Given below are two statements :
Statement(I) : Experimentally determined oxygen-oxygen bond lengths in the O₃ are found to be same and the bond length is greater than that of a O = O (double bond) but less than that of a single (O – O) bond.
Statement (II) : The strong lone pair-lone pair repulsion between oxygen atoms is solely responsible for the fact that the bond length in ozone is smaller than that of a double bond (O=O) but more than that of a single bond (O – O).
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Statement I is false but Statement II is true

Statement I is true but Statement II is false

Both Statement I and Statement II are false

Both Statement I and Statement II are true

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

Due to resonance bond length is identical in ozone.
Therefore statement I is true and statement II is false

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