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COMEDK · Chemistry · 2. Structure of Atom

The number of nodal planes present in \(\sigma^{*} s\)-antibonding orbital is

  1. A 1
  2. B 2
  3. C 0
  4. D 3
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(A) 1

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The number of nodal planes in \(\sigma s\)-antibonding orbital is one. The \(\sigma\) * orbital has nodal plane between nuclei and perpendicular to internuclear axis. As most of electron density is located away from the space between the nuclei, as a result of which there is a…