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Covalent Bonding
- A covalent bond, also called a molecular bond, is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
- These electron pairs are known as shared pairs or bonding pairs, and the stable balance of attractive and repulsive forces between atoms, when they share electrons, is known as covalent bonding.
- For many molecules, the sharing of electrons allows each atom to attain the equivalent of a full outer shell, corresponding to a stable electronic configuration.
- Covalent bonding only occurs between non-metals.
Inter-molecular forces
Intermolecular forces (IMFs) are the forces which mediate interaction between molecules. They also include forces of attraction or repulsion which act between molecules and other types of neighboring particles (e.g., atoms or ions).
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The intermolecular forces form the attractions between the two non-metals.
CITATION:
Covalent bond. (n.d.). Retrieved December 27, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covalent_bond
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BBC - GCSE Bitesize: Covalent bonding. (n.d.). Retrieved December 27, 2016, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_gateway_pre_2011/periodictable/covalentbondingrev1.shtml
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BBC - GCSE Bitesize: Covalent compounds - simple molecules. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2016, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_aqa_pre_2011/atomic/differentsubrev2.shtml