Carbon monoxide is produced by incomplete combustion of
fossil f...

Question

Carbon monoxide is produced by incomplete combustion of 
fossil fuels. 
(a) Give the electron configuration for the valence molecular 
orbitals of CO. The orbitals have the same energy 
order as those of the N2 molecule.

Accepted Answer

Hello. Everyone in this video we're trying to do is turn in the advanced molecular orbital electric configuration of our molecule N. O. Basically drawing out the M. O. Diagram for this. So we know that our nitrogen That's in group 8 Mean that we'll have five fans electrons per atom and then for option that's going to be in group six a. So that's going to give us six electrons per atom. So going from bottom to top here by increasing energy. So we're dealing here with sigma to us. And of course our antibiotics, sigma start to us. They'll have our two lines like so that's going to be Pi two p. Or apologize we have A Sigma three p. Then we have our PIN two p. Then we'll go ahead and deal with our pie star three P. Then we have our anti bonding sigma star three P. Again for a molecule we have five valence electrons from nitrogen and six electrons for auction. Five plus six equal to 11. So go ahead and add 11 electrons here. We'll have 123456789, 10 and 11. So here you can see that this is going to be the valence molecular electron configuration for nm

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