bonding

I was just observing this little container, labelled tree age.
there are 28 atoms inside and they all mostly have some happy hydrogen bonding... of course some hydrogen bonding is stronger than others..

but anyways, recently i've observed some instances of particular strong bonding formed...
like for example, element Mm and element Sr. I'm not quite sure if its just some super strong hydrogen bonding, but most likely its a stronger type of bond; the bond lengths are getting shorter and shorter.

with Mm and Sr, i wonder if its covalent or dative or ionic... do they share electrons?.. or maybe Sr has donated electrons to Mm?? Tee hee. well whether they go thru electrophilic addition to give new products, time will tell, but in the meantime, i hope their octets will be complete and happy..

I also wonder if there are more reactive species that wanna react.. I do know of at least 1 nucleophile Al that wants to donate electrons to some other unknown mysterious element. Now the question is, how do we speed up a reaction, or make it happen?

its very easy, you need to find out how to complete the other species' octet! sometimes a catalyst is also required... but most importantly, instead of just hovering around, the reactive species needs to overcome activation energy to start the reaction.

tee hee!