Lewis structure usage

However, we should emphasize that the NBO/NRT concepts of hybridization, Lewis structure, and resonance differ in important respects from previous empirical usage of these terms. In earlier phases of valence theory it was seldom possible to determine, e.g., the atomic hybridization by independent theoretical or experimental procedures, and instead this term became a loosely coded synonym for the molecular topology. For example, a trigonally coordinated atom might be categorized as sp2-hybridized or an octahedrally coordinated atom as d2sp3-hybridized, with no supporting evidence for the accuracy of these labels as descriptors of actual... 

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