Substance Structure & Bonding

Below are tutorial movies for learning to correctly draw Lewis structures for both organic and inorganic compounds.

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Substance Classification - ICAO

  • Ionic, Covalent, Acid, Organic, Cation & Anion (click here)
  • Substance Classification Drill & Practice (click here)

Substance Structure

ORGANIC molecular structure

  • Drawing correct structures for organic molecular (click here)
  • Line-Angle Structure Notation (click here)

INORGANIC substances structure

  • Lewis Dot Structure and Bohr's Model (click here)
  • Drawing correct structure for inorganic substances (click here)

Steps and Examples for Drawing Correct Lewis Dots

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Lewis Dot Rules Summary for Inorganics (click here)

Isomerism

Geometry - Organic & Inorganic Structures

Molecular Polarity

  • How Bond Dipole & Geometry Affects Polarity
  • Polar versus Nonpolar Molecules (click here)

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Optional

Advanced Topics on Structure & Bonding for future study in chemistry:

  • Formal Charge &
  • Resonance Structures (click here)

One of my favorite movie lines - The Mechanic

 

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