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No, when covalent bonds are formed, firstly the bonding orbitals prefer to overlap in linear method in which the highest volume of the overlap, and releases a higher energy, rather than partially overlapping. The linear overlap creates a sigma bond whereas a partial overlap creates a pi bond. Therefore a pi bond never exists without a corresponding sigma bond.

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