Chapter 8 Chemical Bonding. © 2009, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chemical Bonds Three basic types of bonds – Ionic Electrostatic attraction between ions – Covalent.
Chapter 8 Concepts of Chemical Bonding
Chapter 2 Basic concepts: molecules TOPICS Lewis structures Valence bond theory Fundamentals of molecular orbital theory The octet rule Isoelectronic.
Lewis Structures Chapter 8. Lewis Structures Lewis structures are representations of molecules showing all valence electrons, bonding and nonbonding.
Chemical Bonding © 2009, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Polar Covalent Bonds The greater the difference in electronegativity, the more polar is the bond.
Environmental Chemistry Chapter 3: The Detailed Chemistry of the Atmosphere Copyright © 2007 DBS.
How to draw Lewis dot structures for covalent compounds Text section 12.3
Lewis Structures