Bonding and Isomerism Table of Contents

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher." --- Elbert Hubbard

• Short History of Bonding Prior to 1904
• Ionic Bonds
• Which Elements form Ionic Bonds?
• A Brief Look at How Pauling Discovered the Electronegativity Scale
• Electronegativity and Bond Type
• Covalent Bond History Prior to 1916
• Gilbert Newton Lewis and the Covalent Bond
• Lewis Dot Diagrams I - Obeying The Octet Rule
• Lewis Dot Diagrams II - Expanded Octets
• Lewis Diagrams III - Odd Electron Molecules
• Predicing Polarity of Simple Covalent Molecules
• Isomerism