Covalent, Metallic, and Secondary Bonding

This chapter introduces the concepts of bonding, coordination, and packing fraction. We start with covalent bonding, encompassing both valence bond theory and molecular orbital theory, then move to metallic bonding, the Hume-Rothery Rules, and band theory; and we finish with Van der Waals forces and hydrogen bonding. A biographical sketch of Johannes Diderik van der Waals is also included.