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Quiz 11 solution

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There are 10 bonding electrons and four antibonding electrons so the bond order is (10-4)/2 = 3. This is exactly the same bond order as predicted by classical valence arguments. (The Lewis diagram is :N tex2html_wrap_inline18 N:.)



Marc Roussel
Thu Dec 10 10:56:22 MST 1998