enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pauling's rules - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauling's_rules

    Pauling's rules are five rules published by Linus Pauling in 1929 for predicting and rationalizing the crystal structures of ionic compounds. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] First rule: the radius ratio rule

  3. Valence bond theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_bond_theory

    Linus Pauling published in 1931 his landmark paper on valence bond theory: "On the Nature of the Chemical Bond". Building on this article, Pauling's 1939 textbook: On the Nature of the Chemical Bond would become what some have called the bible of modern chemistry. This book helped experimental chemists to understand the impact of quantum theory ...

  4. Pauling's principle of electroneutrality - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauling's_principle_of...

    Pauling calculated the charge build up on the silicon atom due to the difference in electronegativity to be +2. The electroneutrality principle led Pauling to the conclusion that charge transfer from O to Si must occur using d orbitals forming a π-bond and he calculated that this π-bonding accounted for the shortening of the Si-O bond.

  5. Linus Pauling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling

    The Linus Pauling Institute still exists, but moved in 1996 from Palo Alto, California, to Corvallis, Oregon, where it is part of the Linus Pauling Science Center at Oregon State University. [ 181 ] [ 182 ] [ 183 ] The Valley Library Special Collections at Oregon State University contain the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, including ...

  6. Orbital hybridisation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_hybridisation

    Chemist Linus Pauling first developed the hybridisation theory in 1931 to explain the structure of simple molecules such as methane (CH 4) using atomic orbitals. [2] Pauling pointed out that a carbon atom forms four bonds by using one s and three p orbitals, so that "it might be inferred" that a carbon atom would form three bonds at right angles (using p orbitals) and a fourth weaker bond ...

  7. X-ray crystallography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_crystallography

    In the 1920s, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt and later Linus Pauling developed rules for eliminating chemically unlikely structures and for determining the relative sizes of atoms. These rules led to the structure of brookite (1928) and an understanding of the relative stability of the rutile , brookite and anatase forms of titanium dioxide .

  8. Molecular orbital theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_orbital_theory

    Linus Pauling, in 1931, hybridized the carbon 2s and 2p orbitals so that they pointed directly at the hydrogen 1s basis functions and featured maximal overlap. However, the delocalized MO description is more appropriate for predicting ionization energies and the positions of spectral absorption bands. When methane is ionized, a single electron ...

  9. Periodic trends - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_trends

    Periodic variation of Pauling electronegativities. The tendency of an atom in a molecule to attract the shared pair of electrons towards itself is known as electronegativity. It is a dimensionless quantity because it is only a tendency. [17] The most commonly used scale to measure electronegativity was designed by Linus Pauling.