The energy level of a non-bonding orbital is typically in between the lower energy of a valence shell bonding orbital and the higher energy of a corresponding antibonding orbital.
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An example of a non-similar one is the non-bonding orbital of the allyl anion, whose electron density is concentrated on the first and third carbon atoms.
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The distortion of the hydrogen atoms from the planar CH 3 + to the tetrahedral CH 3-Nu causes a stabilization of the C-Nu bonding orbital, ?.
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This is a result of the relatively large electron and internuclear repulsions, combined with a relatively small overlap of bonding orbitals arising due to the small size of the atoms.
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With lanthanide compounds where extra electrons enter the anti-bonding orbitals of an ion there can be a smaller band gap giving the compounds metal like properties such as lustre.
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Bonding orbitals formed from hybrid atomic orbitals may be considered as localised molecular orbitals, which can be formed from the delocalised orbitals of molecular orbital theory by an appropriate mathematical transformation.
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Each oxygen has 6 valence electrons, if it has a bond order of two, that means that each atoms makes a net contribution of two electrons to the bonding orbital.
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Non-classical ions can be defined as organic cations in which electron density of a filled bonding orbital is shared over three or more centers and contains some sigma-bond character.
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In the hyperconjugation model, the donation of electron density from the C H ? bonding orbital to the C F ? * antibonding orbital is considered the source of stabilization in the gauche isomer.
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These structures cause zinc to have two bonding d-orbitals and four low-lying non-bonding d-orbitals ( see non-bonding orbital ), which are available for binding.
