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The antibonding orbital is more strongly antibonding than the corresponding bonding orbital is bonding. Explain. ​

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Answered by nikithavinoth
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s-atomic orbitals overlap with greater extent and therefore energy gap between bonding and anti bonding molecular orbitals is maximum. thus anti bonding orbital is more anti bonding. In case of p-orbitals the overlapping is restricted to some angles in space and therefore overlapping is not drastic.

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