Number of antibonding electron pairs in O₂^{2 - } molecular ion on basis of molecular orbital theo

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4.Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

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The number of antibonding electron pairs in $O_2^{2 - }$ molecular ion on the basis of molecular orbital theory is

A

$4$

B

$3$

C

$2$

D

$5$

Solution

(a) $O_2^{2 – }$ consist of four antibonding electron pair

$1s$ and $2s$ have two antibonding and $2{p_x}2{p_y}$ have two antibonding electron pair.

Standard 11

Chemistry

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