Bonding Concepts to Know

VSEPR

  1. Lewis structures
  2. resonance
  3. formal charge vs. oxidation number
  4. molecular shapes
  5. distortions from ideal shapes
  6. localized bonding

Terms used in both MOT & VBT

  1. linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO)
  2. basis set
  3. normalization
  4. conservation of orbitals
  5. bond order and bond length

Terms used in MOT

  1. bonding orbital and antibonding orbital
  2. non-bonding orbitals
  3. MO energy level diagrams for homodiatomic molecules
  4. molecular electronic configurations
  5. HOMO, LUMO and frontier orbitals
  6. polar covalent bonding
  7. orbital nodes and orbital energies
  8. delocalized bonding

Terms used in VBT

  1. hybridization
  2. resonance