Note that noble gases are excluded from this figure because these atoms usually do not share electrons with others atoms since they have a full valence shell. Metals tend to be less electronegative elements, and the group 1 metals have the lowest electronegativities. Thus, the nonmetals, which lie in the upper right, tend to have the highest electronegativities, with fluorine the most electronegative element of all (EN = 4.0). In general, electronegativity increases from left to right across a period in the periodic table and decreases down a group. shows the electronegativity values of the elements as proposed by one of the most famous chemists of the twentieth century: Linus Pauling ( ). At a certain point, this bond is so polarized that electrons are no longer considered shared and instead of a covalent bond we have an ionic bonding interaction. The greater the difference in electronegativity, the more polarized the electron distribution and the larger the partial charges of the atoms. Electrons in a polar covalent bond are shifted toward the more electronegative atom thus, the more electronegative atom is the one with the partial negative charge. The more strongly an atom attracts the electrons in its bonds, the larger its electronegativity. It determines how the shared electrons are distributed between the two atoms in a bond. Electronegativity is a measure of the tendency of an atom to attract electrons (or electron density) towards itself.
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