The Bonding and Molecular Structure of Organic Chemicals
The most basic concept in all of chemistry is the chemical bond. The chemical bond is essentially the sharing of electrons between two atoms, a sharing which holds or bonds the atoms together. In order to understand the chemical bond, atoms and electrons must first be understood.
All atoms, basically have three components (We are not interested the lower particles found in the deeper sites of micro universe): protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons have a positive charge of +1, neutrons have 0 charge, and electrons have a negative charge of -1. The protons and neutrons occupy the center of the atom as a piece of solid matter called the nucleus. The electrons exist in "orbitals" surrounding the nucleus. In the olden times, it was believed that the electrons orbited the nucleus in the same way that planets orbit the sun. This is not exactly true, but it explains the origin of the term orbital to describe the location of the electron.