Exercises

This chapter closes with the NCERT's own set of end-of-chapter exercise questions

(Exercises 4.1–4.40), listed below with our own worked solutions. They cover the full span of

the chapter — Lewis structures and the octet rule, ionic bonding, bond parameters and resonance,

VSEPR-predicted shapes, dipole moments and bond polarity, valence bond theory and hybridisation

(including $sp^3d$ and $sp^3d^2$ schemes involving $d$ orbitals), molecular orbital theory and …