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6: Chemical Bonding

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  • 6.1: Introduction to Chemical Bonding
  • 6.2: Lewis Structures of Ionic Compounds- Electrons Transferred
    The tendency to form species that have eight electrons in the valence shell is called the octet rule. The attraction of oppositely charged ions caused by electron transfer is called an ionic bond. The strength of ionic bonding depends on the magnitude of the charges and the sizes of the ions.
  • 6.3: Covalent Lewis Structures- Electrons Shared
    Covalent bonds are formed when atoms share electrons. Lewis electron dot diagrams can be drawn to illustrate covalent bond formation. Double bonds or triple bonds between atoms may be necessary to properly illustrate the bonding in some molecules.
  • 6.4: Writing Lewis Structures for Covalent Compounds
    Lewis dot symbols provide a simple rationalization of why elements form compounds with the observed stoichiometries. A plot of the overall energy of a covalent bond as a function of internuclear distance is identical to a plot of an ionic pair because both result from attractive and repulsive forces between charged entities. In Lewis electron structures, we encounter bonding pairs, which are shared by two atoms, and lone pairs, which are not shared between atoms.
  • 6.5: Resonance - Equivalent Lewis Structures for the Same Molecule
    Resonance structures are averages of different Lewis structure possibilities. Bond lengths are intermediate between covalent bonds and covalent double bonds.
  • 6.6: Other Aspects of Covalent Bonds
    Covalent bonds can be nonpolar or polar, depending on the electronegativities of the atoms involved. Covalent bonds can be broken if energy is added to a molecule. The formation of covalent bonds is accompanied by energy given off. Covalent bond energies can be used to estimate the enthalpy changes of chemical reactions.
  • 6.7: Molecular Shapes
    The approximate shape of a molecule can be predicted from the number of electron groups and the number of surrounding atoms.

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