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Ch.9 - Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories

Chapter 9, Problem 73c

Draw a picture that shows all three 2p orbitals on one atom and all three 2p orbitals on another atom. (c) How many antibonding orbitals, and of what type can be made from the two sets of 2p orbitals?

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Hi everyone here. We have a question asking us to give the illustration for two atoms that each has 32 P orbital's determine the number of bonding orbital's and the type of molecular orbital that can be constructed from the two sets of two P orbital's. So we have our Z. Access here and Ry and our ex and a two P 32 P orbital's is going to look like this and there's two of them. So we're going to draw that again. And when combining atomic orbital's to form molecular orbital is the total number of orbital's is conserved. So that's why we have six orbital's each. There are six atomic orbital's. So six molecular orbital's There are three bonding molecular orbital's and three anti bonding molecular orbital's And we have one sigma and two pi So these are our final answers. Thank you for watching. Bye.