What does the red and blue colors on the orbital lobes represent? Could they correspond to the spin quantum number? I see that it says that it corresponds to the sign of the wave functions, but I would like to know if this color corresponds to the spin quantum number or if I have misunderstood…
Hello dear community, I have a question about molecular orbital theory. According to it, when two atomic orbitals bond, two molecular orbitals are created: a bonding orbital and an antibonding orbital. My textbook states: And now my question: Do the bonding and antibonding MOs occur simultaneously, and one of them is simply unoccupied, or does…
Hello, I have my advanced chemistry exam coming up soon and wanted to ask how amino acids are generally hybridized according to valence bond theory. My teacher said the amino group is sp3 hybridized, meaning the nitrogen atom, and thus it would be tetrahedral, but why? I was thinking more pyramidal planar due to the…
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According to MO theory, Og2 +234 would have a bond order of 1. For my example, I will make it even clearer/more extreme and say we consider Og2 +235 in which only a single electron would occupy the bonding sigma orbital. According to mo theory alone, a bond with bond order 1/2 would result here,…
I'm currently learning about covalent bonds using the corresponding VB and MO theories, and I'm wondering how the VB theory would explain the bonding in He2+? With MO theory, one could simply say that the bonding sigma orbital is occupied by an electron pair and the antibonding sigma orbital is occupied by the third electron,…