"SOMETIMES IT SEEMS to me that a bond between two atoms has become so real, so tangible, so friendly, that I can almost see it. Then I awake with a little shock, for a chemical bond is not a real ...

In 1923, the year C&EN was born, Gilbert N. Lewis of the University of California, Berkeley, published a book titled “Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules.” In the text, Lewis laid out the ...

You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.

Find the notes of chapter Chemical Bonding including important topics like chemical bonding, types of chemical bond, hydrogen bond, hybridisation, important conditions for hybridization, valence shell ...

The chapter Chemical Bonding plays an important role in IIT JEE, UPSEE, WBJEE and various other engineering entrance examinations. This article talks about Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR ...

In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to ...