Bond Order Quick Quiz 1

Chemistry Level 2

Select the compound with highest bond order:

O2- CO CO+ NO

Anubhav Sachan by Anubhav Sachan , 23, India

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Anubhav Sachan
Jun 4, 2014

When we draw the molecular orbital theory's diagram of CO+ Molecule , we generally take one electron out of sigma 2Pz (bonding) but it's not correct. After the filling of orbitals as per CO's configuration , the energy of sigma*2S(Antibonding) becomes maximum and hence now it's placed at the top and the electron which leaves (or removed) is from this 2S Antibonding Orbital. Therefore according to above explanation the bond order of CO+ is exactly 3.5. But I'm sure that you had calculated it to be 2.5.Isn't it?

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