Indeed! The notion of the octet rule being a “foundation of chemistry” when boron compounds typically have an incomplete octet and phosphorus and sulphur compounds (like SF_6) often exceed the octet… I guess you could call this “classical chemistry” in the sense of “classical physics”—a lie that covers most of the bases and gets corrected a couple years later for those who are interested enough to keep studying.
Indeed! The notion of the octet rule being a “foundation of chemistry” when boron compounds typically have an incomplete octet and phosphorus and sulphur compounds (like SF_6) often exceed the octet… I guess you could call this “classical chemistry” in the sense of “classical physics”—a lie that covers most of the bases and gets corrected a couple years later for those who are interested enough to keep studying.