Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure (Chapter 9)
Ionic vs. covalent bonding
Molecular orbitals and the covalent bond (Ch. 10)
Valence electron Lewis dot structures
octet vs. non-octet
resonance structures
formal charges
VSEPR - predicting shapes of molecules
Bond properties
polarity, bond order, bond strength
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