Topic summary
Hypervalent molecules
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Hypervalent molecule.
Definitions and nomenclature
Hypervalent molecules were first formally defined by Jeremy I. Musher in 1969 as molecules having central atoms of group 15–18 in any valence other than the lowest (i.e. 3, 2, 1, 0 for Groups 15, 16, 17, 18 respectively, based on the octet rule).