Question

How Many Nodes are in the Lowest Energy Molecular Orbital?

Answer 1

The number of nodes present in Lowest energy molecular orbital:

• The lowest energy molecular orbital which is the sigma ( ) p₁ bonding orbital has zero nodes.
• The lowest energy level usually has all the p-orbitals that are aligned in the same manner. Therefore it has zero nodes.

Thus, they have zero nodes in lowest molecular p orbital.