All organic, inorganic and physical chemistry textbooks (that I have gotten my hands on) have been wrong about orbital theory. Valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory includes the hybridization rules we all learned (sp^3 hybrids, etc), but they don’t exist. Worse, no textbooks give a disclaimer that VSEPR theory is a simplification that help visualize and solve problems, but hybrids don’t exist in nature. If you study carbon-carbon bonds (i.e., photoemission spectroscopy) you will clearly resolve separate p and s orbitals for carbon; you won’t see a mix like reasoned in hybridization theory. So why do we still teach this? VSEPR came about in the late 50s, and this contradiction has been know about since the late 60s, but every textbook remains wrong. Why?

I want to look over some texts before taking organic chemistry, so I’ll be better prepared. Do you guys know any good books or texts that might help?

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