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JEE Main Chemistry question

ChemistryChemical Bonding and Molecular StructureJEE Main

Oxygen is paramagnetic. The unpaired electrons are present in:

Answer: (A)

Solution

By molecular orbital theory, 's two unpaired electrons occupy its degenerate (antibonding) molecular orbitals.

Question ID VK-146624