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Hiberty, Philippe C.; Danovich, David; Shaik, Sason – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
This commentary summarizes the authors' basic disagreements with the paper, "Rabbit-Ears, VSEPR Sterics, and Other Orbital Anachronisms," which criticizes the authors' usage of the hybrid orbitals for H[subscript 2]O in their book, "A Chemist's Guide to Valence Bond Theory" (Shaik and Hiberty, 2008). The current article shows…
Descriptors: Criticism, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Molecular Structure