Pi Bonds

[Daniel Hernandez 1G]

Are pi bonds applicable to all types of bonds or solely covalent bonds?

[Andreas Krumbein 1L]

Just covalent bonds, since bonded ions don't share electrons as much as they exchange them, thus eliminating the need to use standard orbital theory to understand the way in which they bond.

[Armen_Isayan_2L]

Hello, Pi bonds are solely applicable to covalent bonds! In essence, they are covalent bonds thare able to form into double or triple bonds, but do not form into single bonds.

[Michael Cardenas 3B]

I was wondering why Pi bonds are specifically sideways overlapping?

[Madeline Ogden 3B]

I was wondering why Pi bonds are specifically sideways overlapping?

I think it has something to do with the fact that when they overlap this way, the axes of each molecule remain parallel to each other. Because of this, pi-bonds are always weaker than sigma-bonds since there's less material overlapping. Though why they were categorized this way I don't know.

[Muskaan Abdul-Sattar]

Just covalent bonds.

[Brandon Carris]

ye only covalent bonds

[Lesly Lopez 3A]

Hi,

From what I know, it is just covalent bonds. This is because bonded ions will not be able to share electrons as much as they have the ability to exchange them.

[Neel Sharma 3F]

Pi bonds refer to covalent bonds because pi bonds represent the sharing of orbitals (usually p-orbitals) and covalent bonding is when electrons are shared as opposed to ionic bonds in which electrons are transfered. Hope this helps!

[Diana Aguilar 3H]

Pi bonds are only applicable to covalent bonds.

[Joanna Huang]

Pi bonds are only applicable to covalent bonds, since ions don't share electrons and form bonds.

[CesarLec1]

Just covalent bonds because in covalent bonds, electrons are shared thus, orbitals are overlapped so they can share. But with ionic bonds, the electrons are transferred from one element to the next so there is essentially no sharing

[Bai Rong Lin 2K]

It is only applicable to covalent bond

[Adam_ElSayed_3B]

Pi bonds by nature can only apply to covalent bonds. Ionic bonds don't engage in sigma or pi bonds.

[Nicole Bruno Dis 1B]

Yes, pi bonds are covalent chemical bonds. Two lobes of an orbital overlap on another atom laterally. They typically form in double and triple bonds, but rarely in single bonds.

[Sejal Parsi 3K]

Pi bonds only apply to covalent bonds!

[Jacob Kirkosian 3C]

Pi bonds only apply to covalent bonds because, by definition, a pi bond requires two lobes from an orbital of two atoms to overlap, hence the electron pairs are being shared between both atoms (covalent).

[QUEP 2F]

Hi!

Pi bonds only apply to covalent bonds.

[Emily Widjaja 3A]

hello,
pi bonds can only exist in covalent multiple bonds. a covalent single bond is a sigma bond.