Chemistry · Chemical Bonding

JEE Main 2024 — 30 January, Shift 1 — Question 72

The total number of molecular orbitals formed from 2 s and 2 p atomic orbitals of a diatomic molecule

Answer: 8

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Two molecular orbitals $\sigma 2 \mathrm{~s}$ and $\sigma * 2 \mathrm{~s}$ .

Six molecular orbitals $\sigma 2 \mathrm{p}_{\mathrm{z}}$ and $\sigma * 2 \mathrm{p}_{\mathrm{z}}$ .

$\pi 2 \mathrm{p}_{\mathrm{x}}, \pi 2 \mathrm{p}_{\mathrm{y}}$ and $\pi * 2 \mathrm{p}_{\mathrm{x}}, \pi^{*} 2 \mathrm{p}_{\mathrm{y}}$

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