… Chapter 3 is devoted to the valence bond and hybrid orbital descriptions of chemical
bonding. It has been our experience that students often feel that sp, sp², and sp³ are the only …

… chemical bonding, it is limited in its ability to provide a simple quantitative approach to the
complex chemical structures … of the chemical bond was developed directly from chemical experi…

… This is followed by a discussion of the effect of bonding (… in which chemical bonding and
reaction, bonding conditions, … approaches toward atomic and chemical bonding that have been …

… of bonds an atom will possess. More so, the very first paper of the new quantum chemistry that
dealt with the nature of the chemical bond… a dressing of the Lewis bond by the language of …

… most important aspects of chemical bonding in molecules of … bond formation and its
description with chemical bonding … basis for understanding the chemical bond. In the absence of …

… strong attraction and the formation of a chemical bond, we say that the bond is an electrostatic
bond. The most important electrostatic bond is the ionic bond, resulting from the Coulomb …

… of the chemical concepts of atoms, bonds, and structure, one of the most important reasons
explaining the popularity [5, 6] of QTAIMAC for the study of chemical bonding in crystals is …

… Our emphasis, however, will be on the interrelation between structure and bonding. It
should be noted that the interaction between experimental and quantum-chemical studies has …

… on bonding, and it is only fitting that their publication date is close to the centenary of the Lewis
seminal paper on electron pair bonding. … the present understanding of chemical bonding. …

… Chemical structure and bonding is a topic in which understanding is developed through
diverse models, which, in turn, are built upon a range of physical principles; and where students …