Lewis paradigm

It has become customary to speak of these high N values for carbon as electron-deficient, a characteristic found in most boranes and carboranes59) whereas other N values (as found in PFS and SF6) are called hyper-valent. This obedience to the Lewis paradigm reminds one about meteorological weather predictions, to which the speaker adds that a considerable amplitude of hyperthermic and hypothermic deviations are expected, as well as xeric and hydrophilic anomalies. 

Special Extensions of the Lewis Paradigm the Hybridization and the Kimball Models... 

There are not many analogous comprehensive postulates in chemistry, and they are in a way grandiose, even when they fail. The closest analogy to the Lewis paradigm is probably the idea of Lavoisier that all acids contain oxygen. This is still true for about half of the adds, but it is no longer considered pertinent. 

Since the time of Berzelius, there has been a persistent argument used by inorganic chemists that, in many cases, valency as a positive integer should be replaced by negative and positive oxidation numbers adding up to zero in a molecule or solid, and to the ionic charge of a polyatomic cation or anion [9]. The same year, 1916, as the Lewis paradigm was formulated [13,14], emphasiz-... 

There are huge groups of compounds which nicely fit the simplest version of the Lewis paradigm. The best case is acyclic alkanes starting with methane, and... 

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