Overcoming barriers in bonding
Caution advised over octet rule
Bonding is an essential concept in chemistry that also presents students with many challenges. A great deal of chemistry education research has been devoted to teaching the topic and the order in which different types of bonding should be introduced. In this article, Dhindsa and Treagust make a compelling case for starting with covalent bonding followed by polar covalent and then ionic bonding.
David Read summarises and reviews the article.
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