Explore the fascinating world of main group element compounds with ‘Molecules and Models’. This comprehensive guide from The Bookish Owl systematically details molecular structures and bonding, emphasizing bond distances, energies, and coordination geometries. Delve into hydrogen, halogen, and methyl derivatives, examining both ionic and polar covalent molecules. The book highlights predictable trends alongside intriguing exceptions, and explores electron donor-acceptor and hydrogen-bonded complexes. Essential for chemists, it clarifies predictive models like Lewis electron-pair, VSEPR, spherical and polarizable ion models, and molecular orbital calculations, outlining their strengths and limitations. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand and predict chemical structures.