Key Terms
- antibonding MO
- atomic number (Z)
- Aufbau principle
- bond angle
- bond length
- bond strength
- bonding MO
- condensed structure
- covalent bond
- electron shell
- electron-dot structure
- ground-state electron configuration
- Hund’s rule
- ionic bond
- isotope
- Kekulé structure
- Lewis structure
- line-bond structure
- lone-pair electrons
- mass number (A)
- molecular orbital (MO) theory
- molecule
- node
- nonbonding electron
- orbital
- organic chemistry
- Pauli exclusion principle
- pi (π) bond
- sigma (σ) bond
- skeletal structure
- sp hybrid orbital
- sp2 hybrid orbital
- sp3 hybrid orbital
- valence bond (VB) theory
- valence shell
