Talk:Chemical bond
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Some stuff that could be added to this article includes:
Naming bonds based on their symmetry: sigma, pi, delta.
Bond order and associated nomenclature: single bond, double bond, triple bonds, bonding, non-bonding, and anti-bonding orbitals.
The depiction of bonding: Lewis electron dot structures, line drawings with explicit atom lables, organic bond line drawings in which carbon atom positions can be inferred to exist at the vertices, 3-D wedge diagrams with dashed lines for bonds pointing "back" and solid wedges indicating bonds that point "forward". Stereochemical uncertainty indicated by a bond shown as a wavy line.
Ways of characterizing bonds--bond dissociation energies, atomic radii and bond lengths, vibrational spectroscopy, conjugation and UV-visible spectroscopy.
Much more to add than I can do justice to at the moment, but if I put this here it will help get me started more quickly next time, or maybe prompt someone else to contribute.
Other points. Valency fails with coordination compounds. Octets have no meaning when the bonding happens between (s,p) electrons and d electrons. So why is valency pointed to with the second sentence when valence bonding per se is not general? Dwmyers 18:48 Feb 18, 2003 (UTC)
