{"id":553420,"date":"2023-05-11T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T17:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/question\/calculate-the-bond-order-of-n2-o2-o2-and-o2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:57:29","slug":"calculate-the-bond-order-of-n2-o2-o2-and-o2","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/question\/chemistry\/calculate-the-bond-order-of-n2-o2-o2-and-o2\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculate the bond order of N2, O2, O2+, and O2-."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Calculate the bond order of N2, O2, O2+, and O2-.","custom_permalink":"question\/chemistry\/calculate-the-bond-order-of-n2-o2-o2-and-o2\/"},"categories":[],"acf":{"question":"<p><span>Calculate the bond order of N<sub>2<\/sub>, O<sub>2<\/sub>, O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup>, and O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>-<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>","options":null,"solution":"<p>The bond order of a molecule can be calculated using the following formula:<\/p><p>Bond order = (number of bonding electrons - number of anti-bonding electrons) \/ 2.<\/p><p>where a bonding electron is an electron present in a bonding orbital, and an anti-bonding electron is an electron present in an anti-bonding orbital.<\/p><ul><li>N<sub>2<\/sub> has 14 valence electrons, with 6 electrons in the bonding orbitals and 4 electrons in the anti-bonding orbitals. Bond order of N<sub>2<\/sub> = (6 - 4) \/ 2 = 1<\/li><li>O<sub>2<\/sub> has 16 valence electrons, with 8 electrons in the bonding orbitals and 4 electrons in the anti-bonding orbitals. Bond order of O<sub>2<\/sub> = (8 - 4) \/ 2 = 2<\/li><li>O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>+ <\/sup>has lost an electron, so it has 15 valence electrons. There are 8 electrons in the bonding orbitals and 3 electrons in the anti-bonding orbitals. Bond order of O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup> = (8 - 3) \/ 2 = 2.5<\/li><li>O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>-<\/sup> has gained an electron, so it has 17 valence electrons. There are 8 electrons in the bonding orbitals and 5 electrons in the anti-bonding orbitals. Bond order of O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>-<\/sup> = (8 - 5) \/ 2 = 1.5<\/li><\/ul><p>Therefore, the bond order of N<sub>2 <\/sub>is 1, the bond order of O<sub>2<\/sub> is 2, the bond order of O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>+<\/sup> is 2.5, and the bond order of O<sub>2<\/sub><sup>-<\/sup> is 1.5.<\/p>","subject":"Chemistry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Calculate the bond order of N2, O2, O2+, and O2-. - Infinity Learn by Sri Chaitanya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Calculate the bond order of N2, O2, O2+, and O2-.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/question\/chemistry\/calculate-the-bond-order-of-n2-o2-o2-and-o2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Calculate the bond order of N2, O2, O2+, and O2-. - 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