When is the bond order 0?

[Ruth Rosales 3D]

Saw the post about bond order.

I thought bond order was only 1, 2, and 3. How can I determine that the bond order is 0, wouldn't that mean that is not bonded at all?

[Hannah Alltucker 3L]

Normally if something has a bond order of 0 it is very unstable and can't exist. It is really just saying that no bond can be formed, and thus you get 0. I don't think we will be dealing with any unstable molecules in this class, so just sticking to single, double, and triple bonds should be fine.

[Aditya Desai 1A]

what you said is right; there is no bond. sort of like He2.

[Wenhan Li_3d]

When there is no bond (not enough energy to do so), there would be a bond 0

[Michelle Argueta 1E]

A bond order of 0 indicates that there is no existent bond.

[905701360]

Bond order is 0 when there are no bonds.

[Vanessa Wiratmo 3k]

(Number of bonding electrons - number of anti bonding electron)/2 is the equation to figure out bond order. If this equation equaled zero, that means that there is no bond formed because there would be the same number of bonding electrons and anti-bonding electrons. This would be highly unstable and therefore would not form bonds.

[Rebecca Preusch 2C]

A bond order of 0 does not exist because it implies there is no bond.

[MiaRosati3L]

Everyone has provided solid explanations for this question, but if anyone needs additional clarification, I found a video on this topic that I found helpful for review purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bV1HA48JSw

[Narin Maisha 2H]

There is no such thing as a bond order 0 because this simply means that there are no bonds.

[madelyn kelly 1I]

Bond 0 would indicate that no existing stable bonds are being formed, meaning that this "bond" would not exist.

[emmakvarnell]

Yes, a bond order of zero means the bond between two atoms doesn't exist. This is because bond order of 1 starts at a single bond, and so on, so there can't be a 0 bond.

[Alejandro Oliva 2F]

We can assume that with a bond order of 0, no bond is ever occurring in this hypothetical molecule. This hypothetical molecule would not even exist in reality.

[Daniel Tabibian 3K]

A bond order of 0 means that there is no bond.