bonding - Crunch Chemistry

Bonding in the nitrogen oxides and oxyanions

Nitrogen bonds with oxygen to from a number of oxides and oxyanions, the most common of which are listed below

Given the electronic configuration of carbon, at first glance it would seem that it has only two electrons available for

This is the second modern theory of bonding, the first being valence bond theory. In molecular orbital theory covalent bonds

Our familiar model of covalent bonding is largely based on the Lewis model, with atoms sharing pairs of bonding electrons

Once again, showing how covalent bonds are formed using dot and cross diagrams is simpler at A level than at

Metal atoms find it fairly easy (in terms of energy) to lose their outer-shell or valence electrons. They have a