Does NO form a dimer?

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anonymous · Answer

Somebody! please help. cause I have another Q to ask, and can't do that until I get the answer to this and close it!

anonymous · Answer

@BluFoot

anonymous · Answer

Google is your friend. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define+dimer Are N and O identical?

anonymous · Answer

No! im asking whether one NO molecule joins with another one to form a dimer of NO molecules. Not whether and N and O join together to form a dimer!

anonymous · Answer

Oh. NO it doesn't :P

anonymous · Answer

Okay. just confused because NO2 also has an odd electron. But it does form a dimer. Also, I read somewhere that NO cannot form a dimer cause of MO theory. But somewhere else i read about the colour of its dimer! Confused! And I did google it. :-P NO satisfactory result though.

aaronq · Answer

"Nitric oxide dimers (NO)2 are formed when nitric oxide is cooled, liquified, or frozen. In the gas phase dimer the NO monomers are bound by 710 +/- 40 cm^-1" http://www.chem.uregina.ca/~east/ONNOelec.pdf

anonymous · Answer

Thanks a lot, @aaronq. Exactly what I needed.