Organic Chemistry Podcast- How a covalent bond breaks?

Hello, Welcome to CurlyArrows Learn Chemistry with Sibi. A common bond in organic chemistry is the covalent bond. So naturally, understanding the formation of the covalent bond and its reactions becomes crucial because any change in the covalent bond can only occur by bond breaking and making to create newer, improved molecules and future products.In today's episode, I will answer How does a covalent bond break? Did you know that, back in the 1900s, it was believed that a hook and a loop type of closure was the covalent bond that was responsible for holding atoms in a molecule? Interesting, right? Later, this hook-and-loop idea was discarded when G.N. Lewis, in 1916, proposed that two atoms are held in a covalent bond by two electrons. This theory is still relevant today. So, any chemical reactions and molecular transformations must happen by breaking or making of this two-electron bond.Related Chapter - Covalent Bond