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Offline hope35

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Determining bond order of ozone
« on: June 28, 2010, 01:56:01 AM »
Not sure if this is a physical chemistry question, but it was asked in a physical chemistry course. So I'm given experimental values of:

O-O bond in HOOH (single bond)               : 1.49A
O-O bond in O2                                         :1.21A
O-O bond in O3                                         : 1.28A
O-O-O bond angle in O3                             :116 degree.

From this I'm suppose to determine the bond order of ozone. I'm not sure how. Really confuse. Can someone help

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Re: Determining bond order of ozone
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2010, 02:37:11 AM »
Draw two Lesis structures and calculate an arithmetic mean
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