The increasing order of the bond order of , , and ?
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Solution
Bond order:
Every molecule has a bonding hierarchy.
Each molecule has a different bond arrangement
The bond order can be calculated as half the difference between the number of electrons in nonbonding (bonding-free) and bonding-filled molecular orbitals.
The formula for calculating bond order:
The number of electrons in the antibonding and bonding molecular orbitals, respectively, is
Step 1: Calculating bond order of given species:
Step 2: Arranging in increasing order of bond length