Chemical bonding, basic concepts Lewis structures

The acid-base concept, either in the limited interpretation of the Bronsted-Lowry theory or in the more general sense of the Lewis theory, is one of the most useful classification schemes in chemistry and a tool for systematizing the relationship between structure and reactivity. In this section we examine how this general concept can be applied to solid surfaces [29], From the most general (Lewis) point of view, a surface is classified as acidic (electron acceptor) or basic (electron donor) according to the direction of net electron transfer that results in the formation of new chemical bonds with an adsorbed molecule. 

In 1923. Lewis published a classic book (later reprinted by Dover Publications) titled Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules. Here, in Lewis s characteristically lucid style, we find many of the basic principles of covalent bonding discussed in this chapter. Included are electron-dot structures, the octet rule, and the concept of electronegativity. Here too is the Lewis definition of acids and bases (Chapter 15). That same year, Lewis published with Merle Randall a text called Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances. Today, a revised edition of that text is still used in graduate courses in chemistry. 

On the basis of correlation analysis by LFER between the chemical structure and spectral data from IR and NMR, Lewis basicity, rate constant of hydrolysis as well as pKa of various organophos-phorus compounds, it is not likely that the benzene ring is conjugated with the phosphoryl group, and that the oxygen of the latter is linked to the phosphorus by a double bond, if the general concepts of conjugation in the chemistry of carbon compounds work as well in the phosphorus series. 

As first proposed by Duffy et al. [5,6,20-22], the so-called optical basicity characterized by A allows to classify oxides as a scale of acidity that is referred to the same 0 base. It accounts for physical and chemical behavior of phases and gives indications, for example, on the structural modifications in glasses, the effective electronic charge carried by ions in an oxide, the M-0 bond lengths, or on redox equilibria in melted glasses. The optical basicity is built on Lewis acidity concept and is particularly adapted to the study of nonaqueous nonprotonated systems. This... 

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