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

bond order, bond strength

polarity, electronegativity

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