Ebook "The chemical bond II: 100 years old and getting stronger" starts with a detailed account of Lewis and Kossel’s legacy in defining the bonding in ionic and covalent compounds of main group elements and addresses the thermochemical and bond length implications of the Lewis and Kossel models. Discussions of quantum chemical topology, the definition of electron pairs in positional space, provide a deeper insight into the nature of the chemical bond and the relevance of the ELF topological approach to the Lewis bond model and the evolution of electron pair bonding in covalent, ionic and charge shift bonds. |
