SEARCH Articles Figures Tables A New Look at Molecules and the Formation of Covalent Bonds COVALENT BONDS RESULT FROM A SHARING OF ELECTRONS Characteristics of Simple Covalent Bonds Composites with Covalent Bonding of the Polymer Covalent Bonding and Structures of Covalently Bound Compounds Covalent Bonding of Functional Coatings on Conductive Materials the Electrochemical Approach Covalent bond energies of Covalent bond of carbon Covalent bonding of carbon Covalent bonding of the transition elements Covalent bonding, of protein Covalent bonds of ligands Covalent bonds of molecules Covalent hydration of C=N bond Degree of bond covalence Design of polymer liquid crystals with non-covalent bonds Dissociation of covalent bond Formation of Covalent Bonds Healing based on photoinduced homolytic dissociations of covalent bonds Hybridization of covalent bonds Isolation of Non-covalently Bonded Aggregates Number of covalent bonds Overlap and directional character of the covalent bond POLAR COVALENT BONDS RESULT FROM AN UNEVEN SHARING OF ELECTRONS Partial ionic character of covalent bonds Polarity of covalent bonds Pseudopotential Theory of Covalent Bonding Some Simple Reactions of Covalently Bonded Molecules Stiffness of the Covalent Bonds Strength of covalent bonds Strengths and Lengths of Covalent Bonds The Formation of a Covalent Bond The Model of Weak Covalent Bonding The Partial Ionic Character of Covalent Bonds The Partial Ionic Character of Polar Covalent Bonds The lengths of covalent bonds Theories of Covalent Bonding Types of Bonds Covalent, Ionic, Polar, Metallic Use of Molecular Symmetry to Generate Covalent Excited States Based on Valence Bond Theory What are the principle geometrical consequences of ionic, covalent and metallic bonding