What are delta bonds?

Neha Sanghvi · Aug 25, 2005

Hey, could anybody plz explain what are delta bonds, how and why are they formed?

TRCSF · Aug 25, 2005

You know what sigma bonds are, a bond between two s-orbitals, or between an s-orbital and a p-orbital, etc? And a pi bond is between two p-orbitals, or between two lobes of d-orbitals, right? A delta bond is between all four lobes of two d-orbitals. Fairly rare and not a very strong interaction from what I understand.

Neha Sanghvi · Aug 26, 2005

TRCSF said:

You know what sigma bonds are, a bond between two s-orbitals, or between an s-orbital and a p-orbital, etc? And a pi bond is between two p-orbitals, or between two lobes of d-orbitals, right? A delta bond is between all four lobes of two d-orbitals. Fairly rare and not a very strong interaction from what I understand.

Could you give some examples plz? And are their any other sort of bonds, other than sigma, pi and delta? If so, could you explain them too, plz?

bomba923 · Aug 27, 2005

Neha Sanghvi said:

Could you give some examples plz? And are their any other sort of bonds, other than sigma, pi and delta? If so, could you explain them too, plz?

Perhaps a type between f-orbitals?

Neha Sanghvi · Aug 28, 2005

bomba923 said:

Perhaps a type between f-orbitals?

Hey, I was just asking a question as we have bonds involving s, p and d orbitals, so why not f orbitals? And plz, could you give me some delta bonds examples?

InfinityINC · Nov 14, 2010

The only example of a delta bond that comes to mind is 6d(delta symbol)_g.

Dickfore · Nov 14, 2010

I found this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple_bond" [Broken]