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JEE Main Chemistry question

ChemistryChemical Bonding and Molecular StructureJEE Main

Find the number of orbitals involved in the formation of hybrid orbitals on the central oxygen atom in .

Answer: 3

Solution

The central O in ozone has 2 bond pairs (to the terminal O atoms, via the delocalised resonance structure)

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