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The increasing order of the bond order of O2, O2-, O2+ and O22-?


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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:

  • B.O.=NB​−NA2​​
  • The number of electrons in the antibonding and bonding molecular orbitals, respectively, is NA,NB

Step 1: Calculating bond order of given species:

  • B.OforO2=12×[10–6]B.OforO2=2
  • B.OforO2-=12×[10–7]B.OforO2-=1.5
  • B.OforO2+=12×[10–5]B.OforO2+=2.5
  • B.OforO22-=12×[10–8]B.OforO22-=1

Step 2: Arranging in increasing order of bond length

O22-<O2-< O2< O2+


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