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Dendrimers can be constructed from chemical species other than purely organic monomers. For example, they can be built up from metal branching centres such as ruthenium or osmium with multidentate ligands. The resulting molecules are known as metallodendrimers. Such molecules can retain their structure by a variety of mechanisms, including complexation, hydrogen bonding and ionic interactions. 

Thermoset polymers (sometimes called network polymers) can be formed from either monomers or low MW macromers that have a functionality of three or more (only one of the reagents requires this), or a pre-formed polymer by extensive crosslinking (also called curing or vulcanisation this latter term is only applied when sulfur is the vulcanising or crosslinking agent.) The crosslinks involve the formation of chemical bonds — covalent (e.g., carbon-carbon bonds) or ionic bonds. 

The goal of this chapter is to help you gain an understanding of Lewis structures. These are necessary to study chemical bonding, both ionic and covalent. You might need to review the Section 2-3 on chemical formulas. Chapter 6 on Hess s law may also be helpful. Ionization energies and electron affinities, from Chapter 8, are also important. And remember the only way to master this material is to Practice, Practice, Practice. 

To an increasing weight of the chemical bond factor (ionic and/or covalent bonding) will correspond, as an extreme case, the formation of valence compounds. According to Parthe (1980), a compound CmAn can be called a normal valence compound if the number of valence electrons of cations (ec) and anions (eA) correspond to the relation... 

In this section, you have used Lewis structures to represent bonding in ionic and covalent compounds, and have applied the quantum mechanical theory of the atom to enhance your understanding of bonding. All chemical bonds—whether their predominant character is ionic, covalent, or between the two—result from the atomic structure and properties of the bonding atoms. In the next section, you will learn how the positions of atoms in a compound, and the arrangement of the bonding and lone pairs of electrons, produce molecules with characteristic shapes. These shapes, and the forces that arise from them, are intimately linked to the physical properties of substances, as you will see in the final section of the chapter. 

Polar covalent bond Chemical bonds in which electrons are not equally shared due to the greater electronegativity of one of the atoms. As a result, the more electronegative atom acquires a small net negative charge relative to the less electronegative one. The difference in electronegativities is somewhat smaller than that in an ionic bond. 

We know that the three types of chemical bonds that exist between atoms are non polar covalent bonds, polar covalent bonds and ionic bonds. We are already familiar with the idea that it is helpful to think of these as making up a bonding continuum. Non polar covalent bonding lies at one end of the continuum and ionic bonding at the other polar covalent bonding lies between these two extremes. 

Pauling offered the following definition of a chemical bond ... there is a chemical bond between two atoms or groups of atoms... (if) forces acting between them are such as to lead to the formation of an aggregate with sufficient stability to make it convenient for the chemist to consider it as an independent molecular species. Chemical bonds include ionic bonds, coordinate covalent... 

Chemical interactions of ligands with these receptors may involve the formation of many types of bonds, including ionic, hydrogen, van der Waals , and covalent Ligand-receptor interactions are often stereospecific (i.e., one stereoisomer is usually more potent than the other)... 

The chemical, physical, and thermal properties ana resistance to degradation of polysiloxanes is the result of the high energy (106 kcal/mol) and the relatively large amount of ionic character of the siloxane bond. The ionic character of the Si—O bond facilitates acid and base-catalyzed rearrangement and/or degradation reactions. Under inert conditions, highly purified polydiphenyl- and polydimethylsiloxanes are stable at 350 to 400 °C. 

The ionic bond and the nonpolar covalent bond represent the two extremes of chemical bonding. The ionic bond involves a transfer of one or more electrons, and the nonpolar covalent bond involves the equitable sharing of electrons. The character of a polar covalent bond falls between these two extremes. 

Before considering the structures of molecules, we must begin with a discussion of chemical bonds, the forces that hold atoms together in molecules. There are two types of chemical bonds, the ionic bond and the covalent bond. 

When two or more ions bond together chemically, it is called an ionic bond. In an ionic bond, the ions are attracted to one another because they have opposite charges. In general, ionic bonds form between a metal and a nonmetal. Since sodium is a metal and chlorine is a nonmetal, when they bond, an ionic bond is formed and sodium chloride is produced. 

Lately one has been able to encounter experimental studies more frequently denoted Chemical Force Microscopy , CMF. This includes various attempts to observe tip-surface interactions which are specific to the chemical constitution of the surface. Mostly, CFM involves modification of the tip by a surface layer with molecules which contain particular functional groups, i.e. hydrophilic or hydro-phobic moieties, hydrogen bonding groups, ionic substituents and molecular units which can undergo electron-donor-acceptor interactions. However, sometimes the term Chemical Force Microscopy is just used for any method which can provide a material specific contrast. Depending on the specificity, CFM provides valuable information on the nanoscale composition complementary to other surface characterisation methods which are sensitive to the chemical con-... 

The atoms in molecular solids are held together by weak inter-molecular forces. These forces are much weaker than the chemical bonds in ionic, metallic, and network atomic solids, but they are still strong enough to hold molecules together. 

The electron cloud around an atom makes the concept of atomic size somewhat imprecise. Even so, it is useful to refer to an atomic size or an atomic radius. Operationally, one can divide the experimentally determined distance between the centers of two chemically bonded atoms to arrive at the two atomic radii. If the bonding is covalent (see Chapter 9), the radius is called a covalent radius if the bonding is ionic, the radius is an ionic radius. The radius for a nonbonded situation may also be defined in terms of the distance of closest nonbonding approach and is called a van der Waals radius. These concepts of size are illustrated in Fig. 8-6. 

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