If one were to try to draw the simplest Lewis structure for molecular oxygen, the result might be t…

If one were to try to draw the simplest Lewis structure for molecular oxygen, the result might be the following (♢=0 : However, it is known from the properties of molecular oxygen and experiments that O_2 contains two unpaired electrons, and therefore, the Lewis structure above is incorrect. To understand the structure of O_2, it is necessary to employ a molecular orbical representation. To do so, we will need to recall (1) the shapes of bonding and antibonding σand πmolecular orbitals, ( 2 ) that each orbital can contain a maximum of two electrons, (3) that molecular oxygen has 16 electrons in total, and ( 4 ) that the two unpaired electrons in oxygen occupy separate degenerate (equal-chergy) orbitals. Now, open the molecular model on the book #x27;s website for oxygen and examine its molecular orbitals in sequence from the HOMO-7 orbital to the LUMO. (HOMO-7 means the seventh orbital in energy below the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO), HOMO-6 means the sixth below the HOMO, and so forth.] Orbitals HOMO-7 through HOMO-4 represent the σ1 s, σ1 s #x27; , σ2 s, and σ2 s^* orbitals, respectively, each containing a pair of electrons (a) What type of orbital is represented by HOMO- 3 and HOMO-2? (Hint: What types of orbitals are possible for second-row elements like oxygen, and which orbitals have already been used?) (b) What type of orbital is HOMO-I? [Hint: The σ2 s and σ2 s^* orbitals are already filled, as are the HOMO- 3 and HOMO-2 orbitals identified in part (a). What bonding orbital remains?] (c) The orbitals designated HOMO and LUMO in O, have the same energy (they are degenerate), and each contains one of the unpaired electrons of the oxygen molecule. What type of orbitals are these?.

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