When is the bond order 0?
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When is the bond order 0?
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?
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?
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Re: When is the bond order 0?
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.
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Re: When is the bond order 0?
When there is no bond (not enough energy to do so), there would be a bond 0
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Re: When is the bond order 0?
(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.
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Re: When is the bond order 0?
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
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Re: When is the bond order 0?
There is no such thing as a bond order 0 because this simply means that there are no bonds.
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Re: When is the bond order 0?
Bond 0 would indicate that no existing stable bonds are being formed, meaning that this "bond" would not exist.
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Re: When is the bond order 0?
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.
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Re: When is the bond order 0?
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.
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