Question

What is the bond order of B2+? What is the bond order of B2+? @Chemistry

Answer 1

ahh we just learned this is chem bond order is the (number of bonds - number of anti bonds)/2

Answer 2

my professor taught us a little diagram to solve this

Answer 3

i think it looked something like that

Answer 4

certain line represent bonds and certain lines anti bonds..

Answer 5

you fill each line with two electrons and can figure out how many electron pairs are in each.. if one is half filled i think you count it as a half

Answer 6

http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/39_diatomics/diatomics.html