The number of antibonding electrons present in $O_{2}$ molecular ion is:

8

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6

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5

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4

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Solution

The correct option is B $6$
According to Molecular orbital theory number of antibonding electrons present in $O_{2}$ will be $6$ and bonding electrons present will be $10$ resulting in bond order $2$

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