web Pages

    *About.com page on Electronegativity

    *Lewis Structures, Electronegativity and Polar Bonds

    Bond polarity

    Bond Polarity

    More information on covalent bonding

    Information about covalent bonds

    Videos

    Polar bonds and Electronegativity

    Tutorial

    Bond dipoles and a quiz

    Practice Problems


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