Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
A 16-module path through chemical bonding and molecular structure, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Kossel-Lewis approach
- Ionic bond formation
- Lattice enthalpy
- Lewis structures and molecular shapes
- Sigma and pi bonds and bond parameters
- Variable covalency
- Bond polarity and dipole moment
- Octet rule exceptions
- Fajan's rules
- VSEPR theory
- Hybridisation
- Molecular orbital theory
- Coordinate bond
- Resonance
- Hydrogen bonding
- Comparing ionic and covalent bonds