Electron-pair bonding is a central chemical paradigm. Here, we show that alongside the two classical covalent and ionic bond families, there exists a class of charge-shift (CS) bonds wherein the ...

No one person can claim to have lit the fuse for this revolution -- but Lewis S. Ranieri was holding the match. Joining Salomon Brothers' new mortgage-trading desk in the late 1970s, the college ...

The atom that gains an electron becomes a negative ion. A positive and negative ion attract each other and form an ionic bond. Students will look at animations and make drawings of the ionic bonding ...